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Bad Astronomy notes the very odd structure of galaxy NGC 2775.

Dangerous Minds reports on the 1987 riot by punks that wrecked a Seattle ferry.

Bruce Dorminey reports on a new suggestion from NASA that the massive dust towers of Mars have helped dry out that world over eons.

The Everyday Sociology Blog looks at how changing technologies have led to younger people spending more social capital on maintaining relationships with friends over family.

This forum hosted at Gizmodo considers the likely future causes of death of people in coming decades.

In Media Res' Russell Arben Fox reports on the debate in Wichita on what to do with the Century II performance space.

Joe. My. God. reports on the decision of Hungary to drop out of Eurovision, apparently because of its leaders' homophobia.

JSTOR Daily reports on the debunking of the odd theory that the animals and people of the Americas were degenerate dwarfs.

Language Hat reports on how the classics can be served by different sorts of translation.

Robert Farley at Lawyers, Guns and Money considers how Trump's liberation of war criminals relates to folk theories about just wars.

The LRB Blog reports from the ground in the Scotland riding of East Dunbartonshire.

Marginal Revolution shares a paper suggesting that, contrary to much opinion, social media might actually hinder the spread of right-wing populism.

The NYR Daily looks at the nature of the proxy fighters in Syria of Turkey. Who are they?

Drew Rowsome interviews Sensational Sugarbum, star of--among other things--the latest Ross Petty holiday farce.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains why we still need to be able to conduct astronomy from the Earth.

Strange Maps explains the odd division of Europe between east and west, as defined by different subspecies of mice.

Window on Eurasia notes how Chinese apparently group Uighurs in together with other Central Asians of similar language and religion.

Arnold Zwicky explores the concept of onomatomania.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait observes that a team may have discovered the elusive neutron star produced by Supernova 1987A, hidden behind a cloud of dust.

Chris Bertram at Crooked Timber shares a photo he made via the time-consuming 19th century wet-plate collodion method.

Drew Ex Machina's Andrew LePage looks at the Apollo 12 visit to the Surveyor 3 site to, among other things, see what it might suggest about future space archeology.

Karen Sternheimer at the Everyday Sociology Blog looks at the story of rural poverty facing a family in Waverly, Ohio, observing how it is a systemic issue.

George Dvorsky at Gizmodo looks at how Mars' Jezero crater seems to have had a past relatively friendly to life, good for the next NASA rover.

Joe. My. God. reports on the latest ignorance displayed by Donald Trump Jr. on Twitter, this time regarding HIV.

JSTOR Daily looks at how Climategate was used to undermine popular opinion on climate change.

Language Hat links to an article explaining why so many works of classical literature were lost, among other things not making it onto school curricula.

Language Log shares a photo of a Muji eraser with an odd English label.

Scott Lemieux at Lawyers, Guns and Money suggests Pete Buttigieg faces a campaign-limiting ceiling to his support among Democrats.

The LRB Blog argues that Macron's blocking of EU membership possibilities for the western Balkans is a terrible mistake.

The Map Room Blog shares a map depicting regional variations in Canada towards anthropogenic climate change. Despite data issues, the overall trend of oil-producing regions being skeptical is clear.

Marginal Revolution links to a paper examining the slowing pace of labour mobility in the US, suggesting that home attachment is a key factor.

Frederic Wehrey at the NYR Daily tells the story of Knud Holmboe, a Danish journalist who came to learn about the Arab world working against Italy in Libya.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains why thermodynamics does not explain our perception of time.

Understanding Society's Dan Little looks at Electronic Health Records and how they can lead to medical mistakes.

Whatever's John Scalzi shares a remarkable photo of the night sky he took using the astrophotography mode on his Pixel 4 phone.

Window on Eurasia shares an opinion that the Intermarium countries, between Germany and Russia, can no longer count on the US and need to organize in their self-defense.

Arnold Zwicky shares a photo of his handsome late partner Jacques Transue, taken as a college student.

(A day late, I know; I crashed after work yesterday.)

Antipope's Charlie Stross has a thought experiment: If you were superwealthy and guaranteed to live a long health life, how would you try to deal with the consequence of economic inequality?

Vikas Charma at Architectuul takes a look at the different factors that go into height in buildings.

Bad Astronomy notes S5-HVS1, a star flung out of the Milky Way Galaxy by Sagittarius A* at 1755 kilometres per second.

The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly shares photos from two Manhattan walks of hers, taken in non-famous areas.

