Dec. 17th, 2015

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Tree in December #toronto #trees #churchstreet #alexanderstreet #winter


Last Thursday, Toronto was spring-like and warm. This lone tree stood out, not so much because it was alone in still having its leaves but because it was alone in behaving in normal tree-like fashion in spring.

Something is broken.
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  • The Dragon's Tales reports on the Syrian war of Russia.

  • Geocurrents' Martin Lewis shares a video lecture of his noting misleading maps.

  • Language Hat notes the false Slavic etymologies of Leibniz.

  • Lawyers, Guns and Money reports on the human costs of living near a nuclear facility in India.

  • The Map Room's Jonathan Crowe reports that blog is returning.

  • The Planetary Society Blog reports about NASA's substantial new budget.

  • Window on Eurasia suggests Africa will become a major source of terrorists and notes that Russia is trying to ally with social conservatives in the Baltic States.

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As a Canadian who grew up in the 1980s listening to the music of that decade, naturally the first time I heard the song "Not in Love" was in its original form, as a 1983 single by Platinum Blonde. It was not a bad song and Platinum Blonde was not a bad group, but there was nothing outstanding to it. It was just another song about angst and failed love by a perhaps excessively Anglophile and angst-ridden New Wave pop group, an artifact of one of the first waves of CanCon pop music.

Then, in 2010, Toronto's Crystal Castles decided to cover the song, and released a version featuring the guest vocals of The Cure's Robert Smith.


Crystal Castles - Not In Love from Video Marsh on Vimeo.



Thus was exposed this song's good bones to the entire world.
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