[BLOG] Some Friday links

• Architectuul looks at the Portuguese architectural cooperative Ateliermob, here.
• Bad Astronomer Phil Plait looks at how white dwarf WD J091405.30+191412.25 is literally vapourizing a planet in close orbit.
• Caitlin Kelly at the Broadside Blog explains</a< to readers why you really do not want to have to look for parking in New York City.
• Centauri Dreams looks at the slowing of the solar wind far from the Sun.
• John Holbo at Crooked Timber considers the gap between ideals and actuals in the context of conspiracies and politics.
• The Dragon’s Tales reports on how the ESA is trying to solve a problem with the parachutes of the ExoMars probe.
• Far Outliers reports on what Harry Truman thought about politicians.
• Gizmodo reports on a new method for identifying potential Earth-like worlds.
• io9 pays tribute to legendary writer, of Star Trek and much else, D.C. Fontana.
• The Island Review reports on the football team of the Chagos Islands.
• Joe. My. God. reports that gay Olympian Gus Kenworthy will compete for the United Kingdom in 2020.
• JSTOR Daily looks at how early English imperialists saw America and empire through the lens of Ireland.
• Paul Campos at Lawyers, Guns and Money does not like Pete Buttigieg.
• The LRB Blog looks at the London Bridge terrorist attack.
• The Map Room Blog shares a map of Prince William Sound, in Alaska, that is already out of date because of global warming.
• Marginal Revolution questions if Cebu, in the Philippines, is the most typical city in the world.
• The NYR Daily looks at gun violence among Arab Israelis.
• The Planetary Society Blog considers what needs to be researched next on Mars.
• Roads and Kingdoms tells the story of Sister Gracy, a Salesian nun at work in South Sudan.
• The Russian Demographics Blog shares a paper noting continued population growth expected in much of Europe, and the impact of this growth on the environment.
• Strange Maps shares a map of fried chicken restaurants in London.
• Starts With A Bang’s Ethan Siegel explains why a 70 solar mass black hole is not unexpected.
• John Scalzi at Whatever gives</a his further thoughts on the Pixel 4.
• Window on Eurasia notes that, last year, 37 thousand Russians died of HIV/AIDS.
• Arnold Zwicky starts from a consideration of the 1948 film Kind Hearts and Coronets.

[BLOG] Some Thursday links

• The Big Picture shares photos of the South Sudanese refugee exodus into Uganda.
• blogTO shares an ad for a condo rental on Dovercourt Road near me, only $1800 a month.
• Centauri Dreams reports on the idea of using waste heat to detect extraterrestrial civilizations.
• Crooked Timber uses the paradigm of Jane Jacobs’ challenge to expert in the context of Brexit.
• The LRB Blog reports on the fishers of Senegal and their involvement in that country’s history of emigration.
• The Planetary Society Blog shares an image comparing Saturn’s smaller moons.
• The Volokh Conspiracy comes out in support of taking down Confederate monuments.
• Window on Eurasia suggests Chechens are coming out ahead of Daghestanis in the North Caucasus’ religious hierarchies, and argues that Putin cannot risk letting Ukraine become a model for Russia.
• Arnold Zwicky looks at various bowdlerizations of Philip Larkin’s famous quote about what parents do to their children.

[BLOG] Some Monday links

• BAG News Notes wonders whether a photo taken in Aleppo showing a group of rebels in the second that a shell explodes among them is good journalism, or if it’s exploitative.
• Crooked Timber’s Henry Farrell notes that the European Central Bank is going to have to walk a very fine line, trying to prevent Eurozone creditor nation-states like Germany from leaving the common currency even as it tries to keep things from getting too bad for the debtors.
• Eastern Approaches notes that the ongoing problems with the European Union, particularly the meltdown of Greece, is making the long-term goal of including the western Balkans in Europe that much more problematic.
• Daniel Drezner suggests that Romney’s foreign policy preferences could help him lose the election, drawing on polls suggesting that Americans don’t want a confrontational foreign policy.
• Nicholas Baldo at Geocurrents discusses South Sudan’s costly decision to shift its capital from the existing city of Juba to the purpose-built capital of Ranciel.
• At the Global Sociology Blog, the case of South African runner Caster Semenya, currently taking hormonal treatments to bring her physiology closer to the female norm, and connects it with Kurt Vonnegut’s fictional character of Harrison Bergeron, forced to be average.
• GNXP’s Razib Khan discusses the implications of recent DNA studies suggesting ancient and relatively important northeast Asian ancestry in the northern European population, and scenarios for prehistoric migrations.
• A Language Hat post wondering why the Georgian word for “dolphin” comes directly from the Greek leads to fascinating discussion about etymologies of names of marine creatures. (Apparently “sea pig” is used to denote dolphin in any number of Old World languages.
• Towleroad reports that the same-sex marriage ceremonies devised by American Conservative Jews might influence some heterosexual couples, on account of their gender-egalitarianism.
• The Volokh Conspiracy’s Todd Zywicki notes that Honduras is set to launch its charter cities, privately-run and largely autonomous communities that–it is supposed–will provide a fertile climate for economic growth in an unstable country. Commenters are skeptical about the idea on many grounds.