[BLOG] Some Friday links

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• Architectuul considers the humanizing potential of brutalism in the context of a London filled with impersonal skyscrapers.


• Bad Astronomer Phil Plait looks at the ways the habitable-zone super-Earths of K2-18 reveal our solar system to be exceptional.


• Centauri Dreams notes evidence for active plate tectonics in the ice crust of Europa, suggesting an ocean being replenished with nutrients and possibly suitable for life.


• D-Brief notes the sourcing of the iron in the artifacts of the Bronze Act in meteorites.


• Daily JSTOR reports on how Hollywood coped during the Red Scare of the 1950s.


• Dangerous Minds notes the exciting discovery of tapes recording Devo jamming with David Bowie and Brian Eno.


• Cody Delistraty considers if the restitution of artworks looted from once-colonized territories might not be a cheap substitute for deeper changes.


• Language Hat shares a student essay comparing, during the First World War, the United States' campaign against German and the German campaign against French.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money argues against a British nostalgia for monarchy and empire that overlooks the real injustices perpetrated at Britain's imperial peak.


• Lingua Franca notes the remarkable power of the #metoo movement.


• The LRB Blog notes the exceptional complexity of the issue of Jerusalem, especially after Trump's actions.


• The Map Room Blog shares links to a variety of maps of the Halifax Explosion and its effects.


• The NYR Daily looks at some of the legacies of the Salvadoran civil war.


• Peter Watts makes an argument in favour of the dystopia in contemporary science fiction.


• The Planetary Society Blog's Emily Lakdawalla reports that South Korea is planning its first Moon expedition for 2020.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer notes that Argentina, at its peak, offered as good or even better chances for social mobility for immigrants than the United States.


• Peter Rukavina shares a photograph showing the electronic system used by defunct Charlottetown nightclub Myron's for dispensing drinks.


• Towleroad reports on one consequence of Australia's acceptance of gay marriage: Will Calvin Harris remix the Spice Girls song "2 Become 1", as he promised?


• Window on Eurasia shares a list of eight reasons explaining why Finland was unique in the former Russian Empire in maintaining its independence from Moscow.