[PHOTO] Bloor/Gladstone Library at night

[PHOTO] St. Peter's seen across Rochford Square, Charlottetown

The red brick St. Peter's Anglican Cathedral stands on the north side of Rochford Square, past the elaborate mound of flower beds.

[BLOG] Some Sunday links

• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly re-introduces herself to her readers.


• Bruce Dorminey shares one man's theory about how extraterrestrials could use exoplanet sightings to build up a galactic communications network.


• Far Outliers shares some unusual Japanese words, starting with "amepotu" for American potato.


• Language Hat takes
  
• Did the spokeswoman of the NRA threaten to "fisk" the New York Times or threaten something else? Language Log reports.


• Drew Rowsome notes that, compared to San Francisco, Toronto does not have much of a public kink scene.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel examines the quantum reasons behind the explosion produced by sodium metal and water.


• Understanding Society takes rightful issue with The Guardian's shoddy coverage of Dearborn, Michigan, and that city's Muslims and/or Arabs.


• Unicorn Booty notes that Canada is, at last, starting to take in queer refugees from Chechnya.


• Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell notes the embarrassing support for Jean-Luc Mélenchon for Venezuela. Was opposing the US all he wanted?

[NEWS] Five science links: Uganda coffee, the cetenophore, the Rapanui, Proxima b, Przybylski's star

• National Geographic reports on how, unchecked, global warming may wreck the coffee industry of Uganda.


• Aeon notes the nervous system of the ctenophore, product of a separate evolutionary process from our own.


• Phys.org describes a recent study suggesting Easter Island was not wrecked by ecocide. (The Rapanui were devastated by others, I would add.)


• Even with an active magnetic field, an Earth-like atmosphere of Proxima Centauri b might be eroded away by flares. Universe Today reports on the climate model making this prediction.


• Does bizarre Przybylski’s star, HD 101065, contain exotic superheavy elements in its atmosphere? New Scientist wonders.