[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Centauri Dreams notes how disk patterns in young planetary systems, like that of HD 141569A, can mimic planets.


• Drew Ex Machina examines Apollo 5, the first flight of the United States' lunar module.


• The Everyday Sociology Blog uses the infamous Janet Jackson "wardrobe malfunction" incident at Superbowl to examine the important concept of "misogynoir".


• Hornet Stories tells of Sipps, a gay bar in Mississippi, where a bartender took an urgent phone call from a mother wondering how to respond to her newly out son.


• JSTOR Daily tells of the 19th century French writer Chateaubriand, a man whose hugely influential book looking at the young United States turns out to have been mostly fake and substantially plagiarized.


• Marginal Revolution links to a debate over whether Google and Facebook are monopolies.


• Roads and Kingdoms celebrates the Caesar, that Canadian mixed drink.


• Drew Rowsome tells/u> of David Hockney at the Royal Academy of Arts, a documentary about two exhibitions of the man's work there. (I saw the retrospective at the Met. So good!)


• Towleroad goes into greater detail about explicitly gay K-Pop idol Holland, featuring the video for his first single "Neverland".