Centauri Dreams looks at habitability for red dwarf exoplanets. Stellar activity matters.

Maria Farrell at Crooked Timber shares words from a manifesto about data protection in the EU.

Dangerous Minds shares photos from Los Angeles punks and mods and others in the 1980s.

Bruce Dorminey notes a ESA report suggesting crew hibernation could make trips to Mars easier.

Gizmodo notes that the Hayabusa2 probe of Japan is returning from asteroid Ryugu with a sample.

Imageo shares photos of the disastrous fires in Australia from space.

Information is Beautiful reports on winners of the Information is Beautiful Awards for 2019, for good infographics.

JSTOR Daily explains how local television stations made the ironic viewing of bad movies a thing.

Kotaku reports on the last days of Kawasaki Warehouse, an arcade in Japan patterned on the demolished Walled City of Kowloon.

Language Hat notes how translation mistakes led to the star Beta Cygni gaining the Arabic name Albireo.

Language Log reports on a unique Cantonese name of a restaurant in Hong Kong.

Robert Farley at Lawyers, Guns and Money links to an analysis of his suggesting the military of India is increasingly hard-pressed to counterbalance China.

The LRB Blog notes the catastrophe of Venice.

Marginal Revolution notes a paper suggesting states would do well not to place their capitals too far away from major population centres.

Justin Petrone at North! remarks on a set of old apple preserves.

The NYR Daily looks at how the west and the east of the European Union are divided by different conceptions of national identity.

Jim Belshaw at Personal Reflections reports from his town of Armidale as the smoke from the Australian wildfires surrounds all. The photos are shocking.

Emily Lakdawalla at the Planetary Society Blog lists some books about space suitable for children.

Drew Rowsome reviews the Canadian film music stand, inspired by the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike.

The Russian Demographics Blog shares a paper noting that, in Switzerland, parenthood does not make people happy.

The Signal notes that 1.7 million phone book pages have been scanned into the records of the Library of Congress.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains the concept of multi-messenger astronomy and why it points the way forward for studies of astrophysics.

Strange Maps looks at how a majority of students in the United States attend diverse schools, and where.

Strange Company explores the mysterious death of Marc-Antoine Calas, whose death triggered the persecution of Huguenots and resulted in the mobilization of Enlightenment figures like Voltaire against the state. What happened?

Towleroad hosts a critical, perhaps disappointed, review of the major gay play The Inheritance.

Understanding Society's Daniel Little looks at the power of individual people in political hierarchies.

Window on Eurasia shares an opinion piece noting how many threats to the Russian language have come from its association with unpopular actions by Russia.

Arnold Zwicky explores queens as various as Elizabeth I and Adore Delano.

Architectuul celebrates the life and achievements of furniture designer Florence Basset Knoll.

Bad Astronomy notes the remarkably detailed 3d simulation of a solar flare.

At Crooked Timber, John Holbo engages with Corey Robin's article in The New Yorker on the question of why people moving politically from right to left are less prominent than counterparts moving from left to right.

Far Outliers takes a look at the rise and the fall of the international silk trade of China, from Roman times to the 20th century.

At The Frailest Thing, L.M. Sacasas writes about the importance of listening to observers at the "hinges", at the moments when things are changing.

Internet geographer Mark Graham links to a new chapters making the argument that cyberspace is not a novel new territory.

Language Log takes a look at a possible change in the representation of vocal fry as demonstrated in Doonesbury.

Lawyers, Guns and Money considers the background to the possible 2020 presidential bid of ex-Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz.

Marginal Revolution's Alex Tabarrok looks at a history of Aleppo that emphasizes the ancient city's history of catastrophes.

Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw takes issue with an online map highlighting factory farmers created by pressure group Aussie Farms. How meaningful is it, for starters?

The Russian Demographics Blog notes the timetable of the introduction of syphillis to Poland-Lithuania in the 1490s.

Window on Eurasia looks at Russian population prospects, noting the low fertility among the small cohort of women born in the 1990s.

Arnold Zwicky starts by sharing beautiful paintings and photos of tulips, and ends with a meditation on Crimean Gothic.

D-Brief suggests that, in an era of climate change, waves of simultaneous wildfires may be the new normal in California.

The Dragon's Tales shares some news items looking at the history of the Precambrian Earth and of ancient life.

The Island Review shares some Greenland-themed poems by Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese.

JSTOR Daily looks at how the introduced Callery pear tree has become invasive in North America.

