[PHOTO] Backyards at night, Dovercourt Village

[BLOG] Some Monday links

• Colby King writes at the Everyday Sociology Blog about furnace, kiln, and oven operators as recorded in the American Community Survey. What experiences do they have in common, and which separate them?


• Far Outliers reports on the work of the Indian Labourer Corps on the Western Front, collecting and recycling raw materials from the front.


• L.M. Sacasas at The Frailest Thing makes the case that the seeming neutrality of modern digital technologies are dissolving the established political order.


• Joe. My. God. notes a report from Andrew McCabe suggesting that Trump did not believe his own intelligence services' reports about the range of North Korean missiles, instead believing Putin.


• JSTOR Daily notes how the interracial marriages of serving members of the US military led to the liberalization of immigration law in the United States in the 1960s.


• Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns and Money reports on the connections of the police in Portland, Oregon, to the alt-right.


• Alex Tabarrok at Marginal Revolution shares a report of the discovery of English-speaking unicorns in South America that actually reveals the remarkable language skills of a new AI. Fake news, indeed.


• The NYR Daily shares a short story by Panashe Chigumadzi, "You Can't Eat Beauty".


• Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw welcomes a new fluidity in Australian politics that makes the elections debatable.


• Drew Rowsome looks at the horror fiction of Justin Cronin.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel shares some of the key historical images of Pluto, from its discovery to the present.


• Window on Eurasia takes a look at the only church of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church operating in Russia, in the Moscow area city of Noginsk.


• Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell makes the point that counting on opinion pieces in journalism as a source of unbiased information is a categorical mistake.


• Arnold Zwicky looks back, on President's Day at Berkeley, at his experiences and those of others around him at that university and in its community.

[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: homelessness, Port Lands, housing, Winter Stations, Cracked Wheat

• There will be a new shelter for homeless youth in Scarborough soon, capable of housing several dozen people. CBC reports.


• Christopher Hume at the Toronto Star suggests that much of the controversy, at least, over Google's plans in the Port Lands is misjudged.


• Tess Kalinowski at the Toronto Star shares some locally new ideas for increasing housing supply.


• Winter Stations is back this winter at Ashbridge's Bay! Global News reports.


• Sarah Ratzlaff at Spacing interviews sculptor Shary Boyle about her new work, Cracked Wheat, on display in front of the Gardiner Museum.

[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Montréal, Dayton, London, Singapore, Berlin

• CBC Montreal reports on how, and why, an Anglican church in Montréal will be hosting a circus.


• Ozy reports on how Dayton, Ohio, has managed to thrive in integrating its immigrant populations.


• CityLab notes how the Tate Modern gallery in London won a lawsuit against neighbours who complained gallery-goers could see inside their homes.


• Linda Lim at Bloomberg explains why Singapore is not a useful model for the post-Brexit United Kingdom.


• Amro Ali, writing at Open Democracy, makes a case for the emergence of Berlin as a capital for Arab exiles.

[PHOTO] Five photo links: Jonathon Keats, architecture, Sophie Calle, QSize, Fernando Bengoecha

• Motherboard reports on the Millennium Cameras of Jonathon Keats, who will be taking photos with a thousand-year exposure from the Lake Tahoe shoreline to document climate change.


• Oliver Wainwright at The Guardian reports on the growing impact of Instagram, and social photography generally, on architecture and design.


• JSTOR Daily reports on the photography of love and obsession of Sophie Calle.


• Drew Rowsome looks at the photography of QSize.


• Peter Rukavina shared a link to a documentary telling the story of photographer Fernando Bengoecha, whose photo of Amsterdam has become iconic thanks to its IKEA association.

[WRITING] Five #writing links: E-mail, online rhetoric, writing habit, Hannah Berry

• JSTOR Daily examines the anthropology of the office E-mail.


• VICE shares useful advice from a professor of rhetoric on how to engage in online discussions.


• I agree entirely with the arguments of Darius Foroux on the benefits of a daily writing habit and how to establish one.


• Patricia Wrede notes some circumstances, like erratic schedules, in which daily writing quotas might not work well.


• Comics Beat reports on why award-winning British graphic novelist Hannah Berry has given up her craft: She just cannot support herself by it.