[PHOTO] Five (or six) photos of the sun setting at Hanlan's Point, Toronto Islands

Yesterday, in a most unseasonably hot day that felt like summer, I decided to go to Hanlan's Point for the late afternoon. The beach has changed so much from last year as to be almost unrecognizable, so much of its sand washed into the water, but it works in its new incarnation. The line of poplar trees that is so much closer to the water feels like a privacy screen of sorts, intensifying the experience of distance. The water and the sand, happily, remain the same, if perhaps a bit more pebbly than before.











Google Photos, meanwhile, put together this panorama shot, combining photos 4 and 5 in this series.

[PHOTO] Looking west on Route 6 at 13, Cavendish, PEI

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Prince Edward Island's Route 6 is seen here in Cavendish, looking west just west of 6's intersection with Route 13 at Cavendish Cemetery. Green Gables House lies just a few minutes' walk in this direction, among the craggy pines.

[BLOG] Some Monday links

• Centauri Dreams links to archival video painstakingly collected from the Voyager missions.


• Citizen Science Salon notes ways ordinary people can use satellite imagery for archaeological purposes.


• Good news: Asian carp can't find a fin-hold in Lake Michigan. Bad news: The lake is so food-deprived nothing lives there. The Crux reports.


• D-Brief notes that, once every second, a fast radio burst occurs somewhere in the universe.


• Dangerous Minds looks at the psychedelic retro-futurism of Swedish artist Kilian Eng.


• Dead Things notes the recovery of ancient human DNA from some African sites, and what this could mean for study.


• Cody Delistraty reconsiders the idea of the "coming of age" narrative. Does this make sense now that we have abandoned the idea of a unitary self?


• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper examining the evolution of icy bodies around different post-main sequence stars.


• The Great Grey Bridge's Philip Turner notes anti-Putin dissident Alexei Navalny.


• Hornet Stories notes reports of anti-gay persecution in Azerbaijan.


• Language Log takes a look at the dialectal variations of southern Ohio.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money starts a discussion about what effective disaster relief for Puerto Rico would look like.


• The LRB Blog looks at the aftermath of the recent earthquake in Mexico, and the story of the buried girl who was not there.


• Marginal Revolution notes that Toronto real estate companies, in light of rent control, are switching rental units over to condos.


• Naked Anthropologist Laura Agustín takes a look at the origins and stories of migrant sex workers.


• The NYR Daily talks about the supposedly unthinkable idea of nuclear war in the age of Trump.


• Drew Rowsome gives a strongly positive--and deserved review to the Minmar Gaslight show The Seat Next to the King, a Fringe triumph now playing at the Theatre Centre.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains how so many outer-system icy worlds have liquid water.


• Towleroad features Jim Parsons' exploration of how important is for him, as a gay man, to be married.


• Window on Eurasia suggests Russian language policy limiting minority languages in education could backfire, and wonders if Islamization one way people in an urbanizing North Caucasus are trying to remain connected to community.

[URBAN NOTE] Four blogTO links: Niagara Falls, Kensington Market, 450 Pape, Toronto Book Garden

• Having visited Friday, I liked the blogTO report on the early days of Toronto's love affair with Niagara Falls.


• blogTO shares photos of Kensington Market in the raw 1970s.


• The exterior of 450 Pape Avenue was used for the movie It, and the place is seeing Stephen King pilgrims already.


• The Toronto Book Garden, a lovely mini-park at Harbourfront keyed to literary Toronto, opened yesterday.

[URBAN NOTE] Four Toronto notes: High Park Avenue, Union Station to Queens Quay, new condos

• The mixture of high- and low-end real estate on High Park Avenue might be a model for Toronto. Tess Kalinowski reports.


• There are quite a few different proposals for replacements of the streetcar linking Union Station to Queens Quay.


• Edward Keenan argues that, however Union Station or Queens Quay are linked, the link should be funded adequately.


• The Globe and Mail reports on how the arrival of rent control is leading to the early conversion of rental units to condos.

[NEWS] Four notes on the future: Toronto-Montréal hyperloop, brain hacking, Puerto Rico, Germany

• Universe Today reports on the potential game-changing nature of a hyperloop connecting Toronto and Montréal.


• Hacking of the brain is an obvious risk of two-way brain/Internet interfaces. From VICE.


• Puerto Rico's ongoing economic crisis has only been worsened by Hurricane Maria. Bloomberg reports.


• The problem with the German economy, strong as it may be now, is that not enough has been invested in the future. Bloomberg warns.

[DM] What demographic issues do you think deserve coverage?

At Demography Matters, I have a brief post asking readers what countries and regions, what themes, they would like to see explored.

(And you?)