Bad Astronomer Phil Plait talks about the discovery that the early Moon had a notable atmosphere.
http://www.syfy.com/syfywire/air-de-luneThe Big Picture, from the Boston Globe, shares terrifying pictures from the California wildfires.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/bigpicture/2017/10/10/raging-wildfires-california/GtkTUeIILcZeqp5jlsLTMI/story.htmlThe Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly talks about how writers need editing, and editors.
https://broadsideblog.wordpress.com/2017/10/14/why-editors-matter-more-than-ever/D-Brief notes that forming coal beds sucked so much carbon dioxide out of the air that it triggered an ice age.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2017/10/10/coal-earth-ice/Dangerous Minds looks at Michael's Thing, a vintage guide to gay New York dating from the 1970s.
http://dangerousminds.net/comments/michaels_thing_new_york_citys_once_essential_queer_city_guideCody Delistraty looks at a new Paris exhibition of the works of Paul Gauguin that tries to deal with his moral sketchiness, inspiration of much his work.
https://delistraty.com/2017/10/09/paul-gauguins-insurmountable-immorality/Hornet Stories notes that same same-sex-attracted guys opt to be called not gay but androphiles. (Less baggage, they say.)
https://hornetapp.com/stories/men-who-love-men-androphile/Language Hat notes a claim that the Spanish of Christopher Columbus was marked by Catalan.
http://languagehat.com/columbuss-catalan/Language Log notes that the languages of southern China like Cantonese are actually fully-fledged languages.
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=34933Lawyers, Guns and Money notes an argument that Chinese companies do not abide by the terms of tech transfer agreements.
http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2017/10/tech-transferThe LRB Blog notes an old Mike Davis article noting how California, at a time of climate change, risks catastrophic wildfires.
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2017/10/10/the-editors/california-burning/The Map Room Blog is unimpressed by the new book, A History of Canada in Ten Maps. (It needs more maps. Seriously.)
https://buff.ly/2gcdLKGThe NYR Daily takes another look at the nature of consciousness.
http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2017/10/09/consciousness-an-object-lesson/The Planetary Society Blog shares a scientist's story about how he stitched together the last mosaic photo of Saturn by Cassini.
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/guest-blogs/2017/cassinis-last-dance-with-saturn-farewell-mosaic.htmlThe Power and the Money's Noel Maurer notes that an unnegotiated secession of Catalonia from Spain would be a catastrophe for the new country.
http://noelmaurer.typepad.com/aab/2017/10/la-econom%C3%ADa-de-la-secesi%C3%B3n-en-la-madre-patria.htmlRoads and Kingdoms considers what is next for Kurdistan after its independence referendum.
http://roadsandkingdoms.com/2017/whats-next-for-kurdistan/Science Sushi considers the sketchy science of studying cetacean sex.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/science-sushi/2017/10/10/dolphin-penis-vagina-simulated-marine-mammal-sex/Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel notes that exceptionally strong evidence that we do, in fact, exist in a real multiverse.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2017/10/12/the-multiverse-is-inevitable-and-were-living-in-it/Strange Maps looks at rates of reported corruption across Latin America, finding that Mexico fares badly.
http://bigthink.com/strange-maps/half-of-all-mexicans-paid-a-bribe-in-the-previous-12-monthsWindow on Eurasia notes new inflows of migrants to Russia include fewer Europeans and many more Central Asians.
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