[PHOTO] Blue framed by Roehampton, Yonge and Eglinton

The afternoon sky looking up Yonge Street at Eglinton Saturday afternoon was a glorious clear blue, perfectly framed by the towers rising on either side.

[PHOTO] Thirteen photos from The Body: Physique and Fashion, at the Museum at FIT (@museumatfit)

The Megabus drop-off point in Manhattan happens to be just outside the Museum of the Fashion Institute of Technology at West 27th and 7th. I had actually visited the place in 2012, and thought this location a good omen, so I popped inside.

The Body: Fashion and Physique, running until May, examines the ways in which fashion designers have traditionally tried to make the human body malleable for their fashions. The displayed clothing has an emphasis on how more recent designers are trying to be more inclusive of body diversity, or at least on the appearance of this tendency of late. (Featuring the famous Christian Siriano dress worn by Leslie Jones was a great idea!)

[BLOG] Some Sunday links

• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly talks about a week of her life as a freelance writer, highlighting so much of her work relates to social connections as opposed to actual writing.


• The Frailest Thing's Michael Sacasas shares an astonishingly prescient take by E.B. White on the power of television from 1938.


• Hornet Stories notes the efforts of the Indonesian government to get the Google Play Store there to block 70 apps used by LGBT people.


• At In a State of Migration, Lyman Stone looks at demographic trends in Hawaii, the other major insular possession of the United States. Low fertility and a high cost of living may actually lead to population decline there, too, in the foreseeable future.


• Joe. My. God. notes the death, at 59, of trailblazing gay comedian Bob Smith.


• JSTOR Daily links/u> to a paper noting how Jewish resistance in the Warsaw Uprising played a critical role in shaping post-war Jewish identity.


• Towleroad notes the announcement of an astonishingly preserved 1945 film clip showing gay men, out, at a pool party in 1945 Missouri.


• Window on Eurasia notes one prominent Donbas separatists' push for an aggressive response to the Ukrainian government over the collapse of Minsk, including an attempt to reclaim the remainder of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts from Kyiv.

[NEWS] Five science links: cocoliztli in Mexico, English forest, geothermal and tidal, space science

• National Geographic notes a new study suggesting that a salmonella variant was substantially responsible for a mysterious plague, cocoliztli, that depopulated 16th century Mexico.


• Wired reports on a worthy attempt at environmental engineering in the United Kingdom, an attempt to build a coast-to-coast forest in northern England.


• National Observer notes that the government of Canada is preparing funding for higher-risk clean power technologies including geothermal and tidal energy.


• Universe Today's Matt Williams notes a new study, drawing from LIGO data, determining that at their most massive non-rotating neutron stars can only have 2.16 solar masses.


• Matt Williams at Universe Today observes the detection of a stellar-mass black hole candidate in the heart of globular cluster NGC 3201. It's not an intermediate-mass black hole, but it's something!

[NEWS] Five pop culture links: Pioneer Village, Japan, Chippewas of the Thames, I Tonya, porn

• blogTO notes the reluctance of the TTC to turn on the interactive LightSpell art at Pioneer Village station, even though it is now revealed to have cost $C 2 million (not $C 500 thousand).


• Connor Cislo notes at Bloomberg the growing importance of intellectual property as a source of income for the Japanese economy, especially in a time of an emergent trade deficit and an aging workforce.


• Liny Lamberink at Global News notes how the Chippewas of the Thames First Nation is using an innovative eco-home to attract tourists to their reserve.


• VICE interviews Craig Gillespie, director of the intriguing new film I, Tonya about 1900s figure skater Tonya Harding, talking about the film and the thought that went into it. I must see this one, I think.


• VICE reports PornHub data from Hawaii during last week's ballistic missile scare. It turns out porn watching collapsed by 77% during the crisis but then spiked by half after 9 o'clock.

[NEWS] Four migration links: American tourism, Canadian farm workers, Indian sculptors, deportees

• Justin Bachman at Bloomberg notes how a tourism industry group in the United States is urging policy changes that might reverse a recent fall in incoming tourist numbers to that country.


• Over at MacLean's, Donald MacLean Wells and Janet McLaughlin look at the exploitation of migrant farm labourers in Canada.


• CBC reports on allegations that skilled Tamil sculptors from India were exploited and cheated out of a wage by their Toronto employers, Sridurka Hindu Temple.


• Inter Press Service reports on the plight of some deportees from the United States to Cambodia, people who came over as children but never acquired American citizenship and so were eligible for deportation if convicted of crimes.