[BLOG] Some Friday links

• Zoe Todd at {anthro}dendum writes about white hostility in academia, specifically directed towards her Indigenous background.
• Architectuul writes about 3650 Days, a book celebrating a architectural festival in Sarajevo.
• Bruce Dorminey notes a proposal to look for Planet Nine by examining its impact on the local microwave background, legacy of the Big Bang.
• L.M. Sacasas at The Frailest Thing considers the relationship between the natural and the artificial.
• This remarkable essay at Gizmodo explains how the random selection of locations on maps by cartographers can create real-world problems for people who live near these arbitrary points.
• Language Log looks at a visual pun in a recent K-Pop song.
• Conrad Landin at the LRB Blog bids farewell to HMV, a store done in perhaps as much by predatory capitalism as by the changing music business.
• Marginal Revolution notes the impact of the federal government shutdown on Washington D.C.
• James Kirchick writes at the NYR Blog about pioneering activist Frank Kameny and his fight against the idea of a cure for gayness.
• Speed River Journal’s Van Waffle shares a recipe for a quick Asian peanut soup, with photo.
• Starts With A Bang’s Ethan Siegel explains why a particular lava flow has blue lava.
• Window on Eurasia notes that the new Ukrainian Orthodox Church, by virtue of its independence and sheer size, will be a major player in the Orthodox world.
• Arnold Zwicky starts one post by noting how certain long-necked kitchenware bears a striking resemblance to extinct dinosaurs.