[BLOG] Some Thursday links

• Centauri Dreams considers the concept of the "Clarke exobelt", a hypothetical ring of space stations in synchronous orbit of a planet that might be detectable across interstellar distances.


• The Everyday Sociology Blog considers the new American phenomenon of millennials moving back home with their parents.


• Far Outliers shares the second part of an an article summary on African and Japanese interactions in early modern Asia.


• JSTOR Daily takes a look at "precisionism", an art movement in the early 20th century United States that looked to the machine for inspiration.


• Language Hat shares a poem by the late great Ursula K Le Guin, "Dead Languages."


• Lawyers, Guns and Money, looking at the anti-Uighur police state that China has established in Xinjiang, points out that there are many ways in which American hegemony can be followed by something worse.


• The LRB Blog looks at how many documents vital in understanding the history of Iraq have been removed from the country or destroyed altogether. How will Iraqis be able to understand their history without them?


• The New APPS Blog takes a look at a newly released Foucault lecture from 1978, "Analytic Philosophy of Politics".


• The Planetary Society Blog reports from Mars, enveloped by a planet-wide dust storm that might endanger the intrepid rovers.


• Drew Rowsome takes a look at an exciting new film biography of Vivienne Westwood.


• Strange Company tells a story of a 19th century insurance fraud rooted in murder.


• Frank Jacobs at Strange Maps shares an old tourist map of Maine noting how many placenames from around the world are in that state.


• Towleroad shares a lovely ad from Ireland's Dublin Bus company featuring fathers picking up their gay children to take them to Pride. Wow.

[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: Galleria Mall, PATH, streetcars, BMR, float homes

• Urban Toronto notes that Toronto city council has granted approval for rezoning the Galleria Mall, making plans for a massive high-density redevelopment possible.


• blogTO reports that, finally, a website has appeared that will let people navigate the underground PATH network downtown. (An app will come later.)


• Steve Munro notes how the Bombardier streetcar debacle not only undermines that company, but threatens the presence of the streetcar in Toronto.


• Spacing shares Gabriel Eidelman's explanation of the history of Toronto's Bureau of Municipal Research, and why he decided to bring it back.


• Toronto Life shares photos of the float homes moored off the docks in Scarborough's Bluffer's Park Marina, and the people who live there.

[ISL] Five PEI links: Heat wave, Mill River, theatre props, Black Islanders, Confederation Bridge

• CBC PEI reports on the intensity of the heat wave hitting PEI. Frankly, Ontario-like temperatures on the Island were always rare in the past.


• A bid by indigenous groups on PEI to lay claim to the Mill River golf course on treaty grounds has been dismissed in court. Global News has it.


• The sheer volume of props accumulated over time by the Confederation Centre of the Arts theatre is noteworthy, if perhaps unsurprising. CBC reports.


• A black character, Sebastian Lacroix, is being introduced to the new Anne of Green Gables TV show. This is good: Anyone who read Black Islanders by Hornby must know about the black community in Charlottetown's The Bog that, until now, was hidden. Global News reports.


• Julie Payette reports that the Confederation Bridge linking the Island to the mainland is, in fact, visible from the International Space Station. CBC has it.

[MUSIC] Five music links: Sylvester, Kim Petras, Morrissey and Robert Smith, Chvrches, Eurythmics

• Sylvester, as Noisey notes, has a huge legacy. What might have been if not for AIDS?


• Them recently profiled trans pop star Kim Petras, set on making a career for herself in California.


• Morrissey and the Cure's Robert Smith, Dangerous Minds reported, have been sustaining a decades-long feud. All I'll say is that I know who I support, and I'm sure you know who that person I support is, too.
  
• NOW Toronto interviews Chvrches, a group I really must pay more attention to.


• This extensive Variety interview with Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics still makes me so happy.