[CAT] Shakespeare, at rest

[BLOG] Some Saturday links

• Bad Astronomy's Phil Plait reports on a dwarf galaxy collision with galaxy NGC 1232, producing waves of X-rays.


• The Toronto Library's The Buzz highlights a collection of books on LGBTQ themes for Pride month.


• Centauri Dreams looks at studies of the circumstellar disk of HD 163296.


• D-Brief reports that plastic debris may have contributed to a die-off of puffins by the Bering Sea.


• Bruce Dorminey shares an image of a rich star-forming region in Cepheus taken by the Spitzer telescope.


• Imageo reports how smoke from wildfires in Canada have covered literally millions of square kilometres of North America in smoke.


• io9 notes how, in the limited series Doomsday Clock, Doctor Manhattan has come to a new realization about Superman and the DC multiverse.


• JSTOR Daily looks at how Luddites are now fashionable again, with their critiques of technology.


• Language Log reports on a unique whistled version of the Turkish language.


• Lawyers Guns and Money takes a look its different writers' production over its 15 years.


• Emannuel Iduma writes at the NRY Daily about the young people, lives filled with promise, killed in the Biafran War.


• Corey S. Powell at Out There has an interesting idea: What items of food do the different planets of the solar system resemble?


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer looks at the many stupidities of the new Trump tariffs against Mexico.


• Peter Rukavina celebrates the 20th anniversary of his blog.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel reports on the exceptionally isolated galaxy MCG+01-02-015, in a void a hundred million light-years away from any other.


• Window on Eurasia looks at the changing politics and scholarship surrounding mass deaths in Soviet Kazakhstan in the 1930s. https://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2019/05/debate-on-mass-deaths-in-kazakhstan.html
  
• Arnold Zwicky looks at flowers coloured magenta in his California.

[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: TTC, Robarts, construction, subletting

• Steve Munro looks at the latest TTC quarterly report on crowding.


• Urban Toronto looks at the new expansion to Robarts Library.


• Urban Toronto looks at 2221 Yonge Street, latest tower to rise at Yonge and Eglinton.


• Urban Toronto looks at a new condo development taking advantage of the Line 1 extension into Vaughan.


• The subletting of apartments has become key for Toronto renters who want to keep their affordable housing while also being mobile. The Toronto Star reports.

[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Kingston, Ottawa, Amsterdam, Madrid, Yerevan

• Kingston, Ontario, is currently doing its best to cope with flood risk from the rising Lake Ontario. Global News reports.


• MacLean's reports on an appalling expansion of the iconic Chateau Laurier in Ottawa.


• CityLab reports on how Amsterdam is trying to avoid being overwhelmed by tourism.


• Guardian Cities reports on how the new government in Madrid plans to scrap a low-emissions zone because of a belief that congestion is a Madrid tradition.


• Roads and Kingdoms shares some tips for visitors to Yerevan.