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Colby King writes at the Everyday Sociology Blog about furnace, kiln, and oven operators as recorded in the American Community Survey. What experiences do they have in common, and which separate them?

Far Outliers reports on the work of the Indian Labourer Corps on the Western Front, collecting and recycling raw materials from the front.

L.M. Sacasas at The Frailest Thing makes the case that the seeming neutrality of modern digital technologies are dissolving the established political order.

Joe. My. God. notes a report from Andrew McCabe suggesting that Trump did not believe his own intelligence services' reports about the range of North Korean missiles, instead believing Putin.

JSTOR Daily notes how the interracial marriages of serving members of the US military led to the liberalization of immigration law in the United States in the 1960s.

Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns and Money reports on the connections of the police in Portland, Oregon, to the alt-right.

Alex Tabarrok at Marginal Revolution shares a report of the discovery of English-speaking unicorns in South America that actually reveals the remarkable language skills of a new AI. Fake news, indeed.

The NYR Daily shares a short story by Panashe Chigumadzi, "You Can't Eat Beauty".

Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw welcomes a new fluidity in Australian politics that makes the elections debatable.

Drew Rowsome looks at the horror fiction of Justin Cronin.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel shares some of the key historical images of Pluto, from its discovery to the present.

Window on Eurasia takes a look at the only church of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church operating in Russia, in the Moscow area city of Noginsk.

Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell makes the point that counting on opinion pieces in journalism as a source of unbiased information is a categorical mistake.

Arnold Zwicky looks back, on President's Day at Berkeley, at his experiences and those of others around him at that university and in its community.

Matt Gurney notes at Global News though the end of GM in Oshawa should have been expected, people there are still shocked.

Roads and Kingdoms shares a list of ten foodstuffs in Philadelphia that help explain that city.

The Guardian explains how London has become a European centre of tuberculosis.

CityLab suggests that pedestrianization helped the Spanish city of Pontevedra become very child-friendly.

Guardian Cities shares some photos from the North Korean capital of Pyongyang.

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.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait considers nearby galaxy NGC 6744, a relatively nearby spiral galaxy that may look like the Milky Way.

D-Brief notes the remarkable ceramic spring that gives the mantis shrimp its remarkably powerful punch.

Far Outliers notes how the north Korean port of Hamhung was modernized in the 1930s, but also Japanized, with few legacies of its Korean past remaining.

Joe. My. God. notes how the Trump administration plans to define being transgender out of existence. Appalling.

Alexandra Samuel at JSTOR Daily notes the ways in which the Internet has undermined the traditions which support American political institutions. Can new traditions be made?

Lawyers, Guns, and Money notes how the Trump's withdrawal from the INF treaty with Russia on nuclear weapons harms American security.

Rose Jacobs at Lingua Franca writes about ways in which derision, specifically of other nationalities, enters into English slang.

Marginal Revolution notes that, in an article surveying the Icelandic language, a report that sales of books in Iceland have fallen by nearly half since 2010.

The NYR Daily looks at two recent movies, one autobiographical and one fictional, looking at dads in space.

Jason Perry at the Planetary Society Blog reports on the latest imagery of the volcanoes of Io.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel considers the possibility that time travel might not destroy the universe via paradoxes.

Window on Eurasia suggests that the experience of post-Soviet Estonia with its two Orthodox churches might be a model for Ukraine.

This Open Democracy article examines how, exactly, Montenegro could start a Third World War. (It would need help from the Great Powers, for starters.)

Politico Europe notes that wildlife seems to thrive on the depopulated front line in eastern Ukraine's Donbas.

Doug Bock Clark writes at GQ about the sad story of Otto Warmbier, finding much evidence to confirm that he was not tortured but rather that he suffered a sadder fate.

The New York Times takes a look at the first IKEA in India, still recognizably an IKEA but tailored to fit local conditions.

Douglas Rushkoff writes at The Guardian about the blind alleys of nihilism and fear that at least some corporate futurists and transhumanists are racing into.

Is a mysterious chair in Dartmouth a legacy of the Halifax Explosion? Global News reports.

Who is Googling Winnipeg, and why? Global News reports.

The Nunavut capital of Iqaluit faces a serious prospect of water shortages, as its water source Lake Geraldine cannot support growing consumption. CBC reports.

