[PHOTO] Potato fields stretching from Point Prim Road down to Long Creek, PEI

This vista, of fields dense with white potato blossoms flowing south to the blue Long Creek and the Northumberland Strait beyond, past farms and isolated houses and Camp Buchan, struck me when I saw it from the car. Happily, my parents were more than willing to stop to let me photograph this.

[PHOTO] Twenty-two photos of Prospect Cemetery in fall, Toronto

On this chilly late fall day, I decided to revisit a series of photographs I had taken in Prospect Cemetery back in September, when all was warm and green and full of light. These spaces can be wonderful places to explore, full of life and the commemoration of those who we still hold dear.

[META] What blogs do you read?

Yes, I know that traditional blogging is dying. It may be more appropriate to say that it is irreversibly fragmented. Some blogged have headed towards the short snappy sharing of links on photos enabled by (among other platforms) Twitter and Instagram, some migrating to places like Medium where long-form content has a home, and still others have simply dropped out in favour of fora in gates ecosystems like Facebook. Things happen.

All that said, what blogs--or other accounts--do you still read? Are there writers on Medium, or elsewhere, that you like? What about Twitter or Instagram accounts of note?

Please, discuss. Share your perspectives in the comments.

[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

• Dangerous Minds shares some of the exotic space music of composer Pauline Anna Strom.


• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper examining the effect of in-system super-Earth on asteroid impacts upon terrestrial planets.


• Hornet Stories, for ones, notes that Cards Against Humanity has bought up a stretch along the US-Mexican border to prevent the construction of a border wall.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money reminds people--sad that it has to be done--that, even in Trump outposts like Johnstown in Pennsylvania where racism has replaced reason among too many, there still are good things in this and other like communities.


• The LRB Blog considers the plight of British-Iranian Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, whose plight in Iranian custody has been worsened by her government. What can be done for her?


• Marginal Revolution notes how, in the early 20th century as in the early 21st century, substantial immigration to the US became politically controversial despite its benefits.


• The NYR Daily takes a look at the art of Tove Jansson, beyond the Moomins.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer takes a look at the slow emergence of Canadian citizenship distinct from the British over the 20th century.


• Roads and Kingdoms takes a look at the grape-crashing of the vineyards of Oliver, British Columbia.


• Peter Rukavina describes the origin of the theme music of CBC classic show The Friendly Giant in the 18th century English folk tune "Early One Morning."


• Seriously Science notes that oysters can apparently hear sound.


• Window on Eurasia notes that the autonomy enjoyed by Puerto Rico was one source of inspiration for the nationalists of Tatarstan in the early 1990s.

[NEWS] Five notes on cultural change: Jordan Peterson, blogging under ISIS, India, Canadian drama

• NOW Toronto observes that U of T professor Jordan Peterson is directly threatening other members of the academic community to which he belongs.


• VICE reports on how an Iraqi in Mosul managed to maintain an ISIS-critical blog while under ISIS rule.


• Mihir Sharma notes, for Bloomberg View, that Indian education needs to be vastly improved if India is to take off.


• This exploration of the reasons why Canadian playwrights are big in Japan is fascinating. (Translator Tohoshi Yoshihara is a huge fan.) NOW Toronto explores.

[NEWS] Four science links: Florida Keys, life on Mars, Triton vs Neptune, Ross 128 b

• Vulnerable ecologies and organisms in the Florida Keys are still recovering from Hurricane Irma (among other disasters). National Geographic reports.


• Simulations suggest life could exist in the Martian soil not too far removed from the surface. Universe Today reports.


• New simulations suggest that the Neptunian satellite system disrupted by the arrival of Triton was most like Uranus'. Universe Today reports.


• News of the existence of Ross 128 b, a potentially Earth-like world orbiting a stable red dwarf star a mere 11 light years away, is exciting. The Guardian reports.

[NEWS] Three link about transnational economic integration: Eurozone, TPP, NAFTA

• Paul Taylor at politico.eu describes the sort of integration that the Eurozone needs to function better, integration that may actually now come about after the French election.


• Bloomberg View's editors wish the Trans-Pacific Partnership continued success, even after Trump's United States withdrew.


• Aaron Hutchins at MacLean's explores the huge, and largely negative, consequences for Canada if Trump ends NAFTA (and US-Canada free trade, too).