[BLOG] Some Friday links

• Architectuul looks, on the 1st of November, at the patterns of light in cemeteries around the world.
• Bad Astronomy looks at the authentically blue comet C/2016 R2 (Pan-STARRS), here.
• The Broadside Blog’s Caitlin Kelly shares some photos that she took looking around her world, here.
• Centauri Dreams considers prospects for a Pluto orbiter.
• Chris Bertram at Crooked Timber considers, in the spirit of A Modest Proposal, whether we should go on from those people who would block migration to rich countries on ecological grounds to start deporting people from rich countries to poorer ones.
• The Crux looks at which Voyager instruments are still communicating with NASA.
• D-Brief answers the question of why different bird eggs come in different colours. (Temperature is key.)
• Bruce Dorminey looks to researchers suggesting that extrasolar Earths will also have lightning, maybe even detectable lightning.
• Imageo shares a beautiful photo of moonrise at sunrise as seen from the ISS.
• The Island Review interviews Paul Murton about his visits to different islands and island groups in Scotland.
• JSTOR Daily looks at the Sailor Moon transformation sequence, and its role in toy marketing.
• Language Hat looks at the origins of the Russian dance cachucha in Cuban Spanish.
• Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns and Money considers whether contemporary capitalism is capable of supporting high-quality journalism.
• Marginal Revolution shares a paper suggesting declining incentives for men to marry are linked to male withdrawal from the labour force.
• Sean Marshall reports on a bus trip to Ottawa that took him to, among other places, Pembroke.
• Peter Watts wonders, briefly, what all the fuss is with Meghan Murphy, when so many of her contentions are either wrong or simply irrelevant.
• The NYR Daily looks at how Brexit has reopened the question of Northern Ireland.
• The Signal looks at the sorts and volumes of graphics that get requested from its archives.
• Starts With A Bang’s Ethan Siegel looks at what we have learned from interstellar comets ‘Oumuamua and Borisov.
• Window on Eurasia warns that Central Asia’s Lake Issyk-Kul, like the Aral Sea, might also dry up.