Guardian Cities reports that the old Tsarist-era palaces of St. Petersburg face a grim future unless someone--artists, say--can rehabilitate these edifices.

Guardian Cities shares photos of the subway stations of Pyongyang.

It's time to add new links and news sources to my blogroll, ones reflecting my interests.

CityLab is a great news source looking at different urban phenomena within individual cities and uniting cities. CityLab hosts Sam Weber's article looking at the many problems facing North Korean defectors as they try to assimilate into ultra-sophisticated Seoul.

The Conversation CA hosts Stephen Scherer's article explaining the importance of sequencing the genomes of Canadian animals.

The Discourse is a new Canadian media start-up promising in-depth coverage on Canadian issues. Before the recent Ontario election, they started a hashtag, #GTADiscourse, to see what people in the GTA underserved by the media were concerned about.

The Guardian Cities takes a look at urban issues around the world. I liked this Mireille Silcoff article explaining the import of 1 July to the inhabitants of Montréal: It's moving day!

Steve Benjamins hosts Village, a new subscriber-only newsletter focusing on Toronto. I liked this article about a Seaton Village beekeeper, here.

The venerable hard-left Canadian news site Rabble has plenty of thought-provoking articles, like Barâa Arar's essay explaining their fear of what a Doug Ford government in Ontario might do.

American queer magazine Them has plenty of great articles. I liked this one confirming that Tessa Thompson, Valkyrie in Thor and Janelle Monáe's rumoured girlfriend, is out as bi.

Toronto website and discussion forum Urban Toronto reports on a massive mural set to grace the Parkside Student Residences at Jarvis and Carlton.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait suggests that strange markings in the upper atmosphere of Venus might well be evidence of life in that relatively Earth-like environment.

The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly raves over Babylon Berlin.

Centauri Dreams considers, fifty years after its publication, Clarke's 2001.

Crooked Timber considers Kevin Williamson in the context of conservative intellectual representation more generally.

D-Brief considers "digisexuality", the fusion of the digital world with sexuality. (I think we're quite some way off, myself.)

The Dragon's Tales considers evidence suggesting that the agricultural revolution in ancient Anatolia was achieved without population replacement from the Fertile Crescent.

Drew Ex Machina takes a look at the flight of Apollo 6, a flight that helped iron out problem with the Saturn V.

The Frailest Thing's Michael Sacasas is not impressed by the idea of the trolley problem, as something that allows for the displacement of responsibility.

Gizmodo explains why the faces of Neanderthals were so different from the faces of modern humans.

JSTOR Daily considers if volcano-driven climate change helped the rise of Christianity.

Language Log considers, after Spinoza, the idea that vowels are the souls of consonants.

Lawyers, Guns and Money engages in a bit of speculation: What would have happened had Clinton won? (Ideological gridlock, perhaps.)

Lovesick Cyborg explores how the advent of the cheap USB memory stick allowed North Koreans to start to enjoy K-Pop.

Russell Darnley considers the transformation of the forests of Indonesia's Riau forest from closed canopy forest to plantations.

The Map Room Blog shares some praise of inset maps.

Neuroskeptic considers how ketamine may work as an anti-depressant.

The NYR Daily considers student of death, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross.

Justin Petrone of north! shares an anecdote from the Long Island coastal community of Greenport.

Personal Reflection's Jim Belshaw considers the iconic Benjamin Wolfe painting The Death of General Wolfe.

The Planetary Society Blog's Casey Dreier notes cost overruns for the James Webb Space Telescope.

pollotenchegg maps recent trends in natural increase and decrease in Ukraine.

Roads and Kingdoms talks about a special Hverabrauð in Iceland, baked in hot springs.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel shares his own proposal for a new Drake Equation, revised to take account of recent discoveries.

Vintage Space considers how the American government would have responded if John Glenn had died in the course of his 1962 voyage into space.

Window on Eurasia considers the belief among many Russians that had Beria, not Khrushchev, succeeded Stalin, the Soviet Union might have been more successful.

At Anthropology.net, Kambiz Kamrani notes the very recent discovery in Malaysia of the hitherto unsuspected Jedek language by anthropologists doing fieldwork.

Hornet Stories interviews the five stars of the new Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.

Joe. My. God. notes Trump plans to privatize the International Space Station.

JSTOR Daily links to some of the papers reflecting on the furor around Murphy Brown and that show's depiction of single motherhood as a defensible choice.

