[PHOTO] Fifteen photos of and around North Rustico Beach, PEI

North Rustico Beach, on the northern shore of the community of North Rustico facing the Gulf of St. Lawrence, is a beautiful beach.

[BLOG] Some Thursday links

• Bad Astronomer Phil Plait notes that the Earth can easily survive without us.


• blogTO notes that the Aga Khan Museum recently made an appearance in Star Trek: Discovery, as Vulcan.


• Centauri Dreams notes the way neutron star collisions and kilonovas can be used to examine physical laws in extreme circumstances.


• Hornet Stories notes that trans political candidate Danica Roem, in Virginia, is getting lots of positive attention.


• The LRB Blog visits Gdansk only to find popular anti-Muslim xenophobia thriving.


• The NYR Daily looks at photographic and other legacies of the Jamaica dancehall scene.


• The Planetary Society Blog looks at the evolution of SETI from the 1960s to the present.


• Roads and Kingdoms looks at the struggle of astronomers, in West Texas and elsewhere, to preserve dark skies.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel looks at the ways in which GW170817 has confirmed the Standard Model.


• Window on Eurasia argues that reactionary conservatism in Russia is making that country's HIV/AIDS epidemic worse.

[URBAN NOTE] Three Toronto notes: Neo-Nazis at Nathan Phillips, Toronto suburb photos, Yonge Street

• So, the other day neo-Nazis had a demonstration in Nathan Phillips Square. Torontoist reports.


• These photos from Toronto suburbs at their apogee, part of an exhibit at the Archives, are a must-see, here at Toronto Life.


• This older CBC article noting two women who hiked up Yonge Street makes me think of projects in the days to come.

[URBAN NOTE] Three links about cities and borders: Dover, Narva, Detroit

• Anything but the softest of Brexits is going to leave Dover, port of entry into the UK, with massive traffic jams. Bloomberg reports.


• The people of the largely Russian city of Narva, in Estonia, occupy an awkward but viable position. (For now.) Open Democracy reports.


• Detroit is making a come-back, but many of its long-time inhabitants are not enjoying the revival. VICE reports.

[NEWS] Three links about technology and environment: lithium in Chile, Norway oil, CO2 into stone

• The intricacies of law in Chile are complicating the exploitation of the country's vast lithium reserves. Bloomberg reports.


• Norway is faced with the question of how, or even if, it can ethically exploit its hydrocarbon fuel reserves. Bloomberg reports.


• Can the transformation of carbon dioxide from the air into carbon-neutral stone be an answer to climate change? Quartz reports.

[NEWS] Four space science links: water worlds, debris disks, Alpha Centauri, Kepler 1625 b-i

• Watery worlds orbiting red dwarf stars, in one scenario, tend to see their volatiles evaporate into space quickly.


• Gaps in debris disks orbiting young stars seem to point to the existence of planets in these gaps.


• The proposed Project Blue--a space-based telescope capable of imaging planets at Alpha Centauri--sounds good to me.


• Kepler-1625 b-i, a strong candidate to be the first exomoon found, seems to have a fascinating history.

[MUSIC] Alice Glass, "Without Love"

Alice Glass is a rising Canadian star, a singer-songwriter active in the electronic and electropunk scenes for more than a decade, famous for her frenetic stage shows as part of the duo Crystal Castles and since 2014 a solo artist.

Inspired by the #metoo movement, Glass announced that her split was triggered by her abuse from her partner in Crystal Castles, Ethan Kath. "Without Love" is a song addressing this, first track to drop off her new EP with a video full of gorgeous apocalyptic floral imagery courtesy of Floria Sigismondi

Watch on YouTube

I think I like this song better than anything she did in Crystal Castles.