Jan. 26th, 2019
A Toronto Life feature let me know that Kleinfeld, a bridal store on the seventh story of the Bay flagship store at Yonge and Queen, had transformed the corridor from the elevator to the store doors into a venue for eight different installations. Not going to this delightful free show, on for the next month, was not an option for me.












































[BLOG] Some Saturday links
Jan. 26th, 2019 05:14 pm- Bad Astronomer Phil Plait explains the potential discovery of an ancient rock from Earth among the Moon rocks collected by Apollo.
- Centauri Dreams looks at what will be coming next from the New Horizons probe after its Ultima Thule flyby.
- The Crux looks at the genetic library of threatened animals preserved cryogenically in a San Diego zoo.
- Far Outliers looks at the drastic, even catastrophic, population changes of Sichuan over the past centuries.
- Language Hat looks at translations made in the medieval Kingdom of Jerusalem.
- Language Log tries to translate a possibly Indo-European sentence preserved in an ancient Chinese text.
- Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the complexity of the crisis in Venezuela.
- The LRB Blog looks at the Mexican-American border in this era of crisis.
- Marginal Revolution notes a spike in unsolved shootings in Baltimore following protests against police racism.
- Noah Smith reviews the new Tyler Cowen book, Stubborn Attachments.
- Adam Shatz at the NYR Daily reviews what sounds like a fantastic album of anti-colonial Francophone music inspired by Frantz Fanon and assembled by French rapper Rocé.
- The Planetary Society Blog takes a look what is next for China as it continues its program to explore the Moon.
- Roads and Kingdoms interviews Monique Jaques about her new photo book looking at the lives of girls growing up in Gaza.
- Rocky Planets takes a look at how rocks can form political boundaries.
- Drew Rowsome interviews choreographer Christopher House about his career and the next shows at the Toronto Dance Theatre.
- Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel takes a look at the seeming featurelessness of Uranus.
- Frank Jacobs at Strange Maps looks at a controversial swap of land proposed between Serbia and Kosovo.
- Window on Eurasia notes the controversial possibility of China contracting Russia to divert Siberian rivers as a water supply.
- Arnold Zwicky looks at the origins of Uri and Avi, a photo of apparently showing two men, one Palestinian and one Israeli, kissing.
- Are the radio jets of Sagittarius A* at the heart of our galaxy pointed directly at Earth? D-Brief reports reports.
- Astronomers might finally have established a firm connection between supernovas and gamma-ray bursts. D-Brief reports reports.
- The length of a day on Saturn has finally been established, at just over 10 hours and 33 minutes. D-Brief reports reports.
- The supposed signature of Planet Nine might be a creation not of a ninth planet but rather by a thick distant belt of objects. D-Brief reports reports.
- Did the collision of protoplanet Theia with the young Earth seen the subsequent world with the materials needed for life? D-Brief reports reports.
- The very idea of an encyclopedia of galactic starlight is profoundly poetic, to say nothing of its scientific uses. D-Brief reports reports.
- JSTOR looks at the silkwomen of medieval London.
- JSTOR Daily looks at the public spectacle of dissections in the medieval and early modern worlds.
- JSTOR Daily explores the mysteries surrounding the death of American explorer Meriwether Lewis.
- JSTOR Daily explores the motivations behind Byrd's south polar expedition of 1928-1930.
- JSTOR Daily cautions against fearing a "sex recession".
- JSTOR Daily explores the concept of warp drive, a technology that might actually be doable.