Link round up

• Is PowerPoint a Turing machine? https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=329&v=uNjxe8ShM-8
• More on book covers, this time academic book covers and why they should be attractive http://dimitrafimi.com/first-impressions-count-on-academic-book-covers/
• An interracial marriage in Georgian England http://www.riskyregencies.com/2017/05/19/a-documented-interracial-marraige-in-georgian-england/
• Cora on space opera http://corabuhlert.com/2017/05/20/what-is-it-that-makes-space-opera-so-good/
• And Liz Bourke on space opera http://www.tor.com/2017/05/18/space-opera-and-the-question-of-empire-from-david-weber-to-yoon-ha-lee/
• PZ Myers on Rafael Núñez and numbers and why they are like snowboarding http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2017/05/20/where-do-numbers-come-from/
• Jack Graham on Doctor Who’s Oxygen http://www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/last-gasp/
• OK and Cora again – redeeming Jupiter Ascending to the extent that I’ll have to rewatch it with less jaundiced eyes. http://corabuhlert.com/2015/03/07/the-disparate-reviews-of-jupiter-ascending/

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