[CAT] Shakespeare, against blue and red

[PHOTO] Some lobster-related merchandise at the Cavendish Boardwalk, PEI

[PHOTO] Nine photos of Lake Ontario from Ontario Place as the late summer sun sets (#ontarioplace)

The western edge of Ontario Place, facing Humber Bay with its rising skyline and Lake Ontario encompassing everything, is a fine place to go on a warm late summer evening. The waves break quietly against the stone beaches as the sun sets.

[BLOG] Some Saturday links

• Bad Astronomer Phil Plait notes the import of comet A/2017U1, a potential visitor from another planetary system, while Centauri Dreams also takes a look.
  
• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly celebrates Montréal's Atwater Market, with photos.


• Bruce Dorminey notes one report that Ceres' primordial ocean may have mixed with its surface, to make a world covered in salty mud.


• The Map Room Blog links to an interactive French-language map looking at census data on different neighbourhoods in different cities.


• The New APPS Blog looks at the changing role of the judiciary as enforcing of order in a privatized world.


• The NYR Daily wonders if North Korea's government has firm control over its nuclear weapons, given American issues.


• The Planetary Society Blog notes the expansion of Google Maps to other worlds in our solar system.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer examines the situation facing Catalonia, and Spain, after the UDI.


• Roads and Kingdoms takes a photographic look at Little Mogadishu, a Somali neighbourhood in Kampala, Uganda.


• Rocky Planet notes the ongoing risk of a major volcanic eruption at Tinakula, in the Solomon Islands.


• Understanding Society takes a look at the role and functioning of overlapping social identities.

[URBAN NOTE] Three Toronto links: 698 Spadina, free museums, cleaner transport

• Will 698 Spadina Avenue be torn down for new U of T student housing? blogTO reports.


• A variety of Toronto museums are going to be offering free admission until November 30th. Inside Toronto reports.


• There are good public health initiatives for Toronto to move to cleaner transportation technologies. The Toronto Star reports.

[NEWS] Three science links: ancient client change, fusion energy, mapping the Milky Way

• Climate change, it is newly realized, contributed to the fall of Ptolemaic Egypt. VICE reports.


• I liked this long-form article looking at the efforts of two North American groups to make fusion energy viable, courtesy of Vice.


• The progress we are making in mapping the entire Milky Way, even areas apparently hidden, is amazing. Universe Today tells the story.

[NEWS] Five notes about changing cities and economies: Toronto, Richard Florida, Amazon, freelancing

• A Toronto that does not invest in its future, as it is arguably inclined to do, is not a city that will fare well. Torontoist reports.


• Richard Florida confesses his doctrine of the creative city might not have covered everything. (Underinvestment.) Bloomberg reports.


• Looking at Seattle, Paul Roberts warns that Amazon fit into a preexisting tech-heavy entrepreneurial city. Politico.com has the story.


• Freelancing, this Bloomberg article notes, is becoming mainstream, a popular and profitable side venture. Bloomberg reports.


• If Americans are working longer and dying earlier, this says little good about demographics or economics there. Bloomberg shares the news

[NEWS] Three Canada links: niqab bans, free trade with China, 300k immigrants a year

• Global News notes that a niqab ban would meet broad popular support across Canada.


• Keeping free trade negotiations with China going while NAFTA is under pressure is wise to me, frankly. CBC reports.


• CBC quotes Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen saying 300 thousand immigrants a year is the new normal for Canada.