[PHOTO] Three photos from Black Canary Espresso Bar, Yonge and Dundas

I am quite fond of the u>Black Canary Espresso Bar hidden away above street level on Yonge just north of Dundas, in the front of the Silver Snail's second-floor location. The coffee shop has a nice comics-flavoured decorating theme going, the views of the streets--especially of Edward Street extended to the west--are great, and the specialty coffees are superb. (On this occasion, I had a Black Widow, coffee with raspberry syrup.)

[PHOTO] Five photos taken while walking around the Metropolitan Museum of Art (@metmuseum)

[PHOTO] Five photos taken while walking around the Metropolitan Museum of Art (@metmuseum)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is fetchingly embedded in the east of Central Park. Wandering down along 85th Street to Fifth Avenue is an experience not to be missed.

[BLOG] Some Sunday links

• Centauri Dreams notes how the presence of methane in the subsurface oceans of Enceladus helps create a plausible dynamic for life there.


• Crooked Timber notes another risk facing the UK in the era of Brexit, that of the United Kingdom's already questionable data protection. How likely is it the EU will authorize data sharing with a business in an insecure third party?


• D-Brief notes the conundrum posed by the profoundly corrosive dust of the Moon. How will future probes, never mind outposts, deal with it?


• Cody Delistraty notes the profoundly problematic nature of the ethnographic museum in the post-imperial era. How can they adapt?


• The LRB Blog notes the power of Stravinsky's recently discovered Chant funebre.


• Marginal Revolution notes how much Trump's proposed steel tariffs now evoke Bush Jr's like tariffs proposed a decade and a half ago.


• Justin Petrone at north! writes about his visit to a strangely familiar southern Italy.


• The NYR Daily takes a look at international brands careful to cater to the nationalist sympathies of China, in their advertising and elsewhere.


• At the Planetary Society Blog, Jason Davis explains NASA's detailed plan for returning people to the Moon.


• Roads and Kingdoms tells the story of a burning-hot street hotpot in Chongqing.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel considers the idea of dark matter not being a particle.


• Daniel Little at Understanding Society takes a look at the factors complicating the idea of consensus in a group.


• John Scalzi celebrates the twentieth anniversary of his ownership of his scalzi com website.


• Window on Eurasia wonders if Putin, with his boasting of advanced nuclear weapons, might start a 1980s-style arms race with the United States.

[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: new rail stations, neighbourhood voergrown, Myseum, The Ward

• Steve Munro takes a look at designs for new Smarttrack and GO Transit stations.


• While it's good that the population of Toronto is growing so strongly, that so much of the growth is concentrated in underserviced neighbourhoods is a problem. The Toronto Star reports.


• In some neighbourhoods, new construction means some parents can't send their children to local schools. The Toronto Star reports.


• NOW Toronto profiles the Intersections program of pop-up museum Myseum, looking at gentrification and other change in neighbourhoods.


• In The Globe and Mail, Chris Bateman uses old census data to identify a young girl and her brother photographed in 1913 in the now-vanished Ward.