[BLOG] Some Friday links

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• Architectuul takes a look at "infrastructural scars", at geopolitically-inspired constructions like border fences and fortifications.


• Centauri Dreams notes what we can learn from 99942 Apophis during its 2029 close approach to Earth, just tens of thousands of kilometres away.


• D-Brief reports on the reactions of space artists to the photograph of the black hole at the heart of M87.


• Dangerous Minds shares the first recording of Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart.


• The Dragon's Tales notes that Germany has begun work on drafting laws to cover space mining.


• Gizmodo reports on what scientists have learned from the imaging of a very recent impact of an asteroid on the near side of the Moon.


• io9 makes the case that Star Trek: Discovery should try to tackle climate change.


• Joe. My. God. notes that Verizon is seeking a buyer for Tumblr. (Wouldn't it be funny if it was bought, as other reports suggest might be possible, by Pornhub?)


• JSTOR Daily reports on a 1910 examination of medical schools that, among other things, shut down all but two African-American medical schools with lasting consequences for African-American health.


• Language Log asks why "Beijing" is commonly pronounced as "Beizhing".


• Simon Balto asks at Lawyers, Guns and Money why the murder of Justine Ruszczyk by a Minneapolis policeman is treated more seriously than other police killings, just because she was white and the cop was black. All victims deserve the same attention.


• Russell Darnley at Maximos62 shares a video of the frieze of the Parthenon.


• The NYR Daily responds to the 1979 television adaptation of the Primo Levi novel Christ Stopped at Eboli, an examination of (among other things) the problems of development.


• Peter Rukavina is entirely right about the practical uselessness of QR codes.


• Daniel Little at Understanding Society points readers towards the study of organizations, concentrating on Charles Perrow.


• Window on Eurasia notes the argument of one Russian commentator that Russia should offer to extend citizenship en masse not only to Ukrainians but to Belarusians, the better to undermine independent Belarus.


• Arnold Zwicky shares photos of some of his flourishing flowers, as his home of Palo Alto enters a California summer.