[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

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• Bruce Dorminey notes that a Brazilian startup hopes to send a Brazilian probe to lunar orbit, for astrobiological research.


• Far Outliers notes the scale of the Western aid funneled to the Soviet Union through Murmansk in the Second World War.


• Hornet Stories notes that Tarell Alvin McCraney, author of the play adapted into the stunning Moonlight, now has a new play set to premier on Brodway for the 2018-2019 season, Choir Boy.


• JSTOR Daily notes the conspiracy behind the sabotage that led to the destruction in 1916 of a munitions stockpile on Black Tom Island, of German spies with Irish and Indian nationalists.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money is critical of the false equivalence in journalism that, in 2016, placed Trump on a level with Hillary.


• The Map Room Blog notes that fitness app Strava can be used to detect the movements of soldiers (and others) around classified installations.
  
• Marginal Revolution links to a New York Times profile of World Bank president Jim Young Kim.


• Roads and Kingdoms talks about the joys of stuffed bread, paan, in Sri Lanka.


• Towleroad notes that a Russian gay couple whose marriage in Denmark was briefly recognized in Russia are now being persecuted.


• At Whatever, John Scalzi tells the story of his favourite teacher, Keith Johnson, and a man who happened to be gay. Would that all students could have been as lucky as Scalzi.


• Window on Eurasia notes that the pronatalist policies of the Putin regime, which have basically cash subsidies to parents, have not reversed underlying trends towards population decline.