Language Hat notes a contention that the more popular a language the more simplified its grammar will be. Is this correct?

Language Log notes how hockey terminology differs between the two Koreas, South Korea importing foreign words and the North creating neologisms.

Scott Lemieux at Lawyers, Guns and Money does not think a governmental shutdown in the US would have protected DREAMers.

Lingua Franca considers the different colloquial uses in English of "baked".

The NYR Daily praises Suburra, a new crime drama set in contemporary Rome.

At Starts With A Bang, Ethan Siegel explains how scientists know that the universe is expanding.

Supernova Condensate explores the possibility that artificial intelligences might be readily locked into patterns of behaviours not taking human concerns into account and finds it not likely, barring huge design faults.

Window on Eurasia notes how Khrushchev, not content with transferring Crimea from Russia to Ukraine, also considered border changes in Central Asia.

The Buzz, over at the Toronto Public Library, recommends some audiobooks, here.

Centauri Dreams features an essay, by Kostas Konstantindis, exploring how near-future technology could be used to explore the oceans of Europa and Enceladus for life.

Far Outliers takes a look at the many languages used in Persia circa 500 BCE.

Hornet Stories notes that Fox News has retracted a bizarrely homophobic op-ed on the Olympics by one of its executives.

JSTOR Daily explores what is really involved in the rumours of J. Edgar Hoover and cross-dressing.

Language Hat, in exploring Zadie Smith, happens upon the lovely word "cernuous".

Lawyers, Guns and Money links to an article, and starts a discussion, regarding the possibility of a North Korean victory early in the Korean War. What would have happened next?

The NYR Daily notes that Donald Trump is helping golf get a horrible reputation.

Supernova Condensate examines the science-fiction trope of artificial intelligence being dangerous, and does not find much substance behind the myth. If anything, the direction of the fear should lie in the other direction.

Understanding Society's Daniel Little looks at two books which consider the origins of the Cold War from an international relations perspective. What were the actors trying to achieve?

Window on Eurasia makes the argument that the powerful clan structures of post-Soviet Dagestan are not primordial in origin, but rather represent attempts to cope with state failure in that Russian republic.

Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell looks at the existential problems facing Capita from a Coasian perspective. How is its business model fundamentally broken?

Arnold Zwicky, in taking apart an overcorrection, explains the differences between "prone" and "supine."

Rex at Anthro{dendum} considers Ursula K Le Guin from as an anthropologist by background and interests, and as a denizen of a "Redwood Zone" of western North America with a particular climate.

Centauri Dreams notes the exceptional technical progress being made towards the next generation of space telescope technology.

Dangerous Minds shares photos of collaborations between Grace Jones and Keith Haring in 1984 and 1986, when Haring painted the star's body.

Gizmodo at io9 shares stunningly detailed photographs of the giant Pi1 Gruis, some 530 light-years away.

Hornet Stories shares a letter from the mother of a girl ten years old who describes how this theatre fan was positively affected by the Manhattan production of Kinky Boots.

Language Hat shares a Quora answer talking about the way Azerbaijani sounds to speakers of the related Turkish. Much discussion ensues.

Lawyers, Guns and Money shares the disturbing report that moderate conservative Victor Cha has been rejected as a candidate for US ambassador to South Korea because he warns against war with the North.

The Map Room Blog shares disturbing maps showing the extent to which the water reservoirs of Cape Town have been depleted.

Non-binary writer Robin Dembroff argues at the NYR Daily that state recognition of non-binary gender identity, while well-meaning, is ultimately less good than the withdrawal of gender identity as a category of state concern.

The Planetary Science Blog wonders if space travel and space science, of the sort favoured by Society president Bill Nye, could become a bipartisan issue uniting Americans.

Seriously Science notes that at least some species of birds prefer to date before they pair-bond and have children.

Towleroad reports that The Gangway, oldest surviving gay bar in San Francisco, has shut down to make way for a new laundromat/movie theatre.
Understanding Society's Daniel Little considers the factors that lead the people in charge of industries facing decline to ignore this. Could the education sector be one of these, too, depending on future change?

Transit Toronto shares a list of planned partial shutdowns for the Toronto subway in 2018, and makes the point this is good: This way, they can much-needed maintenance.

blogTO shares a future map of Toronto transit links, this one by the TTC highlighting its own dreams and hopes, many of which are planned and even funded already. I like this one.