Language Log considers language as a self-regulating system.

Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw notes his new magpie friend. What name should he have?

The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer notes that the democracy of Mexico is in such poor shape that, even now, the democracies of Poland and Hungary despite far-right subversion are better off.

Drew Rowsome reviews the 1993 novel The Night of the Moonbow by Thomas Tryon.

The Russian Demographics Blog notes the falling fertility rates in Syria, and takes issue with one statistical claim.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel notes that gravitational waves are affected by gravity, and looks at what this implies for physics.

Towleroad reports that Sarah Silverman has rethought her use of the word "gay" in her comedy routines.

Vintage Space notes the evidence confirming that many--most, even--Apollo astronauts had tattoos.

Window on Eurasia notes how the boundaries of the "Russian world" continue to contract, with the status of the Russian language receding in the education and the media and the public life of neighbouring countries.

Arnold Zwicky considers which part of Europe Switzerland lies in. Is it central European, or western European?

La Presse notes that reconstruction work planned for Montréal's Saint-Sulpice library has been delayed by a shortage of workers, given the wider city's construction boom.

CBC notes how the Halifax Explosion led to the Oland family building the Moosehead Brewery in Saint John.

The closure of Sydney-based call centre Servicom has left six hundred people unemployed just before Christmas. CBC reports.

Gothamist warns people in New York City which bars to avoid during this weekend's Santacon.

Politico Europe notes how, in the Polish city of Katowice at the heart of Upper Silesia, even there coal is falling out of the mix as a major employer.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait shares photos of a dust storm over Greenland.

The Crux looks at the hypervelocity stars of the MIlky Way Galaxy, stars flung out towards intergalactic space by close encounters with the galactic core.

D-Brief notes a study suggesting that the gut bacteria of immigrants to the United States tends to Americanize over time, becoming less diverse.

Joe. My. God. notes yet another homophobe--this time, an ex-gay "therapist"--who has been outed as actively seeking gay sex.

JSTOR Daily notes that bears preparing to build up their fat stores for hibernation really have to work hard at this task.

Language Hat notes, after Elias Canetti, a benefit of being multilingual: You can find out if people near you are planning to kill you.

Lawyers, Guns and Money recounts an anecdote from the 1980s revealing the great racism on the part of Donald Trump.

Sadakat Kadri at the LRB Blog notes a gloomy celebration in Prague of the centenary of the 1918 foundation of Czechoslovakia, gloomy not just because of the weather but because of the rhetoric of Czechia's president.

The Map Room Blog notes a new book examining the political and military import of mapmaking in Scotland.

Cheryl Thompson at Spacing writes about the long history of blackface in Canadian popular culture, looking at the representations it made and the tensions that it hid.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel looks at how new technologies are allowing astronomers to overcome the distorting effects of the atmosphere.

Frances Woolley at Worthwhile Canadian Initiative, looking at female employment in Canada, finds the greatest potential for further growth in older women. (Issues, including the question of how to include these women and how to fight discrimination, need to be dealt with first.)

This sad SCMP article takes a look at the struggles of North Korean defectors on arriving in South Korea, a competitive society with its own values alien to them.

This Open Democracy book review asks what went wrong in eastern Europe, that illiberalism became so popular. (Of note, I think, is the suggestion that Western definitions have changed substantially since the 1990s.)

The rise, in the person of Bolsonario, of fascism in Brazil is the subject of this stirring Open Democracy feature.

This New York Times opinion piece by an Irish woman living in England touches upon the ways in which Brexiteers' blithe dismissal of Ireland and Irish needs are starting to make many 21st century Irish angry with their eastern neighbour, again.

MacLean's notes how the legalization of marijuana in Canada came about as a consequence of the recognition by Justin Trudeau of the unfairness of the old regime.

The Crux compares the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the stories that they hold, to the sorts of oral histories that historians have traditionally been skeptical of. What, after all, is the difference?

D-Brief notes a proposal by scientists to reengineer the world's food system to support a larger population in a time of environmental stresses.

Earther notes that Gallifrey, the homeworld of Doctor Who, would be a pretty uninviting Earth-like world.

Peter Kaufman at the Everyday Sociology Blog writes a powerful sociological treatment of his impending death.

Far Outliers considers the relative firepower of the Hatfields and the McCoys.

JSTOR Daily links to a paper considering how, and why, different epidemics can be suitable (or not) for entertainment purposes.

