[NEWS] Five culture links: archeology in Canada, Baker Boy, Threads, Ukrainian churches, Kanopy

• Archeology in Canada is starting to take a leading role in the reconciliation process with First Nations. The Globe and Mail reports.
• Baker Boy, an Australian Aborigine rapper from the Milingimbi community, is becoming a star with his raps in his native Yolngu Matha language. (Touring with 50 Cent is an achievement.) Australia’s SBS carries the story.
• Threads, the infamous 1984 British film depicting the aftermath of nuclear war, is coming to Blu-ray. VICE’s Motherboard reports.
• Andrei Fert writes at Open Democracy about how, after the appalling refusal of a priest in a Moscow-aligned Ukrainian Orthodox church to preside over the burial of a toddler baptized into a Kyiv-aligned church, that whole denomination is coming into disrepute.
• blogTO notes the introduction, by the Toronto Public Library, of a new video streaming service, Kanopy, offering more than thirty thousand movies free to members.

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[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

• Bad Astronomer Phil Plait looks at the bizarre extrasolar visitor ‘Oumuamua, as does Centauri Dreams, as does Bruce Dorminey. Yes, this long cylindrical extrasolar visitor swinging around the sun on a hyperbolic orbit does evoke classic SF.
• The Boston Globe’s The Big Picture shares some photos of autumn from around the world.
• D-Brief examines how artificial intelligences are making their own videos, albeit strange and unsettling ones.
• Dangerous Minds shares some Alfred Stieglitz photos of Georgia O’Keefe.
• Daily JSTOR takes a look at the mulberry tree craze in the United States.
• The Dragon’s Gaze links to a paper examining at water delivery to terrestrial planets in other solar systems. Worlds with as little water as Earth are apparently difficult to produce in this model.
• Hornet Stories profiles the gay destination of Puerto Vallarta, in Mexico.
• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the new vulnerability of Haitian migrants in the United States.
• The LRB Blog notes the end of the Mugabe era in Zimbabwe.
• The NYR Daily features a stellar Elaine Showalter review of a Sylvia Plath exhibition at the Smithsonian National Picture Gallery.
• Personal Reflections’ Jim Belshaw reports on how the production of New England Cheese reflects the modernization of Australian agriculture.
• Roads and Kingdoms reports on the awkward position of Rohingya refugees in India, in Jammu, at a time when they are facing existential pressures from all sides.
• Starts With A Bang’s Ethan Siegel shares twenty beautiful photos of Mars.
• Towleroad shares a fun video from Pink, “Beautiful Trauma”, featuring Channing Tatum.
• The Volokh Conspiracy notes that a Trump executive order threatening sanctuary cities has been overturned in court.
• Window on Eurasia notes one study claiming that the children of immigrant workers in Russia tend to do better than children of native-born Russians.

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

• Anthrodendum takes a look at the way community knowledge is now being subject to a privatization.
• The Broadside Blog’s Caitlyn Kelly starts a discussion about what makes home.
• Bruce Dorminey suggests a pre-Theia, Moon-sized impactor gave the Earth its metal crust.
• The Dragon’s Gaze looks at the current state of knowledge about Proxima b.
• The Dragon’s Tales notes that Russia is apparently testing advanced nuclear weapons.
• The Frailest Thing’s Michael Sacasas considers the religious impulse in so many technophiles’ view of the world.
• Language Hat considers the dynamics associated with learning minority languages in Europe.
• Lawyers, Guns and Money shares a classic traffic safety clip from 1913.
• The LRB Blog mourns the loss of Glen Newey, long-time contributor.
• Lovesick Cyborg notes a NASA study into the economics of a viable space-based solar power project.
• Roads and Kingdoms takes a look at the açorda of Portugal, a bread-based broth that was a long-time food of the poor.
• Cheri Lucas Rowlands celebrates the passage of summer into fall through photos of her vegetable garden.
• Drew Rowsome takes a look at the representation of LGBTQ people on television, and sees much reason for cheer.
• Science Sushi notes that different dolphin groups seem to have different dialects.
• Understanding Society takes a look at Robert Merton’s refinement of social functionalism.
• Window on Eurasia notes that many ethnic Russians in Belarus, as in Ukraine, have shifted identity to that of the titular nation.
• Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell notes one mistake made about artificial intelligence: it is not automatically more accurate.

