[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

• Anthro{dendum}'s Adam Fish looks at the phenomenon of permissionless innovation as part of a call for better regulation.


• James Bow shares excerpts from his latest book, The Cloud Riders.


• Bruce Dorminey notes how data from Voyager 1's cosmic ray detectors has been used to study dark matter.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money begins a dissection of what Roe vs Wade meant, and means, for abortion in the United States, and what its overturn might do.


• Ilan Stavans, writing for Lingua Franca at the Chronicle, considers the languages of the World Cup. The prominence of Spanish in the United States is particularly notable.


• The LRB Blog gathers together articles referencing the now-departed Boris Johnson. What a man.


• The Map Room Blog reports/u> on Matthew Blackett's remarkably intricate transit map of Canada.


• Alex Tabarrok at Marginal Revolution links to a study from Nature exploring how shifts in the definition of concepts like racism and sexism means that, even as many of the grossest forms disappear, racism and sexism continue to be recognized if in more minute form.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel looks at how a Japanese experiment aimed at measuring proton decay ended up inaugurating the era of neutrino astronomy, thanks to SN1987A.


• Window on Eurasia reports on how a Russian proposal to resettle Afrikaner farmers from South Africa to the North Caucasus (!) is, unsurprisingly, meeting with resistance from local populations, including non-Russian ones.


• Linguist Arnold Zwicky takes a look at how, exactly, one learns to use the F word.

[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: TTC, Bombardier, Lightspell, Harbord war memorials, Water Nymphs

• blogTO reports on the desire of the TTC to take over transit issues generally in the City of Toronto, down to the level of Toronto Islands ferries.


• The apology from Bombardier's president for the streetcar faults is, to my mind, not nearly enough. What will come of the TTC? What will come of Bombardier, too? The Toronto Star reports.


• If the TTC finally gets the Lightspell public art installation going at the Pioneer Village station, I will be pleased. blogTO reports.


• Richard Longley at NOW Toronto reports on the world war memorials at Harbord Collegiate Institute, speaking of alumni lost in these two conflicts.


• Jamie Bradburn wrote about the Water Nymphs Club, a swim team sponsored by the Toronto Evening Telegram back in the 1920s.

[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Pickering, Durham, Delta, Cairo, Yarmouk

• Angela Bischoff at NOW Toronto is right to make the point/u> that the disposal of the nuclear waste from the Pickering plant is a major issue, though I do not think this waste disproves the case for the plant.


• Durham Region is set to experience something of a marijuana boom when cannabis production becomes legalized. The Toronto Star reports.


• The mayor of the British Columbian community of Delta is concerned marijuana might displace food production on scarce, and wants regulation to prevent this. Global News reports.


• Mother Jones notes the terrible damage that Ben Carson has inflicted, as housing secretary, on low-income residents of a development in embattled Cairo, Illinois.


• Open Democracy's Budour Hassan pays tribute to Yarmouk, a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria recently destroyed by the civil war that once was a capital of the diaspora.

[NEWS] Five indigenous peoples links: Tunirrusiangit, Florida, history, knowledge, Uruguay Charrua

• Samantha Edwards at NOW Toronto writes about Tunirrusiangit, the new Inuit art exhibit playing at the AGO, here.


• National Geographic reports on the discovery of the royal home of a Floridian king known for opposing Spain.


• An app that tells one about the indigenous history of the place where one lives is really quite useful. Yes Magazine has it.


• Smithsonian Magazine examines the question why it takes so long for scientists to verify indigenous knowledge, here.


• This Stephanie Nolen report from The Globe and Mail takes a look at the struggle of descendants of the Charrua, the indigenous people of Uruguay, to gain official recognition.

[NEWS] Five US-Canada trade war links: Paikin, Heinz vs French's, maps, blame

• Steve Paikin explains why, in an era of Trump and trade wars, he is not taking his family to visit the United States this year, over at his blog.


• Heinz's ketchup, imported from American manufacturing plants, is at risk of losing serious ground to Ontario-manufactured French's. CBC reports.


• Brian Crowley and Sean Speer at MacLean's suggest that Canada is not blameless in the trade war, though I disagree strongly with their lumping in of efforts to build strong ties with China into this.


• Global News provides animated maps showing how vulnerable Canada is to trade wars with the United States, more so than the US, here.


• John Lorinc at The Walrus makes the defensible argument that Canada's vulnerability to the United States' is product of an overconcentration on the American market.