[BLOG] Some Tuesday links
- Acts of Minor Treason’s Andrew Barton reacts to the series premiere of Orville, finding it oddly retrograde and unoriginal.
- Centauri Dreams shares Larry Klaes’ article considering the impact of the 1956 classic Forbidden Planet on science and science fiction alike.
- The Dragon’s Gaze links to a paper wondering if it is by chance that Earth orbits a yellow dwarf, not a dimmer star.
- Drone360 shares a stunning video of a drone flying into Hurricane Irma.
- Hornet Stories celebrates the 10th anniversary of Chris Crocker’s “Leave Britney Alone!” video. (It was important.)
- Lawyers, Guns and Money wonders if 16 years are long enough to let people move beyond taboo images, like those of the jumpers.
- The LRB Blog takes a look at the young Dreamers, students, who have been left scrambling by the repeal of DACA.
- The Map Room Blog notes how a Québec plan to name islands in the north created by hydro flooding after literature got complicated by issues of ethnicity and language.
- Marginal Revolution notes the rise of internal tourism in China, and soon, of Chinese tourists in the wider world.
- The NYR Daily has an interview arguing that the tendency to make consciousness aphysical or inexplicable is harmful to proper study.
- Roads and Kingdoms has a brief account of a good experience with Indonesian wine.
- Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell links to five reports about Syria. They are grim reading.
Written by Randy McDonald
September 12, 2017 at 8:30 pm
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