[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

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• Charlie Stross hosts at Antipope another discussion thread examining Brexit.


• Architectuul takes a look at five overlooked mid-20th century architects.


• Bad Astronomy shares a satellite photo of auroras at night over the city lights of the Great Lakes basin and something else, too.


• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly writes about the directions love has taken her, and wonders where it might have taken her readers.


• Centauri Dreams reports on the Hayabusa 2 impactor on asteroid Ryugu.


• John Quiggin at Crooked Timber takes issue with the claims of Steven Pinker about nuclear power.


• D-Brief notes the detection, in remarkable detail, of a brilliant exocomet at Beta Pictoris.


• The Dragon's Tales considers the possibility that China might be building a military base in Cambodia.


• Karen Sternheimer writes at the Everyday Sociology Blog about the importance of small social cues, easily overlookable tough they are.


• Far Outliers notes the role of Japan's imperial couple, Akihito and Michiko, in post-war Japan.


• L.M. Sacasas at The Frailest Thing writes about the potential inadequacy of talking about values.


• Gizmodo notes a new study suggesting the surprising and potentially dangerous diversity of bacteria present on the International Space Station.


• Mark Graham shares a link to a paper, and its abstract, examining what might come of the creation of a planetary labour market through the gig economy.


• Hornet Stories takes a look at Red Ribbon Blues, a 1995 AIDS-themed film starring RuPaul.


• io9 notes that Guillermo del Toro and Cornelia Funke are co-writing a Pan's Labyrinth novel scheduled for release later this year.


• Joe. My. God. notes a new study suggesting 20% of LGBTQ Americans live in rural areas.


• JSTOR Daily takes a look at the Bluestockings, the grouping of 18th century women in England who were noteworthy scholars and writers.


• Language Hat notes an ambitious new historical dictionary of the Arabic language being created by the emirate of Sharjah.


• Language Log examines, in the aftermath of a discussion of trolls, different cultures' terms for different sorts of arguments.


• Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns and Money notes how early forestry in the United States was inspired by socialist ideals.


• The Map Room Blog links to a map showing the different national parks of the United Kingdom.


• Alex Tabarrok at Marginal Revolution, noting the new findings from the Chixculub impact, notes how monitoring asteroids to prevent like catastrophes in the future has to be a high priority.


• The New APPS Blog explains how data, by its very nature, is so easily made into a commodity.


• The NYR Daily considers the future of the humanities in a world where higher education is becoming preoccupied by STEM.


• Corey S. Powell at Out There interviews Bear Grylls about the making of his new documentary series Hostile Planet.


• Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw considers the pleasures of birds and of birdwatching.


• Jason C. Davis at the Planetary Society Blog noted the arrival of the Beresheet probe in lunar orbit.


• Drew Rowsome reviews the new amazing-sounding play Angelique at the Factory Theatre.


• The Russian Demographics Blog notes a paper that makes the point of there being no automatic relationship between greater gender equality and increases in fertility.


• The Signal looks at how the Library of Congress has made use of the BagIt programming language in its archiving of data.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel comes up with questions to ask plausible visitors from other universes.


• Strange Company notes the mysterious deaths visited on three members of a British family in the early 20th century. Who was the murderer? Was there even a crime?


• Towleroad notes the activists, including Canadian-born playwright Jordan Tannahill, who disrupted a high tea at the Dorchester Hotel in London over the homophobic law passed by its owner, the Sultan of Brunei.


• Window on Eurasia notes rising instability in Ingushetia.


• Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell notes that the British surveillance of Huawei is revealing the sorts of problems that must be present in scrutiny-less Facebook, too.