[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

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• Acts of Minor Treason's Andrew Barton reacts to the series premiere of Orville, finding it oddly retrograde and unoriginal.


• Centauri Dreams shares Larry Klaes' article considering the impact of the 1956 classic Forbidden Planet on science and science fiction alike.


• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper wondering if it is by chance that Earth orbits a yellow dwarf, not a dimmer star.


• Drone360 shares a stunning video of a drone flying into Hurricane Irma.


• Hornet Stories celebrates the 10th anniversary of Chris Crocker's "Leave Britney Alone!" video. (It was important.)


• Lawyers, Guns and Money wonders if 16 years are long enough to let people move beyond taboo images, like those of the jumpers.


• The LRB Blog takes a look at the young Dreamers, students, who have been left scrambling by the repeal of DACA.


• The Map Room Blog notes how a Québec plan to name islands in the north created by hydro flooding after literature got complicated by issues of ethnicity and language.


• Marginal Revolution notes the rise of internal tourism in China, and soon, of Chinese tourists in the wider world.


• The NYR Daily has an interview arguing that the tendency to make consciousness aphysical or inexplicable is harmful to proper study.


• Roads and Kingdoms has a brief account of a good experience with Indonesian wine.


• Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell links to five reports about Syria. They are grim reading.