[BLOG] Some Sunday links

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• Adam Fish at anthro{dendum} shares a new take on the atmosphere, as a common good.


• Bad Astronomer Phil Plait shares a photo of Earth taken from a hundred million kilometres away by the OSIRIS-REx probe.


• The Crux tells the story of how the first exoplanets were found.


• D-Brief notes that life could be possible on a planet orbiting a supermassive black hole, assuming it could deal with the blueshifting.


• io9 looks at the latest bold move of Archie Comics.


• JSTOR Daily explores cleaning stations, where small fish clean larger ones.


• Dan Nexon at Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at the role China seeks to play in a remade international order.


• The Map Room Blog looks at the new upcoming national atlas of Estonia.


• Marginal Revolution touches on the great ambition of Louis XIV for a global empire.


• Steve Baker of The Numerati shares photos from his recent trip to Spain.


• Anya Schiffrin at the NRY Daily explains how American journalist Varian Fry helped her family, and others, escape the Nazis.


• Drew Rowsome reviews the classic movie The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.


• Frank Jacobs at Strange Maps shares a map looking at the barriers put up by the high-income world to people moving from outside.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel answers the complex question of how, exactly, the density of a black hole can be measured.


• John Scalzi at Whatever reviews Gemini Man. Was the high frame rate worth it?


• Window on Eurasia notes the deep hostility of Tuvins towards a large Russian population in Tuva.


• Arnold Zwicky considers the existential question of self-aware cartoon characters.