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rfmcdonald) wrote2018-01-23 01:59 pm
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[BLOG] Some Tuesday links
- 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".