• 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.
• Lawyers, Guns and ( Read more... )

• blogTO notes that the redevelopment of Toronto's Port Lands is continuing.
• Crooked Timber argues that climate denialism exposes the socially constructed nature of property rights.
• D-Brief notes the reburial of Kennewick Man.
• The Dragon's Gaze notes there is no sign of a second planet around Proxima Centauri.
• Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at life in ( Read more... )

• The Crux makes the case that, for too long, modern homo sapiens have underestimated the genius of the Neanderthals.
• D-Brief looks at the efforts of some scientists to develop brewing standards for the Moon.
• Language Hat examines different languages' writing standards--Turkish, Greek, Armenian--in the late Ottoman Empire.
• Language Log deconstructs ( Read more... )

The New Scientist's Clare Wilson reports on a massive drop in new HIV infections in London that is more easily explained by growing use of PrEP, the prophylactic use of new HIV drugs to prevent infections.

Gay men who defied medical advice seem to have changed the course of the HIV epidemic in the UK - for the better ( Read more... )

• Bad Astronomy shares a photo of the Earth and Moon taken by a Mars probe.
• Lawyers, Guns and Money responds to a baffling claim by a New York City policeman that stranger rape is more of a concern than acquaintance rape.
• Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw, returned from Denmark, wondersabout the extent to which social happiness is maximized by ( Read more... )

Open Democracy hosts Yessika Gonzalez's article looking at the queering of the Argentine tango.

With the internationalization of tango, its slum origins were forgotten and a strictly codified dance was exported with clearly defined roles between man and woman. In the traditional milongas-the venues where people in Argentina go to tango-women ( Read more... )

• blogTO notes that a Vancouver nerd bar is opening up shop in Toronto.
• Dangerous Minds provides its readers with a take on an upcoming Tom of Finland biopic.
• The Dragon's Tales notes that Enceladus seems altogether too hot and notes that dwarf planet Makemake seems to have a surprisingly uniform surface.
• Far Outliers looks at Afghanistan and Poland at ( Read more... )

• blogTO notes that Toronto's housing market is now hotter than Vancouver's.
• The Crux looks at progress in human reproductive technology, including in ectogenesis.
• D-Brief looks at a new simulation of an asteroid impacting the ocean.
• Dangerous Minds reports on a French cement truck made into a giant mirrored disco ball.
• In Media Res' Russell Arben Fox ( Read more... )

• The Big Picture shares photos from ruined Aleppo.
• Centauri Dreams looks at the new explanation for the ASASSN-15h, of a Sun-mass star torn apart by a fast-rotating black hole.
• The Crux looks at the condition of hyperemesis gravidarum.
• Dangerous Minds shares the dark and Satanic art of an Argentine artist.
• Joe. My. God. reports on one man's displeasure ( Read more... )

Spacing's Marsha McLeod and Jen Roberton take a look at the campaign against public sex in Marie Curtis Park, placing it in a broader context of queer repression.

The presence of public sex in parks is a long standing tradition in urban centres. For some, having public sex is a fetish. For others, they may frequent parks for sex because they do ( Read more... )