[PHOTO] Five photos of Dovercourt Village at twilight

Wednesday evening at twilight, I took a stroll with intent through Dovercourt Village, east on Dupont and then south on Dovercourt Road. The quality of the light was superb.

[BLOG] Some Friday links

• The Buzz celebrates Esi Edugyan's winning of the Giller Prize for the second time, for her amazing novel Washington Black.


• Centauri Dreams notes the unusual rings of outer-system body Chariklo.


• The Crux looks at the long history of unsuccessful planet-hunting at Barnard's Star, concentrating on the disproved mid-20th century work of Peter Van De Kamp.


• D-Brief notes evidence that Mars knew catastrophic floods that radically reshaped its surface.


• Bruce Dorminey visits and explores Korea's ancient Cheomseongdae Observatory.


• The Everyday Sociology Blog notes the death of long-time contributor Peter Kaufman.


• L.M. Sacasas at The Frailest Thing considers the things--quiet, even--that modernity can undermine before transforming into a commodity.


• Imageo notes that global warming has continued this American Thanksgiving.


• Joe. My. God. notes the sour grapes of the Family Research Council at the success of the moving film about "gay conversion therapy", Boy Erased.


• JSTOR Daily links to a paper considering if the zeitgeist of the world is into major monuments.


• Language Log considers a news report of "arsehole" geese in Australia. As a Canadian, all I can say is that geese are birds that know they are dinosaurs.


• The LRB Blog reports from the scene of the recent unrecognized elections in the city of Donetsk, run by a pro-Russian regime.


• The Map Room Blog reports on how Atlas Obscura is exhibiting some amazing maps produced in Dungeons and Dragons campaigns.


• Marginal Revolution links to a paper noting how black teachers can help boost achievements among black students.


• The New APPS Blog looks at how the political economy of our time combines with social media to atomize and fragment society.


• Nicholas Lezard at the NYR Daily talks about his experience of anti-Semitism, as a non-Jew, in the United Kingdom.


• Casey Dreier at the Planetary Society Blog suggests families would do better to talk about space at Thanksgiving than about politics, and shares a list of subjects.


• Drew Rowsome talks about the frustrations and the entertainment involved with Bohemian Rhapsody.


• Window on Eurasia notes that fifty thousand ethnic Kyrgyz are being held in the Xinjiang camps of China.


• Arnold Zwicky shares some Thanksgiving holiday cartoons by Roz Chast.

[URBAN NOTE] Five Toromto links: Y&E, Toronto Illustrated, Unzipped, Fashion Santa, MOCCA

• Urban Toronto shares a drone photo of Yonge and Eglinton, here.


• Jamie Bradburn takes a look at Toronto Illustrated, a 1957 b ook looking forward at the Toronto of tomorrow, here.


• The Unzipped Toronto pavilion on King Street West is set to host a Christmas market. blogTO reports.
  
• Fashion Santa, incidentally, has secured a trademark to his image and persona. blogTO reports.
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• The MOCCA will be getting a light therapy room to counter seasonal depression. blogTO reports.

[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Hamilton, Kitchener-Waterloo, London & Windsor, Montréal, Québec City

• The economy of Hamilton, Ontario, is apparently among the strongest of any Canadian city. Global News reports.
  
• Transit Toronto notes that the Ion, the Kitchener-Waterloo LRT, will be doing a test run tomorrow.


• Southwestern Ontario, from London to Windsor, faces a potential cancellation of the proposed high-speed rail link connecting this region to Toronto. Global News reports.


• This pair of residential towers proposed for the Quartier des spectacles in Montréal would certainly be eye-catching, if they were ever allowed to be built. CBC reports.


• CityLab notes the controversy, and the origins, of the proposed Québec City skyscraper Le Phare, here.

[NEWS] Five space links: Hawaii, BepiColombo, Mars, GW170817

• A habitat high in the mountains of Hawaii that once housed simulated Mars missions is now going to be home to a Moon base simulation, following a controversial recent run-through. The Atlantic reports.


• D-Brief examines the electric thrusters of the BepiColombo probe.


• Universe Today offers viewing tips for giant asteroid 3 Juno, here.


• The neutron star collision producing GW170817 seems to have produced not a black hole, but a single hyper-massive neutron star. Science Daily reports.


• Universe Today explores the prospects of the Mars InSight probe, set to land on the 26th, here.