[PHOTO] Six photos of Long Creek and the Camp Buchan Road, Belfast, PEI

The tidal outlet of Long Creek located east of Camp Buchan and the dirt road that connects the Scout camp are lovely to photograph.

[PHOTO] Bay-Adelaide Centre from the Cloud Gardens

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

• Bad Astronomer Phil Plait looks at the remarkably enduring supernova iPTF14hls, which seems to have attained its longevity through massive amounts of antimatter.


• blogTO notes plans for the construction of a new public square in Chinatown, on Huron Street.


• James Bow shares a short story of his, set in a future where everyone has a guaranteed minimum income but few have a job.


• A poster at Crasstalk shares a nostalgic story about long-lost summers as a child in Albuquerque in the 1960s.


• Bruce Dorminey reports on Universe, a beautiful book concerned with the history of astronomical imagery.


• The Everyday Sociology Blog explores the latent and manifest functions of education for job-seekers.


• Far Outliers' Joel talks about the Red Terror imposed by Lenin in 1918, and its foreshadowing of the future of the Soviet Union.


• Language Hat links to a lovely analysis of a Tang Chinese poem, "On the Frontier."


• Language Log notes how the name of Chinese food "congee" ultimately has origins in Dravidian languages.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money takes note of the suspicious timing of links between the Trump family and Wikileaks.


• Marginal Revolution's Tyler Cowen recounts his visit to an Amazon bookstore, and what he found lacking (or found good).


• The NYR Daily notes the continuing controversy over the bells of the church of Balangiga, in the Philippines, taken as booty in 1901 by American forces and not returned.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer wonders why Canadian incomes and productivity have historically been 20-30% lower than those of the United States, and why incomes have lately caught up.


• Roads and Kingdoms considers the simple pleasures of an egg and cracker snack in the Faroe Islands.


• Strange Company considers the bizarre 1910 murder of Massachusetts lawyer William Lowe Rice.


• The Volokh Conspiracy notes an Australian publisher that suspended publication of a book in Australia for fear of negative reaction from China.


• Arnold Zwicky shares some photos of his orchids, blooming early because of warm temperatures.

[URBAN NOTE] Four transit notes: King Street, bike lanes, Toronto Islands ferries, Coach Terminal

• Transit Toronto reports on how King, from Bathurst through to Jarvis, has been made a street where transit--streetcars, particularly--has priority.


• CBC notes that, by the standards of other peers, Toronto lags behind in the implementation of bike lanes.


• The venerable old ferries which link Toronto to the Toronto Islands are set to be retired. Farewell, noble boats. CBC reports.


• I quite like the idea of seeking out plans to make the Toronto Coach Terminal new again. It might be overlooked these days, but it does have lovely bones. The Toronto Star reports.

[NEWS] Three science and technology links: climate change and the US, payphones, Bombardier

• The Inter Press Service examines how, at the subnational level, American states and cities and other entities are trying to fight against climate change.


• Payphones, it turns out, actually still turn profits. There is some future to this technology yet in our cell phone era. VICE reports.


• The Bombardier vision of its Northern Ireland plant at one supporting Airbus' enterprises is lovely, but only if hard Brexit is somehow averted. Bloomberg reports.

[URBAN NOTE] Five notes on change: Richard Florida, Sidewalk & Quayside, Hong Kong, Seattle, Iceland

• Noah Smith of Bloomberg interviews RIchard Florida on the downsides of the urban renaissance, considering the possibility of countries fragmenting into booming city-states and declining hinterlands, over at Bloomberg.


• Christopher Hume considers how the Google Sidewalk dream for Toronto's Quayside could fall apart, over at the Toronto Star.


• VICE reports on how Hong Kong is making massive investments in land reclamation, in response to shortages of territory.


• Global News reports that Chinese homebuying investors have turned from Vancouver towards Seattle, in search of lower prices.


• Iceland is in the middle of massive housing price increases, though this is apparently growth driven by demand not by a bubble. Bloomberg reports.