[PHOTO] Morning sky to the southeast, Dovercourt and Dupont

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

• Bad Astronomer Phil Plait writes about the ephemeral nature and historically recent formation of the rings of Saturn.


• Centauri Dreams hosts an essay looking at the controversies surrounding the arguments of Avi Loeb around SETI and 'Oumuamua.


• D-Brief links to a new analysis of hot Jupiters suggesting that they form close to their stars, suggesting further that they are a separate population from outer-system worlds like our Jupiter and Saturn.


• Colby King at the Everyday Sociology Blog takes a look at the sociology of the online world, using the critical work of Zeynep Tufekci as a lens.


• L.M. Sacasas at The Frailest Thing makes a great point about the seemingly transparent online world: We might, like a protagonist in a Hawthorne story, confine ourselves falsely that we know everything, so becoming jaded.


• JSTOR Daily notes how, in the early 20th century, US Park Rangers were actually quite rough and tumble, an irregular police force.


• Language Hat looks at the overlooked modernist fiction of Dorothy Richardson.


• Language Log examines the origins of the phrase "Listen up".


• The LRB Blog visits a Berlin cemetery to note the annual commemoration there of the lives of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg.


• Marginal Revolution considers the proportion of centenarians on Okinawa, and considers if a carbohydrate-heavy diet featuring sweet potatoes is key.Tim Parks at the NYR Daily engages with the idea of a translation being an accomplishment of its own.


• Roads and Kingdoms has a fascinating interview with Tanja Fox about the history and development of the Copenhagen enclave of Christiania.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel notes that early returns from New Horizons suggest Ultima Thule is a typical "future comet".


• Strange Company shares the story of the haunting of 18th century Gael Donald Bán.


• Towleroad shares the account by Nichelle Nichols of how her chance encounter with Martin Luther King helped save Star Trek.


• Window on Eurasia notes the different quasi-embassies of different Russian republics in Moscow, and their potential import.


• Arnold Zwicky, looking at penguins around the world, notices the CIBC mascot Percy the Penguin.

[URBAN NOTE] Seven Toronto links: 1 Yorkville, Davenport Village, Meridian, homelessness, Pride, art

• Urban Toronto notes that 1 Yorkville is nearing completion.


• Urban Toronto notes the plans for the massive redevelopment of Davenport Village, north and west of Dupont and Lansdowne.


• The Sony Centre is now going to be called Meridian Hall, thanks to the Ontario credit union of the same name buying the name rights. blogTO reports.


• This story of a tenant who was deprived heating by her landlords' neglect is appalling. I hope things get fixed quickly for her. Global News reports.


• Declan Keogh reports in NOW Toronto that the funding problems of Pride Toronto are linked to the police ban enacted in 2016.


• This Nicholas Hune-Brown feature at Toronto Life about the crisis of homelessness in Toronto is terribly compelling in sharing these stories.


• This Toronto Life feature on the installations on the seventh floor of the Hudson's Bay makes this place very visit-worthy.

[URBAN NOTE] Six city links: Detroit, Oslo, Cox's Bazar, Ho Chi Minh City, Shenzhen, Tokyo

• CityLab notes a new black-owned food coop in Detroit.


• CityLab notes the cool new designs of a new Oslo subway station.


• Al Jazeera notes the vulnerability of Cox's Bazar, the Bangladesh city that is the heart of the Rohingya refugee settlements, to climate change.


• Guardian Cities notes how rapid redevelopment is devastating the architectural heritage of Ho Chi Minh City.


• This Culture Trip article looks at how, among other things, copying foreign technology helped make Shenzhen a global tech hub.


• Tokyo is offering subway users free food if they opt to travel on the subway outside of peak times, CityLab notes.