A Bit More Detail

• Architectuul visits the studio of Barbas Lopes Arquitectos in Lisbon, here.


• Bad Astronomer takes a look at a new paper examining the effectiveness of different asteroid detection technologies, including nuclear weapons.


• Centauri Dreams reports on a new study suggesting potentially habitable planets orbiting Alpha Centauri B, smaller of the two stars, could suffer from rapid shifts of their axes.


• John Quiggin at Crooked Timber argues some polls suggest some American conservatives really would prefer Russia as a model to California.


• Bruce Dorminey notes the discovery, by the Murchison Widefield Array in Australia, of 27 supernova remnants in our galaxy.


• The Dragon's Tales shares a collection of links about stealth aircraft, here.


• Gizmodo notes a new study suggesting that DNA is but one of very very many potential genetic molecules.


• Language Hat shares a reevaluation of the Richard Stanyhurst translation of the Aeneid, with its manufactured words. Why mightn't this have been not mockable but rather creative?


• Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns and Money celebrated the 50th anniversary of the takeover of Alcatraz Island by Native American activists.


• Chris Bertram writes at the LRB Blog, after the catastrophe of the Essex van filled with dozens of dead migrants, about the architecture of exclusion that keeps out migrants.


• Marginal Revolution shares a comment looking at the fentanyl crisis from a new angle.


• Jenny Uglow writes at the NYR Daily about a Science Museum exhibit highlighting the dynamic joys of science and its progress over the centuries.


• Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw takes a look at the question of how to prevent the wildfires currently raging in Australia. What could have been done, what should be done?


• The Planetary Society Blog reports on proposals from China for two long-range probe missions to interstellar space, including a Neptune flyby.


• Drew Rowsome reviews the wonderfully innocent Pinocchio currently playing at the Young People's Theatre.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel looks at the evidence for the universe, maybe, being closed.


• Window on Eurasia notes that the Alexandria Patriarchate is the next Orthodox body to recognize the Ukrainian church.


• Arnold Zwicky looks at irregular versus regular, as a queer word too.

• Anthro{dendum} features an essay examining trauma and resiliency as encountered in ethnographic fieldwork.


• Architectuul highlights a new project seeking to promote historic churches built in the United Kingdom in the 20th century.


• Bad Astronomy's Phil Plait examines Ahuna Mons, a muddy and icy volcano on Ceres, and looks at the nebula Westerhout 40.


• Centauri Dreams notes the recent mass release of data from a SETI project, and notes the discovery of two vaguely Earth-like worlds orbiting the very dim Teegarden's Star, just 12 light-years away.


• Chris Bertram at Crooked Timber notes that having universities as a safe space for trans people does not infringe upon academic freedom.


• The Crux looks at the phenomenon of microsleep.


• D-Brief notes evidence that the Milky Way Galaxy was warped a billion years ago by a collision with dark matter-heavy dwarf galaxy Antlia 2, and notes a robotic fish powered by a blood analogue.


• The Dragon's Tales notes that India plans on building its own space station.


• Earther notes the recording of the song of the endangered North Pacific right whale.


• The Everyday Sociology Blog looks at the role of emotional labour in leisure activities.


• Far Outliers looks at how Japan prepared for the Battle of the Leyte Gulf in 1944.


• Gizmodo looks at astronomers' analysis of B14-65666, an ancient galactic collision thirteen billion light-years away, and notes that the European Space Agency has a planned comet interception mission.


• io9 notes how the plan for Star Trek in the near future is to not only have more Star Trek, but to have many different kinds of Star Trek for different audiences.


• Joe. My. God. notes the observation of Pete Buttigieg that the US has probably already had a gay president.


• JSTOR Daily looks at the many ways in which the rhetoric of Celtic identity has been used, and notes that the archerfish uses water ejected from its eyes to hunt.


• Language Hat looks at why Chinese is such a hard language to learn for second-language learners, and looks at the Suso monastery in Spain, which played a key role in the coalescence of the Spanish language.


• Language Log looks at the complexities of katakana.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the death of deposed Egypt president Mohammed Morsi looks like a slow-motion assassination, and notes collapse of industrial jobs in the Ohio town of Lordstown, as indicative of broader trends.