[BLOG] Some Monday links

• Centauri Dreams links to archival video painstakingly collected from the Voyager missions.
• Citizen Science Salon notes ways ordinary people can use satellite imagery for archaeological purposes.
• Good news: Asian carp can’t find a fin-hold in Lake Michigan. Bad news: The lake is so food-deprived nothing lives there. The Crux reports.
• D-Brief notes that, once every second, a fast radio burst occurs somewhere in the universe.
• Dangerous Minds looks at the psychedelic retro-futurism of Swedish artist Kilian Eng.
• Dead Things notes the recovery of ancient human DNA from some African sites, and what this could mean for study.
• Cody Delistraty reconsiders the idea of the “coming of age” narrative. Does this make sense now that we have abandoned the idea of a unitary self?
• The Dragon’s Gaze links to a paper examining the evolution of icy bodies around different post-main sequence stars.
• The Great Grey Bridge’s Philip Turner notes anti-Putin dissident Alexei Navalny.
• Hornet Stories notes reports of anti-gay persecution in Azerbaijan.
• Language Log takes a look at the dialectal variations of southern Ohio.
• Lawyers, Guns and Money starts a discussion about what effective disaster relief for Puerto Rico would look like.
• The LRB Blog looks at the aftermath of the recent earthquake in Mexico, and the story of the buried girl who was not there.
• Marginal Revolution notes that Toronto real estate companies, in light of rent control, are switching rental units over to condos.
• Naked Anthropologist Laura Agustín takes a look at the origins and stories of migrant sex workers.
• The NYR Daily talks about the supposedly unthinkable idea of nuclear war in the age of Trump.
• Drew Rowsome gives a strongly positive–and deserved review to the Minmar Gaslight show The Seat Next to the King, a Fringe triumph now playing at the Theatre Centre.
• Starts With A Bang’s Ethan Siegel explains how so many outer-system icy worlds have liquid water.
• Towleroad features Jim Parsons’ exploration of how important is for him, as a gay man, to be married.
• Window on Eurasia suggests Russian language policy limiting minority languages in education could backfire, and wonders if Islamization one way people in an urbanizing North Caucasus are trying to remain connected to community.

[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.

[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

• Bad Astronomer Phil Plait notes how data mining of stellar surveys led to the discovery of a new star type, the BLAP.
• The Broadside Blog’s Caitlin Kelly tells about her enjoyable recent stay at Fire Island.
• Centauri Dreams notes the latest maneuvers of asteroid probe OSIRIS-REx.
• The Dragon’s Gaze links to a paper considering oxygen in exoplanet atmospheres as a biomarker.
• Joe. My. God. notes how racist Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio is upset at being called a racist.
• Language Log notes how China censored images of the Tibetan-language tattoo of MMA fighter Dan Hardy.
• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes how deportees to Mexico are beset by that country’s crime syndicates.
• Marginal Revolution links to a paper considering how many sellers a market needs to be competitive.
• The New APPS Blog considers the racism of Donald Trump in the light of Agamben’s concept of the homo sacer.
• Personal Reflections’ Jim Belshaw considers the issue of monuments in Australia in the context of Aborigines’ sufferings by the subjects memorialized.
• The Planetary Society Blog shows the Jupiter approach videos taken by the Voyager probes.
• Towleroad explains why Diana, with her embrace of (among other things) fashion and AIDS victims, is a gay icon.
• Arnold Zwicky notes the official registration in Scotland of a tartan for LGBT people.

[BLOG] Some Saturday links

• Anthrodendum considers the question of what, exactly, is the genre of ethnographic film.
• Centauri Dreams features authors’ calls for a debate on METI, on sending messages to extraterrestrial intelligences.
• The Crux reports on the continuing damage caused by the continuing eruptions of Indonesia’s mud volcano, Sidoarjo.
• Imageo shares a cute time-lapse video from Hubble showing the motion of Phobos around Mars.
• Language Hat responds to a newly-translated mid-19th century Russian novella, Nadezhda Khvoshchinskaya‘s 1861 novella Пансионерка (The Boarding School Girl).
• Lawyers, Guns and Money has a depressing extended examination of Trump as reflecting structural crisis in the United States.
• The LRB Blog looks at the genesis and continuing success of Nicaraguan Sign Language.
• The Map Room Blog shares a satirical map of Washington D.C., defined by the names that its metro stations should have.
• Ethan Siegel at Starts With A Bang lists the various worlds in our Solar System possibly hosting life, and notes how you could get an Earth-like world with wildly erratic seasons as in Game of Thrones.
• Unicorn Booty notes that the German president has signed marriage equality into law. (Also, the country has good LGBT protections.)
• Window on Eurasia notes that Putin is fine with an asymmetrical bilingualism in Russia’s republics, aimed against non-Russian languages.