[BLOG] Some Thursday links

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• Architectuul reports on its Forgotten Masterpieces campaign, aiming to promote overlooked and endangered works of 20th century architecture.


• Bad Astronomer Phil Plait reports on how the mass of the Milky Way Galaxy has just now been calculated at 1.54 trillion solar masses.


• blogTO reports that three thousand students at the University of Toronto apparently fund their education through sugar daddies.


• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly writes about how she found a new tribe at a journalism conference.


• Centauri Dreams notes that black hole starship engines count as a detectable technosignature for SETI searches.


• John Holbo at Crooked Timber considers the emotionalism of Peterson and Shapiro versus facts in the light of Plato.


• The Crux notes how, before settling the Moon, we have to first develop the techniques necessary for mining the Moon.


• D-Brief notes the threats posed by humanity to the ecosystems of Antarctica.


• Bruce Dorminey notes a proposal before NASA to dispatch a smallsat probe to asteroid Pallas.


• Andrew LePage at Drew Ex Machina takes a look at the first test flights, in the 1960s, of the reusable space plane the X-15.


• Far Outliers looks at the separation of Muslims from Hindus in Calcutta, and the subordination of the former to the latter.


• Gizmodo reports on an exciting new display of the Tyrannosaurus Rex at the American Museum of Natural History that features, finally, feathers.


• Keiran Healy crunches the numbers to notes how the hierarchy of academic institutions in the United States has scarcely changed over the previous century.


• Joe. My. God. notes that the 1971 marriage in Minnesota of Michael McConnell and Jack Baker has been officially recognized.


• JSTOR Daily takes a look at the overlooked radical politics of Frida Kahlo.


• Language Hat looks at the mysterious choice in names for the pre-Columbian Adena culture of North America. Why "Adena"?


• At Language Log, Victor Mair shares a post by a Chinese father who calls for a liberation of Chinese languages from their traditional script.


• Steve Attewell writes at Lawyers, Guns and Money about the history of the Marvel Universe's Hellfire Club, memorably created by Chris Claremont.


• Marginal Revolution shares a paper supporting the thesis of Jared Diamond about the importance of the axes of continents in explaining biological and cultural diffusion.


• The New APPS Blog reports on the complicated trajectory from Marx to Foucault.


• Rachel Aspden writes at the NYR Daily about the political economy of safari tours.


• Casey Dreier at the Planetary Society Blog notes a fiscal year 2020 proposal before NASA for a sample return mission to Mars.


• The Russian Demographics Blog notes that the Global Data Lab has just had a paper published in Nature on their database of subnational entities' rankings on the Human Development Index.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel argues that the new Trump budget for FY2020 would cause terrible damage to NASA.


• Window on Eurasia suggests that the Putin government's policies are driving more rural-to-urban migration in Russia.


• Frances Woolley writes at Worthwhile Canadian Initiative about the relationship, under the Ford government of Ontario, of age limits for professors with tenure.


• Arnold Zwicky considers the lovely clematis.