[CAT] Shakespeare, briefly at rest

[URBAN NOTE] Not a public laneway, east of Queen's Park

Signs notwithstanding, this laneway separating all these condo towers does at least look like a real street.

[BLOG] Some Saturday links

• Centauri Dreams celebrates the science behind Cassini.


• Crooked Timber's Henry Farrell is breaking from Harvard's Kennedy Centre over its revocation of an invitation to Chelsea Manning.


• The Crux points to the ways in which the legacy of Cassini will still be active.


• D-Brief notes that some tool-using macaques of Thailand are overfishing their environment.


• Hornet Stories notes the eulogy given by Hillary Clinton at the funeral of Edie Windsor.


• Inkfish notes one way to define separate bird species: ask the birds what they think. (Literally.)


• The LRB Blog notes the recent passing of Margot Hielscher, veteran German star and one-time crush of Goebbels.


• The NYR Daily notes the chilling effects on discourse in India of a string of murders of Indian journalists and writers.


• At the Planetary Science Blog, Emily Lakdawalla bids farewell to the noble Cassini probe.


• Roads and Kingdoms notes a breakfast in Bangladesh complicated by child marriage.


• Towleroad notes an Australian church cancelled an opposite-sex couple's wedding because the bride supports equality.


• Arnold Zwicky notes the marmots of, among other places, cosmopolitan and multilingual Swiss canton of Graubünden.

[NEWS] Three notes about the past and the future of Nunavut

• CBC notes how 17 Inuit have been hired by Parks Canada to guard the site of the wrecks of Franklin's ships.


• That the Inuit who pointed the world to Franklin's ships also knows of Franklin's burial cairn does not surprise me.


• Nunavut's communities are set to have much faster Internet through new satellite connections.

[URBAN NOTE] Three notes about the future of mass transit and infrastructure in Toronto

• blogTO notes an exciting open house on the 28th of October for three of the new University Line subway stations.


• Alex Bozikovic praises the architectural innovation behind the new stations on the Eglinton Crosstown line.


• Christopher Hume's argument (from August) that Toronto will, despite itself, have to invest in its future works.