[PHOTO] Cross-section at the track level, Rosedale

While I was stranded briefly at Rosedale station Thursday night, displaced by a system malfunction of some kind, I saw this layered pattern stretching to the opposite site of the station.

[PHOTO] Three photos from Saturday evening at the Galleria Mall

Dipping into the Galleria Mall last night around 6:30 for some errands, I could see the clean warm lines of the central concourse more clearly than ever before. Though the independent shops which lined this space are not gone, closed or relocated (St. Clair Avenue West seemed a popular address), I still felt a certain warmth to this agora for all of its 70s tiled colour scheme.

[BLOG] Some Sunday links

• Architectuul looks at the photos and the architecture of Carlo Mollino, all curves.


• Centauri Dreams notes a remarkable piece of detective work, identifying candidate stars responsible for a close encounter that threw a planet of star HD 109606 into a distant eccentric orbit.


• John Holbo at Crooked Timber takes a second look at the "Historovox" concept raised by Corey Robin.


• D-Brief notes a study suggesting planets in close orbit of red dwarf stars could experience sufficient tectonic stresses from their star to remain geologically active.


• Far Outliers looks at how and why, in Calcutta, the poor were kept physically close to the rich.


• Gizmodo reports on a massive nuclear superbubble thousands of light-years wide in the heart of galaxy NGC 3079, with photos.


• Hornet Stories shares a shortlist of essential books by LGBTQ writers from the United Kingdom.


• JSTOR Daily notes how architect Mary Colter came up with ingenious buildings for the Grand Canyon that fit this unique environment.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money shares a compelling argument against the Electoral College.


• Marginal Revolution notes that Mormonism stands out among American religions as enjoying continued, if decelerating, growth.


• The NYR Daily considers if there is a point at which empathy becomes banal.


• Corey S. Powell writes at Out There about how the Spirit and Opportunity rovers were deeply meaningful surrogates for human minds on Mars.


• Justin Petrone at north! argues that MTV's The Real World set a precedent for individual people to be self-curating and self-creating their representations.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel notes the historic discovery of the cosmic neutrino background, a signal formed one second after the Big Bang.


• Frank Jacobs at Strange Maps shares a map showing the long train journey of Kim Jong-um across China to the recent summit in Hanoi.


• Towleroad notes that the Donald Duck comic is going to see a lesbian character for the first time.


• Window on Eurasia notes how a new Russian governmental process of optimization is undermining many small communities in rural Russia, a picture familiar to many in Canada, too.

[URBAN NOTE] Seven Toronto links: winter, Ontario Place, architecture, TTC, film, tax

• The Daily Hive Toronto notes that Toronto is definitely seeing more snow than normal this winter.


• Urban Toronto notes that different levels of government are seeking public input into what to do with Ontario Place.


• Richard Longley writes at NOW Toronto about the history and heritage of the now-demolish Davisville Public School.


• This Canadian Architect article is an interview with architect Karim Khalifa, involved with Sidewalk Labs.


• CBC reports on the many factors leading to unchecked fare evasion on the TTC.


• Ryan Porter writes for the Canadian Press about how the booming Toronto film and television industry is facing a lack of studio space.


• Edward Keenan writes at the Toronto Star about how increased property taxes are a perfectly workable solution to the revenue problems of Toronto.

[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Kingston, Montréal, Chicago, New Orleans, Buenos Aires

• Plans for a residential development in Kingston's west-end Graceland district have raised environmental concerns. Global News reports.


• HuffPostQuebec shares the exciting plans for expanding and modernizing the complex around the Oratoire Saint-Joseph.


• CityLab notes how, despite having a declining black population, Chicago is set to elect a black mayor.


• VICE looks at the bars and nightclubs in uptown New Orleans that, in the 1970s, hosted the city's jazz and funk scenes.


• Guardian Cities reports on the murga, the latest dance/pop culture craze in Buenos Aires.

[NEWS] Five space science links: Neptunian Trojans, FarFarOut, Planet 9, black holes, M31N 2008-12a

• What is up with the unexpectedly colourful Neptunian Trojan asteroids? Scientific American reports.


• Universe Today notes the very recent discovery of outer system body FarFarOut, 140 astronomical units away.


• Universe Today looks at the latest evidence for the existence of Planet Nine, in the twisted orbits of outer solar system bodies.


• Daily Galaxy notes that a hundred million black holes, almost all of them unknown to us, likely exist in the Milky Way Galaxy.


• Evan Gough at Universe Today reports on the mysterious recurring nova M31N 2008-12a, exploding once a year off in the Andromeda Galaxy.