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rfmcdonald ([personal profile] rfmcdonald) wrote2018-01-23 01:59 pm

[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".