[PHOTO] Three photos of Charlottetown at twilight, under blue skies

[PHOTO] Twenty-nine photos taken around the Toronto Necropolis (#torontonecropolis)

On this chill afternoon one day after Hallowe'en night, it struck me as entirely appropriate to go through photos I had taken of the Toronto Necropolis one fine warm fall afternoon, bright with sunshine and green with life. The Necropolis is a solemn memorial, but it is also an enjoyable park. More people should visit, I think, to enjoy this space, with remarkable individual graves embedded in the great sweep of life that has sprung up above this commemorated death on Cabbagetown's slopes above the Don Valley.

[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

• Centauri Dreams notes that the search for exoplanets with life may turn up not clear, but ambiguous, evidence.


• D-Brief notes the invention of a new, reversible invisible ink.
  
• Bruce Dorminey reports on how metal-rich Sun-like star HD 173701 gives us insight into the cycles of the Sun.


• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper examining how stellar activity can erode closely-orbiting rocky exoplanets.


• Hornet Stories reports on some problematic LGBTQ characters of colour in horror films.


• Language Log notes how the Chinese phrase "dǎ call 打call", used in propaganda, has gone viral.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the astonishing sympathy of John Kelly for the Confederacy.


• The LRB Blog notes how technology and bureaucracy make borders ever more permeable.


• Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution reflects on the wonderful Persian Letters of Montesquieu.


• The NYR Daily notes that, whatever the Manafort-Gates scandal is, it is not Trump's easy equivalent of Watergate.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel notes how astronomers were able to determine A/2017 U1 did not come from this solar system.