• Centauri Dreams reports on asteroid P/2016 G1, a world that, after splitting, is now showing signs of a cometary tail.
• The Everyday Sociology Blog considers outrage as a sociological phenomenon. What, exactly, does it do? What does it change?
• Joe. My. God. reports on a new push for same-sex marriage in Germany, coming from the SPD.
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• Bad Astronomy shares a video imagining of how Cassini will meet its end with Saturn.
• Cody Delistraty shares an interview with Rebecca Solnit.
• Far Outliers reports on Margaret Thatcher's unorthodox campaign in 1979.
• Joe. My. God. shares Hillary Clinton's thanks to her 66 million voters.
• Marginal Revolution looks at gender stereotypes among scientists.

• Bad Astronomy reports on the astounding scientific illiteracy of Trump advisor Anthony Scaramucci.
• blogTO compiles a list of the best tobagganing hills in Toronto.
• Citizen Science Salon looks at what we can do in the redwood forests.
• The Dragon's Gaze notes a gap in the disk of TW Hydrae.
• Imageo notes that 2016 is the warmest year in the records.

• Antipope's Charlie Stross fears the arrival of fascism in Britain after the murder of Jo Cox.
• Centauri Dreams reports on SDSSJ1043+0855, a white dwarf apparently consuming a rocky planet.
• The Crux notes discussion of terraforming Mars.
• The Dragon's Tales notes the revealing result of a study of the crops that ancient Indonesians brought to Madagascar.
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• Beyond the Beyond considers the floating mountains of Pluto.
• The Boston Globe's Big Picture notes the story of a church that transitioned from an old-style church building to a storefront.
• blogTO shares a photo of the Gardiner Expressway, closed for construction.
• Centauri Dreams considers the search for life around red giant stars.
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• Charlie Stross at Antipope wonders what subtle techniques could be used to sabotage a modern technology firm.
• Bad Astronomy notes the work that went into determining the origins of a high-energy neutrino.
• blogTO praises the Toronto Islands.
• Imageo shares this unsettling graphic depicting rising global temperatures over time.
• The Map Room notes, using ( Read more... )

• blogTO notes that April has been the snowiest month this year.
• D-Brief notes that we are on the verge of a literal explosion in gravitational wave astronomy detection.
• The Dragon's Tales examines Maya water management.
• Far Outliers notes the 1709 rescue of Alexander Selkirk from a desert island, one of the inspirations behind Robinson Crusoe.
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Bloomberg View's Leonid Bershidsky notes why Ukrainian leaders in early 2014 chose not to respond militarily to the Russian invasion of Crimea, and why Russia did what it did.

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• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly asks what readers are reading.
• Centauri Dreams looks at the miraculous way gravitational lensing can refract supernovas.
• The Dragon's Gaze notes the compplex HD 100546 system.
• The Dragon's Tales looks at the dinosaurs of ancient South Africa.
• Geocurrents looks back on the past year.

• blogTO notes that a TTC driver has been caught on video ... doing pushups.
• Centauri Dreams looks at the discovery of distant dwarf planet V774104.
• The Dragon's Gaze reports that white dwarf SDSS1228+1040 is surrounded by a ring of shattered planets.
• The Dragon's Tales notes widespread German espionage on allies, undermining somewhat German official ( Read more... )