Language Hat looks at a remarkable new book, Robert Macfarlane's Lost Words, drawing from the nature-related words dropped by the Oxford Junior Dictionary.

Lingua Franca at the Chronicle notes how "du coup" has ascended to become a newly prominent expression in French.

Marginal Revolution links to a paper examining mechanisms explaining how Communism had a lasting negative effect towards immigration.

Window on Eurasia notes that Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, poor and insecure, need Russian military bases in their countries more than Russia does.

Eszter Hargittai at Crooked Timber shares a painting from an exhibit of Star Wars-themed art near the Swiss city of Lausanne.

D-Brief notes that scientists claim to have detected the gamma-ray signature from SS 433, a microquasar in our galaxy 15000 light-years away, as the black hole at its heart was eating a star.

Language Hat takes a look again at the history of Chinook Jargon, the creole that in the 19th century was a major language in northwestern North America.

Marginal Revolution notes that, in contemporary Scotland, a castle can be less expensive than a bottle of good single malt whiskey. What societies value varies over time.

At the NYR Daily, Molly Crabapple tells a personal story of the history of the Bund, the Jewish socialist and nationalist union once a power in central and eastern Europe but now gone.

Drew Rowsome praises the Paul Tremblay horror novel Disappearance at Devil's Rock.

Towleroad shares a great new song from Charli XCX featuring Troye Sivan, the nostalgic "1999".

Window on Eurasia notes that some question whether the 1944 annexation of Siberian Tannu Tuva into the Soviet Union, thence Russia, was legal or not.

This Ryan Diduck article at CultMTL taking a look at the MUTEK electronic music festival and Never Apart, evoking what I suppose might be called midtown Montréal, is wonderfully evocative.

The mayor of Québec City wants to increase immigration to his metropolis, the better to deal with labour shortages. CBC reports.

Guardian Cities takes a look at the famously Italianate 1930s capital of Eritrea, Asmara. What future does it face as the country opens up?

Guardian Cities reports on how lethal being a graffiti artist can be in São Paulo.

This Dara Bramson article at Protocols sharing a first-hand perspective on the revival of Jewish life in Krakow is beautiful.

Amanda Connelly at Global News last month took a look at the reasons why the Canadian common market has been, and will remain, so fragmented.

Robert Alexander Innes at The Conversation makes the perfectly defensible argument, in relation to statues of John A. MacDonald, that while MacDonald should not be forgotten his anti-First Nations racism should likewise not be celebrated. History matters.

VICE takes a look at the life and prospects of Louis Alphonse, Duc of Anjou and one of the claimants to the defunct French throne.

The Local Italy notes that many of the populists of that country are outraged by comparisons between current immigrants to Italy and past emigrants from Italy. Those emigrants are different, you see.

Michael Hauser at Open Democracy suggests that, if the Prague Spring in late 1960s Czechoslovakia been allowed to unfold, it might well have inspired many in West and East with a vision of a different model.

Bad Astronomy notes the discovery of a distant exoplanet, orbiting subgiant EPIC248847494, with an orbit ten years long.

Centauri Dreams reports on the latest discoveries regarding Ceres' Occator Crater, a place with a cryovolcanic past.

D-Brief notes the discovery of a brilliant early galaxy, the brightest so far found, P352-15.

Dangerous Minds shares an extended interview with Françoise Hardy.

Far Outliers notes how, during the later Cold War, cash-desperate Soviet bloc governments allowed hopeful emigrants for countries in the West to depart only if these governments paid a ransom for them.

Hornet Stories has a nice feature on Enemies of Dorothy, a LGBT sketch comedy group with a political edge. I saw some of their clips; I'm following them.

JSTOR Daily looks at some of the features uniting celebratory music festival Coachella with Saturnalia, fitting the former into an ancient tradition.

Language Hat reports on researchers studying the development of emojis. Are they becoming components of a communications system with stable meanings?

Marginal Revolution reports on how mobile money is becoming a dominant element in the economy of Somaliland.

Justine Petrone at North reports on the things that were, and were not, revealed about his family's ancestry through DNA testing.

Melissa Chadburn writes at the NYR Daily about the food she ate growing up as a poor child, and its meaning for her then and now in a time of growing inequality.

Roads and Kingdoms tells of a woman's experience drinking samsu, a clear rice liqueur, in Malacca.

Drew Rowsome raves over David Kingston Yeh's debut novel, the queer Toronto-themed The Boy at the Edge of the World.

