[BLOG] Some Sunday links

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• Architectuul looks at the photos and the architecture of Carlo Mollino, all curves.


• Centauri Dreams notes a remarkable piece of detective work, identifying candidate stars responsible for a close encounter that threw a planet of star HD 109606 into a distant eccentric orbit.


• John Holbo at Crooked Timber takes a second look at the "Historovox" concept raised by Corey Robin.


• D-Brief notes a study suggesting planets in close orbit of red dwarf stars could experience sufficient tectonic stresses from their star to remain geologically active.


• Far Outliers looks at how and why, in Calcutta, the poor were kept physically close to the rich.


• Gizmodo reports on a massive nuclear superbubble thousands of light-years wide in the heart of galaxy NGC 3079, with photos.


• Hornet Stories shares a shortlist of essential books by LGBTQ writers from the United Kingdom.


• JSTOR Daily notes how architect Mary Colter came up with ingenious buildings for the Grand Canyon that fit this unique environment.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money shares a compelling argument against the Electoral College.


• Marginal Revolution notes that Mormonism stands out among American religions as enjoying continued, if decelerating, growth.


• The NYR Daily considers if there is a point at which empathy becomes banal.


• Corey S. Powell writes at Out There about how the Spirit and Opportunity rovers were deeply meaningful surrogates for human minds on Mars.


• Justin Petrone at north! argues that MTV's The Real World set a precedent for individual people to be self-curating and self-creating their representations.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel notes the historic discovery of the cosmic neutrino background, a signal formed one second after the Big Bang.


• Frank Jacobs at Strange Maps shares a map showing the long train journey of Kim Jong-um across China to the recent summit in Hanoi.


• Towleroad notes that the Donald Duck comic is going to see a lesbian character for the first time.


• Window on Eurasia notes how a new Russian governmental process of optimization is undermining many small communities in rural Russia, a picture familiar to many in Canada, too.