[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Bad Astronomer Phil Plait notes how evidence of exoplanets can be found in a spectrum of Van Maanen's Star taken in 1917.


• blogTO notes that Michelle Obama is coming to visit Toronto.


• Dangerous Minds notes that someone has scanned in the copies of 1980s periodical The Twilight Zone Magazine.


• D-Brief notes the tens of thousands of genders of fungus.


• The Dragon's Gaze notes a paper calculating circumstellar habitable zones and orbits for planets of binary stars.


• The Frailest Thing's Michael Sacasas argues it is much too late to retroactively add ethical concerns to new technologies.


• Language Log notes the struggle of many to pronounce the name of the president of Catalonia, Carles Puigdemont.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes an alarming increase in mass shootings in the US over the past decades.


• The LRB Blog argues that a moral panic over "pop-up brothels" helps no one involved.


• Roads and Kingdoms reports on Zubaida Tariq, the Martha Stewart of Pakistan.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel likes the new Discovery episode. I wonder, though: hasn't Trek always been a bit science fantasy?
• Window on Eurasia argues Russian policies which marginalize non-Russian languages in education may produce blowback.