Steve Munro at Torontoist considers whether or not the TTC can meet its goal of increased ridership, given (among other things) bottlenecks in service.

Ben Spurr notes the hope of the TTC that the King Street pilot project can be replicated elsewhere in Toronto, over at the Toronto Star. Queen Street seems one likely corridor for this to me.

Ben Spurr and Alanna Rizza report that Metrolinx, of all agencies, was apparently recently subjected to a cyberattack from North Korea. The Toronto Star has the report.

The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly talks about her love for New York's famous, dynamic, Hudson River.

Centauri Dreams notes the amazing potential for pulsar navigation to provide almost absolutely reliable guidance across the space of at least a galaxy.

Far Outliers notes the massive scale of German losses in France after the Normandy invasion.

Hornet Stories looks at the latest on theories as to the origin of homosexuality.

Joe. My. God remembers Dr. Mathilde Krim, dead this week at 91, one of the early medical heroes of HIV/AIDS in New York City.

JSTOR Daily takes a look at what, exactly, is K-POP.

Language Log notes that, in Xinjiang, the Chinese government has opted to repress education in the Mongolian language.

Lawyers, Guns and Money suggests that the risk of war in Korea is less than the media suggests.

At Chronicle's Lingua Franca, Ben Yagoda looks at redundancy in writing styles.

The NYR Daily looks at the complex relationship of French publishing house Gallimard to Céline and his Naziphile anti-Semitism.

The Planetary Society Blog looks at the latest images of Venus from Japan's Akatsuki probe.

The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer notes the apparent willingness of Trump to use a wall with Mexico--tariffs, particularly--to pay for the wall.

Spacing reviews a new book examining destination architecture.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel considers what I think is a plausible concept: Could be that there are plenty of aliens out there and we are just missing them?

At Strange Maps, Frank Jacobs shares a map of "Tabarnia", the region of Catalonia around Barcelona that is skeptical of Catalonian separatism and is being positioned half-seriously as another secessionist entity.

Window on Eurasia notes that an actively used language is hardly the only mechanism by which a separatist identity can exist.

At Antipope, Charlie Stross examines the connections between bitcoin production and the alt-right. Could cryptocurrency have seriously bad political linkages?

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait notes GW170680, a recent gravitational wave detection that is both immense in its effect and surprising for its detection being normal.

Centauri Dreams reports on a new study suggesting hot Jupiters are so large because they are heated by their local star.

Crooked Timber counsels against an easy condemnation of baby boomers as uniquely politically malign.

Daily JSTOR notes one paper that takes a look at how the surprisingly late introduction of the bed, as a piece of household technology, changed the way we sleep.

Dangerous Minds shares a 1968 newspaper interview with Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys, talking about Charlie Manson and his family and their influence on him.

The Everyday Sociology Blog takes a look at the opioid epidemic and the way that it is perceived.

At A Fistful of Euros, Alex Harrowell suggests that the unsolvable complexities of Northern Ireland may be enough to avoid a hard Brexit after all.

The LRB Blog describes a visit to a seaside village in Costa Rica where locals and visitors try to save sea turtles.

Lingua Franca reflects on the beauty of the Icelandic language.

The Map Room Blog shares an awesome map depicting the locations of the stars around which we have detected exoplanets.

Marginal Revolution notes the ill health of North Korean defectors, infected with parasites now unseen in South Korea.

Roads and Kingdoms reports on the revival of fonio, a West African grain that is now starting to see successful marketing in Senegal.

Spacing reviews a fascinating book examining the functioning of urban villages embedded in the metropoli of south China.

Strange Company reports on the mysterious 1920 murder of famous bridge player Joseph Bowne Elwell.

Towleroad reports on Larnelle Foster, a gay black man who was a close friend of Meghan Markle in their college years.

Window on Eurasia notes that, although Ukraine suffered the largest number of premature dead in the Stalinist famines of the 1930s, Kazakhstan suffered the greatest proportion of dead.

Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell has a photo essay looking at the Berlin Brandenburg Airport, still years away from completion and beset by many complex failures of its advanced systems. What does the failure of this complex system say about others we may wish to build?