Window on Eurasia quotes a Russian observer who suggests that Trump's attempt to disrupt the European Union, even if successful, might simply help make Germany into a strategic competitor to the United States (with benefits for other powers).

Many things accumulated after a pause of a couple of months. Here are some of the best links to come about in this time.

Anthrodendum considers the issue of the security, or not, of cloud data storage used by anthropologists.

Architectuul takes a look at the very complex history of urban planning and architecture in the city of Skopje, linked to issues of disaster and identity.

Centauri Dreams features an essay by Ioannis Kokkidinis, examining the nature of the lunar settlement of Artemis in Andy Weir's novel of the same. What is it?

Crux notes the possibility that human organs for transplant might one day soon be grown to order.

D-Brief notes evidence that extrasolar visitor 'Oumuamua is actually more like a comet than an asteroid.

Bruce Dorminey makes the sensible argument that plans for colonizing Mars have to wait until we save Earth. (I myself have always thought the sort of environmental engineering necessary for Mars would be developed from techniques used on Earth.)

The Everyday Sociology Blog took an interesting look at the relationship between hobbies and work.

Far Outliers looks at how, in the belle époque, different European empires took different attitudes towards the emigration of their subjects depending on their ethnicity. (Russia was happy to be rid of Jews, while Hungary encouraged non-Magyars to leave.)

The Finger Post shares some photos taken by the author on a trip to the city of Granada, in Nicaragua.

The Frailest Thing's L.M. Sacasas makes an interesting argument as to the extent to which modern technology creates a new sense of self-consciousness in individuals.

Inkfish suggests that the bowhead whale has a more impressive repertoire of music--of song, at least--than the fabled humpback.

Information is Beautiful has a wonderful illustration of the Drake Equation.

JSTOR Daily takes a look at the American women who tried to prevent the Trail of Tears.

Language Hat takes a look at the diversity of Slovene dialects, this diversity perhaps reflecting the stability of the Slovene-inhabited territories over centuries.

Language Log considers the future of the Cantonese language in Hong Kong, faced with pressure from China.

Lawyers, Guns and Money notes how negatively disruptive a withdrawal of American forces from Germany would be for the United States and its position in the world.

Lingua Franca, at the Chronicle, notes the usefulness of the term "Latinx".

The LRB Blog reports on the restoration of a late 19th century Japanese-style garden in Britain.

The New APPS Blog considers the ways in which Facebook, through the power of big data, can help commodify personal likes.

Neuroskeptic reports on the use of ayahusasca as an anti-depressant. Can it work?

Justin Petrone, attending a Nordic scientific conference in Iceland to which Estonia was invited, talks about the frontiers of Nordic identity.

Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw writes about what it is to be a literary historian.

Drew Rowsome praises Dylan Jones' new biographical collection of interviews with the intimates of David Bowie.

Peter Rukavina shares an old Guardian article from 1993, describing and showing the first webserver on Prince Edward Island.

Seriously Science notes the potential contagiousness of parrot laughter.

Understanding Society's Daniel Little t.com/2018/06/shakespeare-on-tyranny.htmltakes a look at the new Stephen Greenblatt book, Shakespeare on Power, about Shakespeare's perspectives on tyranny.

Window on Eurasia shares speculation as to what might happen if relations between Russia and Kazakhstan broke down.

Worthwhile Canadian Initiative noticed, before the election, the serious fiscal challenges facing Ontario.

Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell points out that creating a national ID database in the UK without issuing actual cards would be a nightmare.

Arnold Zwicky reports on a strand of his Swiss family's history found in a Paris building.

Kambiz Kamrani at Anthropology.net notes that the more Neanderthal DNA gets sequenced, the more we know of this population's history.

Anthro{dendum} takes a look at anthropologists who use their knowledge and their access to other cultures for purposes of espionage.

Crooked Timber tackles the question of immigration from another angle: do states have the authority to control it, for starters?

Dangerous Minds shares a fun video imagining Netflix as it might have existed in 1995.

The Everyday Sociology Blog considers how the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico is an instance of American state failure.

The Frailest Thing's L.M. Sacasas considers is vows to abandon Facebook are akin to a modern-day vow of poverty.

JSTOR Daily looks at Queer Eye for the Straight Guy and why it still matters.

Language Log considers the naming practices of new elements like Nihonium.

Lawyers, Guns and Money suggests that, based on the stagnation of average incomes in the US as GDP has growth, capitalism can be said to have failed.

Lingua Franca considers the origin of the phrase "bad actor."

