[PHOTO] Looking north on Ossington at Dupont

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

• Bad Astronomer notes Apep, a brilliant trinary eight thousand light-years away with at least one Wolf-Rayet star that might explode in a gamma-ray burst.


• Centauri Dreams notes that AAVSO, the American Association of Variable Star Observers, has created a public exoplanet archive.


• The Crux considers/u> different strategies for intercepting asteroids bound to impact with Earth.


• D-Brief notes the discovery of a solar twin, a star that might have been born in the same nursery as our sun, HD 186302 184 light-years away.


• The Dragon's Tales notes that although NASA's Gateway station to support lunar traffic is facing criticism, Russia and China are planning to build similar outposts.


• JSTOR Daily notes the research of Katie Sutton into the pioneering gender-rights movement of Weimar Germany.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money celebrates the successful clean-up of the Cuyahoga River in Ohio, once famously depicted on fire.


• The Map Room Blog links to maps showing Apple Maps and Google Maps will be recording images next for their online databases.


• Jamieson Webster at the NYR Daily takes a critical, even defensible, look at the widespread use psychopharmacological drugs in contemporary society.


• Roads and Kingdoms carries a transcript of an interview with chefs in Ireland, considering the culinary possibilities overlooked and otherwise of the island's natural bounty.


• Rocky Planet considers the real, overlooked, possibility of earthquakes in the relatively geologically stable east of the United States.


• The Russian Demographics Blog notes how, in the transatlantic wine trade, American interest in European wines is surely not reciprocated.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel notes how Einsteinian relativity, specifically relating to gravitational lensing, was used to predict the reappearance of the distant Refsdal Supernova one year after its 2014 appearance.

[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: St. Michael's, 650 Parliament, TTC, Norm Kelly, Toronto 2033

• Robyn Urback writes at CBC Toronto about the, sadly, unsurprising scandal at St. Michael's College School regarding the abuse and sexual assault of students.


• Many of the tenants displaced by the 650 Parliament Street fire will find themselves homeless very soon, if they cannot find a way to pay for their unwanted hotel stays. CBC reports.


• The CodeRedTO report on the TTC makes the point that mass transit in Toronto is vulnerable, particularly needing secure funding and more effective governance. CBC reports.


• blogTO takes a look at what is next for politician and Twitter star Norm Kelly, after he lost his seat in the Toronto elections.


• Spacing announces its upcoming launch of its first fiction anthology, Toronto 2033, in an event next week in the Junction.

[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Hamilton, Québec City, Markham, Cleveland, Vancouver

• CBC Hamilton shares the arguments of local housing advocates that removing rent control will not encourage the construction of more affordable housing.


• La Presse notes that Québec City is moving towards construction of a tramway system.


• Christopher Hume writes in the Toronto Star about the new Aaniin Community Centre in Markham, here.


• CityLab looks at redlining in Cleveland, here.


• This pair of videos, taken 52 years apart, does a great job of showing the remarkable transformation of the skyline of Vancouver. Global News has it.