This examination by Bendetta Rossi of the ways in which immigration, in the context of the United Kingdom, has to remain an option even in the Brexit era is compelling. Open Democracy has more here.

This Nicolas Lainez study suggesting that Vietnamese migrants in the United Kingdom rescued from exploitative conditions might be made the worse off by the rescue, plunging them and their backers into debt, is distressing. How should they be helped? More here at Open Democracy.

Nicholas Keung describes how Canadian meat packers want their foreign labour forces to enjoy permanent resident status, so that they can have access to stable and reliable populations of workers. The Toronto Star has it.

Mary Ormsby describes how North Korean migrants in Toronto are facing the risk of deportation, to South Korea. More here, at the Toronto Star.

The Canadian federal government and Atlantic Canadian provincial governments have introduced a new program to try to direct more immigrants to the east coast. The Toronto Star has the article.

The Broadside Blog's Caitlyn Kelly talks about the rejuvenating effects of "forest bathing". I quite agree, myself.

Centauri Dreams looks at the idea of Project Blue, a dedicated astronomy satellite to look for exoplanets at Alpha Centauri.

D-Brief notes that astrophysicists have verified an eclipse described in the Bible circa 1207 BCE.

The Dragon's Gaze links to another KIC 8462852 study, finding its dimming is best explained by circumstellar debris.

The Everyday Sociology Blog notes the importance of being careful with the use of numbers.

Far Outliers explores how Singapore managed to position itself as a safe destination for tourists visiting Asia.

Language Hat links to a beautiful passage from Kim Stanley Robinson's Aurora on the messiness of language.

Language Log takes a look at the phenomenon of headlessness in the propaganda of North Korea.

The NYR Daily looks at the sad short life of Stanwix Melville.

The Planetary Society Blog shares multiple images, with multiple perspectives, of Giordano Bruno crater on the Moon.

Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw finds the use of Section 44 of the Australian Constitution to disqualify politicians as dual nationals ridiculous.

Cheri Lucas Rowlands shares some beautiful photos of Saint-Tropez.

Arnold Zwicky meditates on language, moving from the strange names of the parts of flowers to the X-Men.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait notes the import of comet A/2017U1, a potential visitor from another planetary system, while Centauri Dreams also takes a look.
The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly celebrates Montréal's Atwater Market, with photos.

Bruce Dorminey notes one report that Ceres' primordial ocean may have mixed with its surface, to make a world covered in salty mud.

The Map Room Blog links to an interactive French-language map looking at census data on different neighbourhoods in different cities.

The New APPS Blog looks at the changing role of the judiciary as enforcing of order in a privatized world.

The NYR Daily wonders if North Korea's government has firm control over its nuclear weapons, given American issues.

The Planetary Society Blog notes the expansion of Google Maps to other worlds in our solar system.

The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer examines the situation facing Catalonia, and Spain, after the UDI.

Roads and Kingdoms takes a photographic look at Little Mogadishu, a Somali neighbourhood in Kampala, Uganda.

Rocky Planet notes the ongoing risk of a major volcanic eruption at Tinakula, in the Solomon Islands.

Understanding Society takes a look at the role and functioning of overlapping social identities.

Anthropology.net notes evidence that injured Neanderthals were cared for by their kin.

James Bow shares a photo of Ottawa at night and considers the growing city with its greenbelt.

Centauri Dreams reacts to the immense discoveries surrounding GW170817.

Crooked Timber considers the vexed nature of the phrase "Judeo-Christian."

Bruce Dorminey notes an American government study suggesting a North Korean EMP attack could cause collapse.

Hornet Stories reports that Russian pop singer Zelimkhan Bakaev has been murdered in Chechnya as part of the anti-gay purges.

Language Hat looks at lunfardo, the Italian-inflicted argot of Buenos Aires.

Lawyers, Guns and Money notes that, with Trump undermining the US, the prospects of China's rise to define the new world order are looking good.

The NYR Daily looks at reports of significant electoral fraud in Kenya.

Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw looks at the continuing Australian reaction to China's Belt and Road project.

Roads and Kingdoms reports from Sichuan's peppercorn fields at harvest time.

Drew Rowsome responds to Andrew Pyper's new novel, The Only Child.

Strange Company looks at the mysterious 1900 murder of New Yorker Kathryn Scharn.

Strange Maps looks at an ingenious, if flawed, map of the Berlin metro dating from the 1920s.

