[URBAN NOTE] Some Sunday links

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• Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly looks at a new movie and book celebrating the life of brave journalist Marie Colvin.


• Centauri Dreams looks at how the Spitzer telescope was able to constrain the size of 'Oumuamua.


• Crooked Timber asks a question about referenda. What are they good for? How can they be made to work effectively? The Brexit precedent is uncheering.


• The Dragon's Tales notes the delivery, by Europe, of the first service module for the Orion spacecraft.


• The Island Review shares Sylvia Warren's account of her visit to the Frioul archipelago, off the coast of Provence.


• JSTOR Daily reports on the perhaps surprisingly thriving culture of fandom that prevailed in the 19th century, with fans around the world devoting their energies to stars.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money suggests that the Democratic Party is grooming Beto O'Rourke to be a presidential candidate in 2020. Why not?


• Marginal Revolution links to a report suggesting that the pace of scientific advancement is slowing down, with greater investments in scientific research producing increasingly fewer fundamental breakthroughs.


• Carole Cadwalladr argues at the NYR Daily that the United Kingdom needs its own Mueller to get to the bottom of the scandals and mysteries surrounding Brexit.


• Casey Dreier at the Planetary Society Blog notes how the support of Texan Republican Congressman John Culberson for the exploration of Europa was used by his opponents as part of a successful attack.


• Drew Rowsome loves the movie Who Will Save The Roses?, with its story about the love of two older gay men for each other in hard times.


• Ilya Somin at the Volokh Conspiracy argues that the Spiderman Rule--"With great power comes great responsibility"--should be remembered by practitioners of constitutional law.


• Window on Eurasia considers what a proposed Russian sale of some of the Kuril Islands to Japan might imply about official attitudes towards territorial claims.


• Starting from Calvin and Hobbes, Arnold Zwicky considers rattles, death rattles and otherwise.

Comments

Cadwalladr on Brexit

[dewline]

She's absolutely right. The UK and EU need to do something Mueller-like about how Brexit happened the way it has. And lay charges as needed. Against whomever has to be charged.