Weekly round-up and open thread, 23 August 2011

Public domain image - The Earth seen from Apollo 17 - via WikipediaBetter late than punctual, here’s this week’s open thread for discussion and our regular round-up of some of the articles and blogs we’ve noticed over the last week or so, but not had time to post about.

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This week’s closing music vid is Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton’s version of Hound Dog, written by Mike Stoller and Jerry Lieber, who died yesterday:

[Public domain image ‘The Earth seen from Apollo 17’ via Wikipedia]