Marginal Revolution links to a paper suggesting that the American opioid epidemic is not simply driven by economic factors.

The NYR Daily considers how Poland's new history laws do poor service to a very complicated past.

Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw has an interesting post examining the settlement of Australisa's inland "Channel Country" by cattle stations, chains to allow herds to migrate following the weather.

The Planetary Science Blog's Emily Lakdawalla takes a look at the latest science on famously volcanic Io.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel examines how the Milky Way Galaxy is slowly consuming its neighbours, the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds.

This Toronto Life Q&A with Quinn Pallister, the Hamilton baker who gained fame baking the world's gayest cake, is a joy.

Politico Europe takes a look at the plight of LGBTQ Ukrainian refugees, particularly exposed to dislocation.

VICE takes a look at how queer Poles get by in contemporary Poland.

Gamasutra notes the recovery of a very early GLBTQ-themed computer game, the 1989 Caper in the Castro by C.M. Ralph.

VICE's Noisey notes that queer women were very major players in pop music in 2017.

First Post shares a personal essay by Aniruddin Mahale talking about his experience with his "gay" voice.

CBC notes that major First Nations languages in Canada like Cree and Ojibwe may soon be supported by translators in the Canadian Parliament in Ottawa.

Julian Brave NoiseCat at VICE argues against an imagining of wilderness that imagines territories without indigenous peoples. Such too readily can enable abuse of the natural world.

Bloomberg notes how the Spanish authorities in Catalonia have overriden local governments and populations by transferring dispute art objects to a different Spanish region. This won't end well.

Transitions Online notes how traditionally strong Czech support for Tibet and Tibetan exiles has been fading in recent years, with China becoming a bigger player.li
Paul Wells at MacLean's takes a look at what might be the latest round of the language debate in Montréal. How important are greetings? (I think, for the record, they might be more important than Wells argues.)

DW reports on the profound and apparently irreversible depopulation of rural areas of the former East Germany.

Stephen Leahy at VICE's Motherboard notes that pronounced global cooling may be responsible for the emigration of Donald Trump's grandfather to the United States, that he was a climate refugee.

Christian Odendahl at politico.eu suggests that Brexit, by encouraging skilled immigrants (and others) to leave the United Kingdom, might work to the benefit of a Germany experiencing labour shortages.

David Roberts at Vox talks about the many reasons why, as an environmental journalist, he does not talk about overpopulation as a problem.

National Geographic reports on another massacre of indigenous peoples in the Brazilian Amazon by goldminers.

Phys.org warns that, at the current rate of deaths, the right whales of the North Atlantic might face extinction. Gack. (Sometimes I think we deserve a visit from the whale probe.)

This heartbreaking story co-authored by Ted Chiang takes the Arecibo radio telescope and the Puerto Rican parrot, the iguaca, and does something terribly beautiful and sad with the confluence of the two. Go, read.

The small minority of American gun owners who own huge numbers of guns, more than they could seemingly use, is the subject of this study at The Guardian.

The Japanese economy may be growing, but so is inequality, Bloomberg reports.

This Open Democracy examination of the sharpening political divides in Poland, particularly outside of Warsaw, is gripping. It starts with the self-immolation of Upper Silesian Piotr Szczęsny in his country's capital.

Julian Savarer takes a look at the many problems with "Lexit", the idea of a left-wing argument for Brexit.

James Bridle looks at the complex human and artificial mechanisms behind the production of so much wrong children's video content. #elsagate is only the tip of it all. Medium hosts the article.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait notes that the Earth can easily survive without us.

blogTO notes that the Aga Khan Museum recently made an appearance in Star Trek: Discovery, as Vulcan.

Centauri Dreams notes the way neutron star collisions and kilonovas can be used to examine physical laws in extreme circumstances.

Hornet Stories notes that trans political candidate Danica Roem, in Virginia, is getting lots of positive attention.

The LRB Blog visits Gdansk only to find popular anti-Muslim xenophobia thriving.

The NYR Daily looks at photographic and other legacies of the Jamaica dancehall scene.

The Planetary Society Blog looks at the evolution of SETI from the 1960s to the present.

Roads and Kingdoms looks at the struggle of astronomers, in West Texas and elsewhere, to preserve dark skies.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel looks at the ways in which GW170817 has confirmed the Standard Model.

Window on Eurasia argues that reactionary conservatism in Russia is making that country's HIV/AIDS epidemic worse.

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