[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Crux takes a look at some of the lost moons of the early solar system, including those of Jupiter, Saturn inward of Titan, and Neptune before its encounter with Triton.


• D-Brief notes that, in its relatively warm and watery youth, the Moon could conceivably have supported life.


• Dangerous Minds shares photos, and a precise, of the ball--the Diner de Têtes Surrealistes--thrown in 1972 by the Baroness Marie-Hélène de Rothschild and her husband Guy at the Château de Ferrières outside of Paris.


• Jonathan Wynn at the Everyday Sociology Blog takes a look at how students' race can complicate the act of studying abroad. http://www.everydaysociologyblog.com/2018/07/race-and-studying-abroad.html
  
• Imageo notes the heat wave aggravating forest fires in California and Oregon.


• JSTOR Daily considers if, perhaps, the Ford Pinto received an undeservedly negative reputation from its contemporaries.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money links to a Matthew Yglesias analysis about the usability of swing voters in the American context.


• At the LRB Blog, Anne Orford draws from the Trump-Putin summit in Helsinki the argument that international politics is much too important to be decided by two men alone and their translators.


• The Map Room Blog shares some remarkable infrared images of Titan, looking beneath that world's clouds.


• Marginal Revolution notes one report suggesting that oil revenues could lead to a tripling of the size of the GDP of Guyana in five years.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel illustrates the discovery of an ancient galaxy almost entirely absorbed into the Andromeda Galaxy, M32p.


• Towleroad reviews the new Broadway play Straight White Men, which has an interesting take on this hitherto-dominant portion of North American society.