[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

• Crux takes a look at some of the lost moons of the early solar system, including those of Jupiter, Saturn inward of Titan, and Neptune before its encounter with Triton.


• D-Brief notes that, in its relatively warm and watery youth, the Moon could conceivably have supported life.


• Dangerous Minds shares photos, and a precise, of the ball--the Diner de Têtes Surrealistes--thrown in 1972 by the Baroness Marie-Hélène de Rothschild and her husband Guy at the Château de Ferrières outside of Paris.


• Jonathan Wynn at the Everyday Sociology Blog takes a look at how students' race can complicate the act of studying abroad. http://www.everydaysociologyblog.com/2018/07/race-and-studying-abroad.html
  
• Imageo notes the heat wave aggravating forest fires in California and Oregon.


• JSTOR Daily considers if, perhaps, the Ford Pinto received an undeservedly negative reputation from its contemporaries.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money links to a Matthew Yglesias analysis about the usability of swing voters in the American context.


• At the LRB Blog, Anne Orford draws from the Trump-Putin summit in Helsinki the argument that international politics is much too important to be decided by two men alone and their translators.


• The Map Room Blog shares some remarkable infrared images of Titan, looking beneath that world's clouds.


• Marginal Revolution notes one report suggesting that oil revenues could lead to a tripling of the size of the GDP of Guyana in five years.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel illustrates the discovery of an ancient galaxy almost entirely absorbed into the Andromeda Galaxy, M32p.


• Towleroad reviews the new Broadway play Straight White Men, which has an interesting take on this hitherto-dominant portion of North American society.

[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: Reese Fallon, guns, Sugar Beach North, Little Ethiopia, Parkdale

• Reese Fallon, one of the two people killed in the Danforth shooting, was a student hoping to go to the fall to McMaster University to study for a career in nursing. The Toronto Star reports.


• People in some Toronto neighbourhoods with high levels of gun violence welcome an expanded police presence, despite other issues. CBC reports.


• Urban Toronto notes an exciting plan to, among other things, build a Sugar Beach North on the waterfront.


• blogTO talks about Little Ethiopia, on Danforth by Greenwood. Speaking as someone familiar with his Little Ethiopia near Ossington, this area sounds fascinating.


• The Pia Bouman School in Parkdale, a leading dance academy for four decades, is hoping to avoid displacement by new construction. CBC reports.

[NEWS] Five sci-fi links: nearer stars, Sailor Moons, role-playing, queer SF, #Earpers

• James Nicoll notes, writing at Tor, how modern science has made the nearby stars we know so much less plausible as hosts for Earth-like worlds in science fiction.


• This long-form Kotaku article by Cecilia D'Anastasio seeking to uncover the much-rumoured American pilot for a live-action version of Sailor Moon is amazing.


• While I admit to perhaps not being the best role-player, I agree entirely about the great creative potential of Dungeons & Dragons (and other role-playing games). NBC News made the case.


• NOW Toronto celebrates the queer representation, and commercial viability, of Wynonna Earp and Killjoys.


• This Vulture article examining how Wynonna Earp has developed such a helpful and nice fandom, substantially through intentional engineering by fans and showrunners alike, is fascinating. A model for the future?

[NEWS] Five LGBTQ links: Old West, William Shakespeare, The Emerald City, HIV in military, racism

• JSTOR Daily took a look at the gender non-conformists of the Old West of the United States.


• Last month, Sky Gilbert at The Conversation took a look at the many queer themes in the plays of William Shakespeare.


• Mike Miksche reports for NewNowNext on The Emerald City, a public access television show in the mid-1970s that was the first queer show on television.


• Queerty reports that the Trump Administration is now attempting to force HIV-positive soldiers out of the American military.


• At Them, Phillip Henry makes the point that racism is not a preference.

[NEWS] Five Prince Edward Island Pride links (#pei)

• The Guardian notes how Upstreet Brewery created a special beer for Pride, here.


• After two decades together, Bernadette Mulligan and Catherine Boyd came out to everyone when they got married just a few short weeks ago. CBC reports.


• The Guardian reports on how the Pride parade in the community of Victoria-by-the-Sea hosted 70 people, nearly the total of the village's population.


• The raising of the rainbow Pride flag is an important symbol for LGBTQ Islanders. CBC reports.


• Dave Stewart writes for CBC PEI about the importance of Pride, for the Island generally and for him specifically, here.

[PHOTO] Looking southwest across Riverdale Park East, Broadview and Montcrest

[PHOTO] Nineteen photos from the Danforth and Greektown on a warm summer night (#danforthstrong)

I took a walk east along the Danforth Avenue this evening, east into Greektown. The terrible mass shooting of the night of the 22nd of July, just two days ago, was on my mind. I may be a west end boy, but I know this stretch on the east side of the Don quite well. I've had coffee with friends here, done yoga here, gone to theatre here, done Jane's Walks and solo exploration here, done more here. I've eaten liver and onions at the New York Cafe while looking south down Broadview towards Riverdale Park and the downtown skyline ready to burst beyond just beyond the trees and the low-rises, and looked west at Broadview's intersection with the Danforth across at the beckoning Viaduct. The Danforth is as much a part of my beloved city as Dovercourt Village.

Cities and neighbourhoods are always machines for living. At their best, like in the case of the Danforth, they are glorious machines of living, places that set us free to live and love and enjoy as best we can. We have to always work hard to keep these machines working well, but we also must never err and take anomalies like Sunday's killings to be representative. As I was walking along the Danforth, I heard and saw people talk about Sunday--what they witnessed, what they heard--but I also people talk about what they were going to be doing. I saw the Danforth full of people, continuing to live in a neighbourhood that these people must care about. This particular machine still works, even now.