[PHOTO] Fall foilage by St. Peter's Church, Bathurst Street

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

• David Price at {anthro}dendum considers, going through archival material from the 1950s, the number of radical anthropologists in the US as yet little known or unknown who were marginalized by the Red Scare.


• Centauri Dreams ruminates on a paper examining 'Oumuamua that considers radiation pressure as a factor in its speed. Might it work as--indeed, be?--a lightsail?


• D-Brief notes the various reasons why the Chinese proposal for an artificial moon of sorts, to illuminate cities at night, would not work very well at all.


• The Dragon's Tales touches on the perhaps hypocritical anger of Russia at the United States' departure from the INF treaty.


• Far Outliers notes the sharp divides among Nazi prisoners of war in a camp in Texas, notably between pro- and anti-Nazi prisoners.


• L.M. Sacasas at The Frailest Thing revisits the original sin of the Internet culture, its imagining of a split between an individual's virtual life and the remainder of their life.


• The Island Review welcomes, and interviews, its new editor C.C. O'Hanlon.


• JSTOR Daily explores the reasons for considering climate change to be a national security issue.
  
• Language Hat is enthused by the recent publication of a new dictionary of the extinct Anatolian languages of the Indo-European family.


• Language Log examines the existence of a distinctive, even mocked, southern French accent spoken in and around (among other cities) Toulouse.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the rise of fascism in Brazil with Bolsonaro.


• Roger Shuy at Lingua Franca writes about the power of correspondence, of written letters, to help language learners. (I concur.)


• At the LRB Blog, Jeremy Bernstein writes about anti-Semitism in the United States, in the 1930s and now.


• The NYR Daily examines the life of writer, and long-time exile from her native Portugal, Maria Gabriela Llansol.


• Haley Gray at Roads and Kingdoms reports on the life and work of Mark Maryboy, a Navajo land rights activist in Utah.


• Window on Eurasia looks at the Russian urban myth of blonde Baltic snipers from the Baltic States who had been enlisted into wars against Russia like that of Chechnya in the 1990s.


• Arnold Zwicky takes a look at the classic red phone booths of the United Kingdom, now almost all removed from the streets of the country and sent to a graveyard in a part of rural Yorkshire that has other claims to fame.

[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: John Tory, planetarium, condos, Liberty Village, Edward VIII

• Toronto has been unified around John Tory, May Warren argues at the Toronto Star, largely because of Doug Ford.


• Urban Toronto notes an exciting University of Toronto proposal for a new planetarium downtown. I would definitely go for that!


• Urban Toronto notes that excavation has begun for Panda Condominiums, at the former site of the World's Biggest Book Store.


• blgoTO notes a Liberty Village intersection with massive new projects on every corner.


• Jamie Bradburn looks at the scant traces of King Edward VIII in Toronto, at Yonge and Eglinton and at Exhibition Place.

[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Montréal, Atlanta, Greenville, Sutera, Hong Kong

• Québec premier François Legault might well be convinced to support the Pink Line subway route favoured by Montréal mayor Valérie Plante. Global News reports.


• Guardian Cities reports on the popularity of the new soccer team of Atlanta in this perhaps unlikely locale.


• The North Carolina city of Greenville is trying to work towards settling its racist past with a new park, CityLab reports.


• Lorenzo Tondo at The Guardian reports on how new immigrants might save his father's native village of Sutera in Sicily, but only if they are allowed to.


• Bloomberg View notes that a bridge alone will not be enough to bind Hong Kong to the emergent Pearl River megalopolis.

[NEWS] Five first nations links: tobacco, yaupon tea, Kahnawake cannabis, Cree fiddling, Indigenous

• D-Brief notes evidence that indigenous peoples in the Pacific Northwest smoked tobacco long before Europeans arrived.


• Atlas Obscura looks at "yaupon tea", a caffeinated beverage brewed from the leaves and stems of the cassina plant of the southeastern United States popular among indigeous peoples but mysteriously neglected in recent years.


• The Mohawk reserve of Kahnawake is facing a referendum over whether or not to legalize the sale of cannabis products. CTV reports.


• Cree fiddler Byron Jonah is the first person to win a new fiddling award of Eeyou Istchee, the Cree region in northern Québec. CBC reports.


• Mathieu Landriault at The Conversation looks at how, in the Justin Trudeau era, the term "Aboriginal" has been replaced by "Indigenous".