• The LRB Blog looks at the death of Mohamed Morsi.


• The Map Rom Blog shares a new British Antarctic Survey map of Greenland and the European Arctic.


• Marginal Revolution notes how non-religious people are becoming much more common in the Middle East, and makes the point that the laying of cable for the transatlantic telegraph is noteworthy technologically.


• Noah Smith at Noahpionion takes the idea of the Middle East going through its own version of the Thirty Years War seriously. What does this imply?


• The NYR Daily takes a look at a Lebanon balanced somehow on the edge, and looks at the concentration camp system of the United States.


• The Planetary Society Blog explains what people should expect from LightSail 2, noting that the LightSail 2 has launched.


• Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw points readers to his stories on Australian spy Harry Freame.


• Rocky Planet explains, in the year of the Apollo 50th anniversary, why the Moon matters.


• Drew Rowsome reviews, and praises, South African film Kanarie, a gay romp in the apartheid era.


• The Russian Demographics Blog links to a paper examining the relationship between childcare and fertility in Belgium, and looks at the nature of statistical data from Turkmenistan.


• The Strange Maps Blog shares a map highlighting different famous people in the United States.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains why different galaxies have different amounts of dark matter, and shares proof that the Apollo moon landings actually did happen.


• Towleroad notes the new evidence that poppers, in fact, are not addictive.


• Window on Eurasia warns about the parlous state of the Volga River.


• Arnold Zwicky takes an extended look at the mid-20th century gay poet Frank O'Hara.

• JSTOR Daily explains how, gradually, the ancient Egyptians came to venerate cats.


• American Veterinarian reports on the 99 Lives Cat Genome Sequencing Initiative.


• I'm not sure quite what I think about this Jonathan Jones argument at The Guardian, about the removal of menace from the popular image of the cat. You?


• CNBC reports on the CitiKitty potty training kit for cats.


• Tony Davis at the Charlottetown Guardian reports on how, during the power outage, neighbours of the PEI Humane Society provided generators to keep (among others) adult cats and kittens there warm.

• A Casavant pipe organ in a church in Saint John, New Brunswick, is up for sale, with an uncertain future. Will it be played again? CBC reports.


• Syrian refugees resettled in a Hamilton highrise tower have encountered bedbug-related nightmares. The Toronto Star reports.


• Radio Canada suggests that the substantial Francophone minority in Winnipeg--the largest such community in western Canada--may have helped the city attract investment from France and Québec, here.


• JSTOR Daily notes the disastrous experience of Atlantic City with casinos.


• Egypt is planning to deal with congestion and pollution in its capital city of Cairo by building a new capital city. The Guardian reports.

• Centauri Dreams takes a look at how stellar winds from red dwarfs complicate the habitability of planets in their circumstellar habitable zones.


• The Crux, noting the 75th anniversary of the atomic age, notes some non-nuclear weapons achievements of this era.


• D-Brief notes the exceptional strength of prehistoric women farmers.


• Daily JSTOR takes a look at the instantaneity and power--frightening power, even--of celebrity culture in an era where technology gives us access to the intimate details of their lives.


• Far Outliers notes that Pearl Buck, American author and missionary in China, actually was egalitarian and feminist.


• The Frailest Thing's Michael Sacasas considers all those texts created in the past, of importance then and relevant even now, which have been forgotten. How can the canon be restored?


• Imageo shares photos of the eruption of Mount Agung, in Bali.


• Language Hat notes the intense interest of Roman Italy in all things Egyptian, including hieroglyphics. Where, exactly, was the like European interest in the cultures it colonized more recently?


• Language Log tries to find people who can identify the source language of a particular text. It seems Turkic ...


• Lingua France talks about Robert Luis Stevenson and his opinions (and the blogger's) about the weather of Edinburgh.


• Lovesick Cyborg notes the seriously destabilizing potential of roboticization on human employment. To what extent can improving education systems help?


• Tariq Ali at the LRB Blog talks about the latest religious-political crisis in Pakistan.


• The Map Room Blog links to an article describing a Vietnamese historian's search for cartographic proof of his country's claims in the South China Sea.


