[PHOTO] Twenty photos of my uncle's garden, Rollo Bay, PEI (#pei)

[PHOTO] Five photos of Honest Ed's at a time of demolition

[BLOG] Some Thursday links

• Centauri Dreams takes a look at the exciting early news on potentially habitable nearby exoplanet Ross 128 b.


• The Crux notes that evidence has been found of Alzheimer-like illness in dolphins. Is this, as the scientists argue, a symptom of a syndrome shared between us, big-brained social species with long post-fertility lifespans?


• D-Brief takes a look at the idea of contemporary life on Mars hiding away in the icy regolith near the surface.


• Far Outliers notes one argument that Germany lost the Second World War because of the poor quality of its leaders.


• Gizmodo notes the incredibly bright event PS1-10adi, two and a half billion light-years away. What is it? No one knows ...


• Lawyers, Guns and Money celebrates the end of the Mugabe dictatorship in Zimbabwe.


• The Map Room Blog links to some fascinating detailed maps of the outcome of the Australian mail-in vote on marriage equality.


• Roads and Kingdoms visits rural Mexico after the recent quake.


• Cheri Lucas Rowlands shares some beautiful photos of fantastical Barcelona.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel notes the insights provided by Pluto's mysterious cool atmosphere, with its cooling haze, has implications for Earth at a time of global warming.


• Window on Eurasia notes that Russia is not going to allow even Tatarstan to include the Tatar language as a mandatory school subject.

[NEWS] Five links: American gun owners, Japanese inequality, Polish politics, Lexit, #elsagate

• The small minority of American gun owners who own huge numbers of guns, more than they could seemingly use, is the subject of this study at The Guardian.


• The Japanese economy may be growing, but so is inequality, Bloomberg reports.


• This Open Democracy examination of the sharpening political divides in Poland, particularly outside of Warsaw, is gripping. It starts with the self-immolation of Upper Silesian Piotr Szczęsny in his country's capital.


• Julian Savarer takes a look at the many problems with "Lexit", the idea of a left-wing argument for Brexit.


• James Bridle looks at the complex human and artificial mechanisms behind the production of so much wrong children's video content. #elsagate is only the tip of it all. Medium hosts the article.

[NEWS] Three links on Canada, Trump, trade, and politics

• Canada is redoubling its lobbying efforts in the United States, to try to gain some security versus Trump. Global News reports.


• Kevin Carmichael looks at how the Trump Administration is triggering Canada's own internal divisions, on things as various as milk and lumber and Bombardier, perhaps to the United States' own benefit. MacLean's has it.


• John Geddes looks at the subtle differences in the videos of Conservative Andrew Scheer and Liberal Justin Trudeau, Scheer's video being in the suburbs and Trudeau's being among the crowds. MacLean's carries the article.

[URBAN NOTE] Three Toronto links: housing prices, Relief Line, Burtynsky at the AGO

• blogTO reports the obvious, that housing prices in Toronto are expected to continue to boom over the next decade despite this brief lull.


• There has finally been an official Request for Proposal for a new TTC relief line arcing across the southeast of the downtown. blogTO has it.


• I am incredibly excited by news of an upcoming exhibition of Edward Burtynsky' work, Anthropocene, at the AGO in September 2018. NOW Toronto reports.