Peter Watts considers the question of individual identity over time. What changes, what stays the same?

Window on Eurasia notes that a shift from their native languages to Russian will not end minority ethnic identities.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait notes the discovery of activity on distant comet
C/2017 K2.

Centauri Dreams notes a new proposal for an orbital telescope that could detect Earth-like worlds at Alpha Centauri A and B.

D-Brief notes a new research finding that chimpanzees can learn to use tools on their own, without teaching.

Dangerous Minds notes the interesting Detroit character of Gundella, the Green Witch of Detroit.

Language Log tries to decipher some garbled Hebrew at an American wedding.

The LRB Blog looks at the continued aftershocks, social and otherwise, from the recent earthquake in Mexico.

Marginal Revolution argues that North Korea is set to become more China's problem than the United States'.

Roads and Kingdoms notes the simple pleasures of soy milk in China.

Seriously Science notes a study looking at the different factors in the personalities of cats.

Towleroad notes the recent discovery of an antibody effective against 99% or so variants of HIV.

Window on Eurasia argues Russian politics play a central role in getting Russophones in Ukraine to become Ukrainian.

io9 looks at the surprising things we are continuing to learn from Tycho's supernova, SN 1572. https://gizmodo.com/a-famous-supernovas-mysteries-are-still-unraveling-hund-1818816208

Anthrodendum has a thoughtful interview between two anthropologists about their experiences as ethnographers. https://savageminds.org/2017/09/25/explaining-ethnography-in-the-field-a-conversation-between-pasang-yangjee-sherpa-and-carole-mcgranahan/

Centauri Dreams reports on the LIGO/VIRGO detection of gravitational wave #GW170814 https://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=38557
D-Brief also notes the detection of #GW170814 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2017/09/27/gravitational-wave-virgo/
as does Starts With A Bang https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2017/09/27/ligo-virgo-detects-the-first-three-detector-gravitational-wave/

The Crux notes how ancient rocks on the Québec-Labrador frontier have preserved traces of very early life. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2017/09/27/earth-oldest-rocks-life/

D-Brief notes the potential discovery of a biomarker for CTE, something that may well help professional athletes. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2017/09/27/cte-biomarker/

Dangerous Minds looks at the time the Pet Shop Boys and Liza Minelli collaborated on an album. http://dangerousminds.net/comments/results_when_the_pet_shop_boys_met_liza_minnelli

The Dragon's Gaze looks at evidence that a sub-Saturn gas giant is forming around T Tauri star TW Hydrae. http://thedragonsgaze.blogspot.ca/2017/09/tw-hydrae-is-forming-subsaturn-gas-giant.html

Hornet Stories looks at the four lessons a professor took from gay porn, about sexuality and its representation. https://hornetapp.com/stories/gay-porn-professor/

Language Log looks at how Joseon Korea once used the wrong Chinese dialect to talk officially to China. http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=34693

Lawyers, Guns and Money notes an odd defense of Hugh Hefner by a conservative. http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2017/09/hugh-hefner-good-now

The LRB Blog notes the oddly convention nature of Hugh Hefner. https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2017/09/28/august-kleinzahler/the-conventional-mr-hefner/

The Map Room Blog argues that faults found with fantasy maps actually reflect deeper issues with fantasy literature. http://www.maproomblog.com/2017/09/the-territory-is-not-the-map/

Marginal Revolution notes that IBM employs more people In India than in the United States.
http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2017/09/india-fact-day-3.html

The NYR Daily notes a new art exhibition of work by Peter Saul dealing with Trump. http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2017/09/27/a-carnival-of-desecration-peter-saul-trump/

The Planetary Society Blog notes the Earth pictures taken by the OSIRIS-REx probe. http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2017/0928-earth-flyby-osiris-rex.html

The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer notes a worrying new analysis justifying an American strike on North Korea, despite Seoul. http://noelmaurer.typepad.com/aab/2017/09/the-hawks-make-their-case-to-fight-north-korea.html

Drew Rowsome notes an amusing-sounding mystery, Undercover, playing at the Tarragon. http://drewrowsome.blogspot.ca/2017/09/undercover-case-of-comic-mystery.html

Towleroad links to fascinating ethnographic work of LGBT members of American street gangs. How do they do it? http://www.towleroad.com/2017/09/gay-gang/

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