[MUSIC] Dua Lipa, "New Rules" (Initial Talk 80s Rules Remix)

I have just come across a fantastic remix of Dua Lipa's 2017 song "New Rules", an 80s-style Hi-NRG remix. The video, too, a deft reuse of footage from the Miss Teen Canada 1988 competition that, in the contestants' synchronized motions, keeps the theme of the coordinated female action of the original song's video intact is a delight.

"Dua Lipa - New Rules [Initial Talk 80s Rules Remix] @initialtalk" (Watch on YouTube)

[PHOTO] Biking to the west, Galleria parking lot

[BLOG] Some Friday links

• Zoe Todd at {anthro}dendum writes about white hostility in academia, specifically directed towards her Indigenous background.


• Architectuul writes about 3650 Days, a book celebrating a architectural festival in Sarajevo.


• Bruce Dorminey notes a proposal to look for Planet Nine by examining its impact on the local microwave background, legacy of the Big Bang.


• L.M. Sacasas at The Frailest Thing considers the relationship between the natural and the artificial.


• This remarkable essay at Gizmodo explains how the random selection of locations on maps by cartographers can create real-world problems for people who live near these arbitrary points.


• Language Log looks at a visual pun in a recent K-Pop song.


• Conrad Landin at the LRB Blog bids farewell to HMV, a store done in perhaps as much by predatory capitalism as by the changing music business.


• Marginal Revolution notes the impact of the federal government shutdown on Washington D.C.


• James Kirchick writes at the NYR Blog about pioneering activist Frank Kameny and his fight against the idea of a cure for gayness.


• Speed River Journal's Van Waffle shares a recipe for a quick Asian peanut soup, with photo.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains why a particular lava flow has blue lava.


• Window on Eurasia notes that the new Ukrainian Orthodox Church, by virtue of its independence and sheer size, will be a major player in the Orthodox world.


• Arnold Zwicky starts one post by noting how certain long-necked kitchenware bears a striking resemblance to extinct dinosaurs.

[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: Crystal Papineau, office space, TTC upload, cemetaries, 1999 snow

• Laurie Monsebraaten at the Toronto Star looks at the life of Crystal Papineau, the homeless woman who died in a tragic accident in a Bloorcourt clothing donation box.


• A construction boom is ongoing in Toronto to meet the growing demand for office space. The Globe and Mail reports.


• The Ontario government is preparing to upload the subway from the City of Toronto by fall. Global News reports.


• A recent lawsuit by citizen groups has seen a dozen cemeteries in Toronto, including Mount Pleasant, formally defined as public land. CBC Toronto reports.


• The National Post shares an oral history of the great snowstorm of 1999, which saw an overwhelmed Toronto call in for help removing snow from across the country.

[NEWS] Five D-Brief links: white dwarfs, FRBs, Barnard's Star b, AT2018cow, termites

• A new study by astronomers suggests that white dwarfs evolve over eons as they cool into immense crystals. D-Brief reports.


• Canadian astronomers have found a second mysterious repeating fast radio burst. D-Brief reports.


• Subsurface environments suitable for life could conceivably exist at Barnard's Star b. D-Brief reports.


• Astronomers observing the mysterious AT2018cow event in nearby dwarf galaxy CGCG 137-068t may have witnessed the formation of a compact object, a black hole or a neutron star. D-Brief reports.


• The turning of the earth wrought by termite hives in tropical rainforests may help protect these environments from drought. D-Brief reports.

[NEWS] Five JSTOR Daily links: US Buddhism, Samuel Beckett, Brexit, seals, letters

• JSTOR Daily looks at how Buddhism came to the United States, first brought by immigrants and then embraced as an alternative by the avant-garde.


• JSTOR Daily looks at the influence of the French Resistance on the playwriting of Samuel Beckett, himself a member of the underground.


• JSTOR Daily looks at the many different metaphors used to try to illuminate Brexit.


• JSTOR Daily notes that seal-watching boat expeditions need to give the seals more privacy, to avoid overstressing them and exposing them to the risks of fatigue.


• JSTOR Daily looks at how letter-writing, as a literary form, has been so strongly associated with women and the feminine.

[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Queens, Fort McMurray, Casablanca, Aleppo, Baghdad

• Guardian Cities looks at prosperous Long Island City and hard-pressed Blissville, two neighbourhoods of Queens that will be transformed by Amazon moving in.


• CBC notes how, for Fort McMurray five years after the oil boom's end, the bust is the new normal.


• CityLab reports on how the Art Deco Les Abbattoirs complex in Casablanca, once an emerging artist hub, has been emptied by the city government.


• This Middle East Eye feature looks at the relief and loss felt by returning survivors in Aleppo.


• Guardian Cities looks at how Baghdad, fragmented and impoverished by war, is fumbling towards some sort of livability.

[NEWS] Five space science links: red dwarfs, zombie stars, LMC, M94, dark matter

• Evan Gough at Universe Today, looking at a study of nearby young red dwarf AU Microscopii, points to findings suggesting that red dwarfs quickly lose volatiles like water in their protoplanetary disks, leaving their worlds sterile.


• Paul Sutter at Universe Today looks at zombie stars, white dwarfs which underwent Type 1a supernovas which did not totally destroy them.


• The SCMP notes a new study suggesting that the Large Magellanic Cloud, the largest satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, will collide with our galaxy in a mere 2.5 billion years.


• IFLScience notes that nearby spiral galaxy M94 is unusually lacking in satellites, leaving interesting hints about the nature of dark matter and its distribution.


• New models of dwarf galaxy formation suggest dark matter can be heated, driven away from a galaxy's core by--for instance--active star formation. Scitech Daily reports.