[PHOTO] Five photos of Galata Cafe, 5122 Dundas Street West

Galata Cafe, located at 5122 Dundas Street West, is a superb Turkish coffee restaurant. I may well head out to Etobicoke again, walking north from Kipling station, just to enjoy their strong coffee again. Certainly I'll be praising them on their Yelp page as soon as I have a moment.

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The top of Belvedere Castle offers superb views to the north.

[PHOTO] Three photos of Manhattan from Belvedere Castle

The top of Belvedere Castle offers superb views to the north.

[BLOG] Some Sunday links

• Centauri Dreams considers methods for detecting early life telescopically on exoplanets.


• Crooked Timber considers how legislators bear personal responsibility, morally at least, for consequences of the legislations that they pass.


• Bruce Dorminey reports that the new TESS telescope may well be capable of spotting dense clouds of satellites in geosynchronous orbit of exoplanets as distant as 100 light years.


• Far Outliers considers how in Iran, the veil worn by a woman was a status symbol, for her husband and family as much as for the woman.


• Language Hat reports on the strange survival of the classical manuscript Alexandra.


• Language Log suggests that the Confucius Institute network set up by China does not seem to spread Chinese language so much as Chinese culture.


• As the Mueller investigation continues, Lawyers, Guns and Money suggests many of the players in the Trump Administration are facing a real-life version of the prisoner's dilemma.


• The Map Room Blog notes how maps of London's Chiswick have been compiled into a public mural.


• The NYR Daily has an amusing sketched review of the Michaelangelo exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum. (My pictures will be coming!)


• Drew Rowsome takes a look at some of the fashion unveiled by Gucci in their recent Milan show.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains how cosmic inflation means that, despite the speed of light and the universe's age of 13.8 billion years, we can see things now 46 billion light years away.


• Understanding Society's Daniel Little looks at some of the social factors going into nuclear accidents.


• Window on Eurasia reports a familiar sort of pattern, of Central Asian migrants held in Russian prisons spreading Islam among their fellow detainees.

[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: incubators, Bloordale, real estate, migration, Rosedale

• The universities of Toronto--U of T, Ryerson, York--turn out to provide some of the best university-based incubators of high-tech business in the world. CBC reports.


• blogTO notes that a new condo development at Bloor and Dufferin, in Bloordale just where it meets Bloorcourt, is being criticized for excessive density and a lack of community facilities.


• Edward Keenan notes that Patrick Brown was right in talking about real estate affordability in Toronto as a problem. Why aren't other people following him (in this, at least)? The Toronto Star has it.


• Royson James reports on how a Seventh-Day Adventist church in western Toronto not only helped integrate immigrants from the Caribbean, but set a model for others. The Toronto Star has it.


• Dave Leblanc writes about how Rosedale was introduced to the International Style by the 1944 Hobbs Sun House, over at The Globe and Mail.

[NEWS] Some Ontario politics links: guaranteed minimum income, Trump, Liberals, NDP, PCs

• The Toronto Star A new Ontario experiment testing the idea of a guaranteed minimum income finds that recipients are thriving, the money going a long way to alleviating their needs. https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2018/02/24/from-barely-surviving-to-thriving-ontario-basic-income-recipients-report-less-stress-better-health.html
  
• Kathleen Wynne has expressed concern that Trump Administration tariffs could hurt Ontario exports of steel and aluminum to the United States, over at the Toronto Star.


• Ontario PC leadership candidate Tanya Granic Allen has distanced herself from the proclaimed support of white supremacist Paul Fromm. CBC reports.


• Jen Gerson shares with readers, at MacLean's, the conversation in which the Ontario PC caucus told Patrick Brown that he had to resign. Extraordinary reading.


• The contention of Andrea Horvath that, given the PCs' disarray, the NDP is actually the only viable challenger to the Liberals is actually pretty plausible. The Toronto Star covers this.