• Dangerous Minds looks at the oddly sexual imagery of zeppelins entering their births.
• The Dragon's Gaze notes a paper looking at ways to detect Earth-like exomoons.
• Imageo notes unusual melting of the Greenland icecap.
• Language Log shares an extended argument against Chinese characters.
• The Map Room Blog notes the hundredth anniversary of the Sykes- ( Read more... )

• blogTO shares the exciting news that the new Star Trek series will be filmed in Toronto.
• James Bow reacts to Bombardier's newest delay in the delivery of streetcars.
• Centauri Dreams considers gravitational lensing.
• D-Brief notes the discovery of a moon for dwarf planet Makemake.
• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper claiming the Titius-Bode law applies to ( Read more... )

• Bloomberg notes continuing anger in Egypt at the cession of two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia, and looks at the travails of Sweden's Greens.
• The Guardian reflects on the devastation of a generation of artists by HIV/AIDS.
• Newsweek looks at the gentrification of San Francisco.
• The Washington Post looks at the American living in Tokyo who is a leading ( Read more... )

• Centauri Dreams considers, among other things, studies of Alpha Centauri.
• D-Brief talks about the unexpected chill of Venus' poles.
• The Dragon's Tales shares a photo of the San Francisco shoreline.
• Far Outliers notes the rare achievements of Michael the Brave.
• Joe. My. God. notes the recent finding by an American court that transgendered students are ( Read more... )

• Bloomberg notes controversy over Sanders' attendance at a Vatican conference and reports on the proposal for a bridge linking Saudi Arabia and Egypt across the Gulf of Aqaba.
• Bloomberg View notes mixed evidence behind the idea that separatism can work economically, and criticizes San Francisco's family leave policy as having too much impact on ( Read more... )

Towleroad shared the trailer for Last Man Standing, an hour-long documentary looking at the lives of eight long-term survivors of HIV/AIDS in San Francisco.

You can watch this video on www.livejournal.com

Last Men Standing Trailer from San Francisco Chronicle on Vimeo.

Erin Allday's San Francisco Chronicle feature goes into written detail, with photos, about these men.

Since 1981, when the ( Read more... )

Bloomberg's Kyungji Cho examines how South Korea has become one of the major investors in American office towers, concentrating particularly in New York City and San Francisco. For all of South Korea's recent growth, the United States is still a preferred destination for investors.

South Korea’s institutional investors are putting money in debt to ( Read more... )

Al Jazeera America notes that rising rents are driving a Catholic sisterhood out of San Francisco.

Sister Mary Benedicte wants to focus on feeding the hungry lined up outside a soup kitchen in a gritty part of San Francisco ( Read more... )

• Discover's Body Horrors notes éléphants can transmit tuberculosis to humans.
• Crooked Timber shares a photo of a street of San Francisco.
• The Dragon's Tales links to a study suggesting impacts by comets and asteroids could not have eroded Mars' atmosphere.
• Marginal Revolution notes a study suggesting ethnic groups with a long history of agriculture ( Read more... )

Ariana Eunjung Cha's Washington Post article suggests--plausibly--that the mass uptake of PrEP in San Francisco may mean that future HIV transmissions will stop in that city. There's something fitting to this, inasmuch as AIDS was first identified in this centre.

On online dating sites, Matthew Sachs identifies himself as a 5-foot-8, 130-pound ( Read more... )