[BLOG] Some Friday links

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• Bad Astronomy's Phil Plait notes new research on where the sun is located within the Milky Way Galaxy.


• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly considers the value of slow fashion.


• Centauri Dreams notes the different gas giants that our early methods have yet to pick up.


• Crooked Timber shares a lovely photo looking back at Venice from across its lagoon.


• D-Brief notes that upcoming space telescopes might find hundreds of rogue planets thanks to microlensing.


• io9 notes that Marvel will soon be producing Warhammer40K comics.


• The Island Review shares some poetry and photography by Ken Cockburn inspired by the Isle of Jura.


• JSTOR Daily notes that different humpback whale groups have different songs, different cultures.


• Language Hat tries to find the meaning of the odd Soviet Yiddish word "kolvirt".


• Paul Campos at Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at the history of Elizabeth Warren as a law teacher.


• Map Room Blog shares information from Google Maps about its use of data.


• Marginal Revolution notes that in 2016, not a single child born in the United Kingdom was given the name Nigel.


• Peter Watts talks about AI and what else he is doing.


• The NYR Daily marked the centennial of a horrible massacre of African-Americans centered on the Arkansas community of Elaine.


• Emily Margolis at the Planetary Society Blog looks at how the Apollo moon missions helped galvanize tourism in Florida.


• Noel Maurer at The Power and the Money looks at the constitutional crisis in Peru.


• Drew Rowsome takes a look at A Streetcar Named Desire.


• Peter Rukavina looks at a spreadsheet revealing the distribution of PEI public servants.


• Spacing reviews a book imagining how small communities can rebuild themselves in neoliberalism.


• Towleroad shares the criticism of Christine and the Queens of the allegedly opportunistic use of queer culture by Taylor Swift.


• Understanding Society considers, sociologically, the way artifacts work.


• The Volokh Conspiracy argues that the 70th anniversary of the foundation of the People's Republic of China should be a day of mourning, on account of the high human toll of the PRC.


• Window on Eurasia suggests the Russian generation of the 1970s was too small to create lasting change.


• Arnold Zwicky looks at how underwear ads can be quite sexualized.