[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.

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[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.

[ISL] Five articles from the Toronto Islands in this time of flood

• blogTO shares Aidan Ferreira’s stunning photos of the Toronto Islands flooded out. The damage, especially to the beaches, looks severe.
• CTV News shares remarkable drone footage of the Toronto Islands.
• The Toronto Sun reports on the plight of the water taxi operators, unable to earn their living this summer with trips to the Islands.
• The Toronto Star‘s Fatima Syed notes that, to stay afloat, the Centreville Amusement Park will be selling its beautiful antique carousel.
• Katharine Laidlaw’s interviews in Toronto Life with Toronto Islanders tell the story of a very hard year.

[NEWS] Four links about queer history, from the National Park Service to the Globe to New York City

• The National Park Service’s LGBTQ Heritage Theme Study is an amazingly thorough survey of sites and stories of note.
• In The Globe and Mail, Stephanie Chambers explores how the history of homophobia recorded in her newspaper’s old articles.
• Back2Stonewall shares rare archival footage of the 1970 Christopher Street Liberation Day parade, ancestor of Pride.
• The New Yorker’s Daniel Penny tells the story of Joseph Touchette, at 93 the oldest drag queen in Greenwich Village.

[BLOG] Some Pride Day blog links

• Joe. My. God. has reposted a famous, fantastic contemporary New York Daily News article about the Stonewall Riots.
• James Leahy’s clips of Toronto Pride parades from 1988 through 1995 are great. h/t to Leahy and to Shawn Micallef of Spacing for sharing them.
• Arnold Zwicky has collated some photos of Pride rainbows on Chicago and Dublin transit buses and on some boots.

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

• D-Brief considers if gas giant exoplanet Kelt-9b is actually evaporating.
• The Dragon’s Gaze links to a paper that considers where to find signs of prior indigenous civilizations in our solar system. (The Moon, Mars, and outer solar system look good.)
• Joe. My. God. reveals the Israeli nuclear option in the 1967 war.
• Language Log shares a clip of a Nova Scotia Gaelic folktale about a man named Donald.
• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the ongoing deportations of Hispanic undocumented migrants from the United States.
• The LRB Blog notes the brittle rhetoric of May and the Conservatives.
• The NYRB Daily mourns the Trump Administration’s plans for American education.
• Savage Minds considers the world now in the context of the reign of the dangerous nonsense of Neil Postman.
• Strange Maps shares a map documenting the spread of chess from India to Ireland in a millennium.
• Window on Eurasia argues that the Russian government needs to do more to protect minority languages.