[BLOG] Some Thursday links
- Apostrophen’s ‘Nathan Smith points to his blog post about the strengths of the chosen families of queer people, in life and in his fiction.
- Beyond the Beyond’s Bruce Sterling revisits the politics behind France’s Minitel network, archaic yet pioneering.
- The Broadside Blog’s Caitlin Kelly blogs about meeting her online friends in real life. Frankly, it would never occur to me not to do that.
- Centauri Dreams looks at how Kepler’s exoplanets fall neatly into separate classes, super-Earths and mini-Neptunes.
- The LRB Blog has a terrible report from Grenfell Tower, surrounded by betrayed survivors and apocalypse.
- The Map Room Blog notes the inclusion of Canada’s First Nations communities on Google Maps.
- The NYRB Daily’s Robert Cottrell explores the banalities revealed by Oliver Stone’s interviews of Putin.
- The Planetary Society Blog’s Jason Davis considers the likely gains and challenges associated with missions to the ice giants of Uranus and Neptune.
- Towleroad notes the new Alan Cumming film After Louie, dealing with a romance between an ACT-UP survivor and a younger man
- The Volokh Conspiracy’s Ilya Somin does not find much good coming from Trump’s announced Cuba policy.
- Window on Eurasia warns about the threat posed by Orthodox Christian fundamentalists in Russia.
Written by Randy McDonald
June 22, 2017 at 2:30 pm
Posted in Assorted, Demographics, Economics, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Science, Social Sciences
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