• The NYR Daily considers an interesting question: how, exactly, do you get an actor to act naturally for film? What strategies do filmmakers use?


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer notes a new genetic study hinting at a much greater survival of indigenous populations--women, at least--in Argentina than was previously suspected.


• Roads and Kingdoms notes an interesting effort to try to preserve and restore the older districts of Kabul.


• Seriously Science notes the exploration of the microbial life populating the coffee machine sludge of some inquisitive scientists.


• Window on Eurasia notes that substantially Russian-populated northern Kazakhstan is at risk of becoming a new Russian target, especially after Nazarbayev goes.


• Arnold Zwicky shares some thoughts on people of colour and the LGBTQ rainbow flag.

• Apparently the Trump Administration has ruled that LGBTQ people are not protected under US bias legislation.


• Quartz reports Egyptian fans of Lebanese indie group Mashrou' Leila have been arrested for waving the rainbow flag.


• This summer, Sophie Kemp at VICE celebrated the liberatory queer reality of nu disco.


• VICE reports on the life and achievements of gay African-American fashion designer Patrick Kelly.


• Hornet Stories shares Alan Cumming's argument that it's not a privilege to share queer stories, but instead a responsibility.


• An In Style author describes how, now that he's out of the closet, he is going to actively watch the new Will & Grace.

• D-Brief considers if gas giant exoplanet Kelt-9b is actually evaporating.


• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper that considers where to find signs of prior indigenous civilizations in our solar system. (The Moon, Mars, and outer solar system look good.


• Joe. My. God. reveals the Israeli nuclear option in the 1967 war.


• Language Log shares a clip of a Nova Scotia Gaelic folktale about a man named Donald.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the ongoing deportations of Hispanic undocumented migrants from the United States.


• The LRB Blog notes the brittle rhetoric of May and the Conservatives.


• The NYRB Daily mourns the Trump Administration's plans for American education.


• Savage Minds considers the world now in the context of the reign of the dangerous nonsense of Neil Postman.


• Strange Maps shares a map documenting the spread of chess from India to Ireland in a millennium.


• Window on Eurasia argues that the Russian government needs to do more to protect minority languages.

Ethiopia’s government suspects Egyptian elements may be backing Oromo protesters as rivalry over control of the Nile River intensifies, Communications Minister Getachew Reda said.

Authorities in Cairo may be supporting the banned Oromo Liberation Front, or OLF, that organized a spate of attacks last week across Ethiopia’s most populous region, which led to the declaration of a state of emergency on Sunday, he told reporters Monday in the capital, Addis Ababa.

“We have ample evidence that trainings have happened, financing has happened in Egypt, the jury is still out whether the Egyptian government is going to claim responsibility for that,” Getachew said. “Nor are we saying it is directly linked with the Egyptian government, but we know for a fact the terrorist group OLF has been receiving all kind of support from Egypt.”

Egypt’s government has claimed Ethiopia’s construction of a hydropower dam on the main tributary of the Nile contravenes colonial-era treaties that grant it the right to the bulk of the river’s water. Ethiopian officials reject the accords as obsolete and unjust.

• Bloomberg notes a report of Egypt's discovery of the wreckage of the crashed EgyptAir jet, reports on the visit of a IMF team to Mozambique, and looks at Vietnam's success in capturing Southeast Asian trade with the European Union.


• Bloomberg View notes that Donald Trump's candidacy can mean bad things for the Republican Party.


• CBC looks at how a top export from Tibet is a parasitic fungus, and looks at controversy over a CSIS evaluation of diaspora communities and terrorism.


• MacLean's looks at the wife of the Orlando shooting.


• The National Post notes the retraction of an ASEAN statement about maritime borders with China.


• Open Democracy carries an ill-judged radical Brexiteer's statement. All I can say is that socialism in one country is not likely, certainly not with the Tories in charge.


• The Toronto Star notes the fears of tax authorities that Conrad Black might abscond without paying his taxes.


• Universe Today notes the discovery, in a Swedish quarry, of a type of meteorite no longer present in the solar system.


• Wired reports on the second LIGO discovery and notes the import of The Onion in times of trouble.