[BLOG] Some Thursday links

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• Bad Astronomer Phil Plait reports suggestions the bizarre happenings at Boyajian's Star could be explained by an evaporating exomoon.


• Centauri Dreams looks at how the crowdsourced evScope telescope is being used to support the Lucy mission to the Jupiter Trojans.


• The Crux explains the phenomenon of misophobia.


• D-Brief shares suggestions that an asteroid collision a half-billion years ago released clouds of dust that, reaching Earth, triggered the mid-Ordovician ice age.


• Dangerous Minds shares video of a perhaps underwhelming meeting of William Burroughs with Francis Bacon.


• io9 makes the case for more near-future space exploration movies like Ad Astra.


• Joe. My. God. notes a Trump retweeting of the lie that Ilham Omar celebrated on 9/11.


• JSTOR Daily notes how fire could destroy the stressed rainforest of the Amazon.


• Scott Lemieux at Lawyers, Guns and Money notes how few judges in the US have been impeached.


• The LRB Blog looks at how the already tenuous position of Haitians in the Bahamas has been worsened by Dorian.


• The Map Room Blog looks at the importance of the integrity of official maps in the era of Trump.


• Marginal Revolution looks at the political importance of marriage ceremonies in Lebanon and Gaza.


• Drew Rowsome interviews the Zakar Twins on the occasion of their new play Pray the Gay Away, playing in Toronto in October.


• The Russian Demographic Blog shares statistics on birthrates in the different provinces of the Russian Empire circa 1906.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel reports on the first experiment done on the photoelectric effect, revealing quantum mechanics.


• Window on Eurasia looks at growing anti-Chinese sentiments in Central Asia.


• Arnold Zwicky looks at "The Hurtful Dog", a Cyanide and Happiness cartoon.