[BLOG] Some Saturday links

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• Architectuul reports on the critical walking tours of Istanbul offered by Nazlı Tümerdem.


• Centauri Dreams features a guest post from Alex Tolley considering the biotic potential of the subsurface ocean of Enceladus.


• The Crux reports on how paleontologist Susie Maidment tries to precisely date dinosaur sediments.


• D-Brief notes the success of a recent project aiming to map the far side of the Milky Way Galaxy.


• Cody Delistraty considers the relationship between the One Percent and magicians.


• Todd Schoepflin writes at the Everyday Sociology Blog about different sociological facts in time for the new school year.


• Gizmodo shares a lovely extended cartoon imagining what life on Europa, and other worlds with subsurface worlds, might look like.


• io9 features an interview with Annalee Newitz and Charlie Jane Anders on the intersection between science fiction writing and science writing.


• JSTOR Daily briefly considers the pros and cons of seabed mining.


• Marginal Revolution suggests that a stagnant economy could be seen as a sign of success, as the result of the exploitation of all potential for growth.


• The NYR Daily reports on the photographs of John Edmonds, a photographer specializing in images of queer black men.


• Frank Jacobs at Strange Maps shares a map of murders in Denmark, and an analysis of the facts behind this crime there.


• Window on Eurasia reports on an anti-Putin shaman in Buryatia.


• Arnold Zwicky reports on dreams of going back to school, NSFW and otherwise.