[PHOTO] Rosedale in evening

[PHOTO] Charlottetown City Hall, 199 Queen Street

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

• The Citizen Science Blog notes an effort to undertake a census of the monarch butterfly this week.


• Crooked Timber's Eric Rauchway riffs on Nolan's Dunkirk as a meditation on the end of empire.


• The Dragon's Gaze notes that, though a good idea science-wise, interstellar probes are not coming anytime soon.


• Jonathan Wynn at the Everyday Sociology Blog shares 13 lessons to be taken from 13 Reasons Why.


• Language Hat investigates the deeper etymology of "Lozi", a people of Zambia.


• Victor Mair of Language Log takes a critical look at the difficulty of learning Chinese characters.


• Turning to the taxi industry, Lawyers, Guns and Money considers the extent to which the gig economy undermines immigrant and minority participation in established industries.


• The LRB Blog wonders what Brexiteers could possibly have, rightly, against the European Court of Justice. Law matters ...


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer is disconcerted by the extent to which some people believe falsehoods about crime and race in the US.
  
• Transit Toronto notes last night's Underground Freedom Train Ride. I'm sad I missed this.


• Window on Eurasia notes Belarus' concern over the import of upcoming joint military exercises with Russia, here and here.

[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links, from Bakhtinian Caribana to climate and environment to Leslie Spit

• Spacing hosts Cheryl Thompson's article examining Toronto's Caribbean festival as a Bakhtinian organized chaos.


• VICE examines how social housing in Canada will be hard-hit by climate change, including rising temperatures.


• Torontoist shares a sponsored guide to attractions in the Ontario Greenbelt.


• Laura Howells at the Toronto Star notes that if garlic mustard has to be an invasive plant in the forests of Ontario, at least it helps that it is a tasty invader.


• Julien Gignac reports on the mystery of who the artist building shrines at Leslie Spit actually is.

[NEWS] Three links on Venezuela as it descends

• Alejandro Puyana at NPR describes how the arepa of Venezuela thrives internationally but dies at home.


• Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns and Money makes the point that people on the left clinging to Venezuela as it descends into dictatorship are not helping anyone.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer notes that the 1999 constitution of Venezuela seems designed to have allowed for a shift towards dictatorship.