[PHOTO] University of Toronto Graduate Residence, Spadina and Harbord

The University of Toronto Graduate House is a striking location on the western edge of the University of Toronto campus.

[PHOTO] Lone rail caboose at Borden-Carleton, Prince Edward Island

This lone wooden railroad caboose with the insignia of the Canadian National Railway is the only sign that the community Borden-Carleton--or, as it was known before the Confederation Bridge, Borden--was the interface between the Prince Edward Island Railway and the rail networks of the mainland. As Pat and David Othen observe in their article, in the decades before Prince Edward Island's railroad network was abandoned, ferries shuttled cars and engines between the mainland at Cape Tormentine and Prince Edward Island.

[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

• blogTO shares vintage postcard images of Toronto in the 1970s.


• Centauri Dreams notes a proposed method for detecting exomoons, by detecting the disruptions that they cause in their parent worlds' magnetic fields on the pattern of Io's disruption of Jupiter's magnetic fields.


• The Dragon's Tales notes a new paper suggesting that Enceladus' geysers are caused by its tides with Saturn.


• The Everyday Sociology Blog looks at what sociology has to say about sibling relationships.


• Joe. My. God. notes that some American conservstives think gays should oppose immigration because immigrants bring tuberculosis which kills HIV-positive people.


• Languages of the World's Asya Perelstvaig demonstrates that there is no evidence at all that Yiddish descends from the Turkic Khazarian language, noting instead arguments for a Germanic origin.


• The Russian Demographics Blog maps population change in Estonia over 1989-2011, noting that there has been population growth only in the metropolitan areas of three Estonian cities with Russian-majority Narva not seeing growth.


• At Savage Minds, Uzma Z. Rizvi thinks about racism in the United States over time.


• The Search interviews online anthropologist Robert Kozinets.


• Spacing Toronto notes that Toronto saw the invention of the first arcade game.


• Strange Maps shares an interactive infographic tracing the cross-border electricity trade in the European Union.


• Towleroad notes a fatal gay-bashing in San Francisco and the near-murder of an Azerbaijani teen by parents who wanted to burn him alive.


• The Volokh Conspiracy notes an American court ruling refusing to enforce a Moroccan court judgement on the grounds of the Moroccan legal system's corruption.


• Window on Eurasia suggests that support for federalism is spreading in Russia, notes one analyst's argument that Russia can become a beacon of reactionary conservative ideology, and suggests that Russia is trying to nudge outside powers out of the Armenia-Azerbaijan dispute.