[PHOTO] AIDS Memorial, verso, with alliums

[PHOTO] Eastern evening sky with feathered clouds

[PHOTO] Late evening sky southeast of Dupont and Dufferin, blue with cirrus clouds

[PHOTO] East along Wallace Avenue

[BLOG] Some Monday links

• Centauri Dreams considers the recent study of near-Earth asteroid 1999 KW4, looking at it from the perspective of defending the Earth and building a civilization in space.


• Ingrid Robeyns at Crooked Timber continues a debate on universal basic income.


• The Dragon's Tales considers if India does need its own military space force.


• JSTOR Daily looks at how foster care in the United States (Canada, too, I'd add) was also synonymous with sending children off as unpaid farm labourers.


• Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns and Money shares a proposal, linking immigration to high-income countries to the idea of immigration as reparation for colonialism.


• The LRB Blog considers the ever-growing presence of the dead on networks like Facebook.


• Muhammad Idrees Ahmad at the NYR Daily looks at how Bellingcat and other online agencies have transformed investigative journalism.


• The Russian Demographics Blog shares a speech by the head of the Bank of Japan talking about the interactions of demographic change and economic growth.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel notes the mystery behind the great mass of early black hole J1342+0928.


• Strange Company looks at the unsolved Christmas 1928 disappearance of young Melvin Horst from Orrville, Ohio. What happened?


• Window on Eurasia notes that Uzbekistan is moving the Latin script for Uzbek into closer conformity with its Turkish model.

[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: Artscape, PoP Shoppe, Funhouse,

• Tanya Mok at blogTO looks at Artscape Weston Common.


• Jamie Bradburn looks at the heyday of the PoP Shoppe, a late 1970s chain specializing in different kids of soda drinks.


• Toronto Life reports on the Funhouse experience created inside an old Buddhist temple off Queen Street West.


• blogTO notes that, at least so far as absolute numbers are concerned, Toronto is the fastest-growing city in the United States and Canada.


• Toronto Life reports on a home in the Annex that was sold a decade and a half ago at three hundred thousand and just now went for 1.5 million.

[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Montréal, New York City, London, Ljubljana, Tokyo

• CTV News reports that affordable rentals in Montréal are starting to disappear.


• New York City's High Line Park has celebrated its 10th anniversary. Has this beautiful park driven gentrification? Global News reports.


• Guardian Cities reports on a recent London exhibition that profiles that city's buried rivers and streams.


• Guardian Cities looks at how Ljubljana managed to radically reduce its waste.


• Guardian Cities wonders if this year will be the year that the metropolis of Tokyo opens up and internationalizes.

[ISL] Five #PEI links: Airbnb, Charlottetown Mall, Crapaud, Région Évangéline, seaweed pie

• CBC Prince Edward Island notes the proportionally extreme impact of Airbnb on the very tight housing market in Charlottetown.


• The Guardian notes the redevelopment of the Charlottetown Mall will see new stores and several hundred new housing units.


• Peter Rukavina reports on his successful electronic mapping of every building in the community of Crapaud.


• CBC Prince Edward Island notes that a move to amalgamate the predominantly Francophone and Acadian west-end Région Évangéline into a single municipality has halted.


• Atlas Obscura reports on the PEI dish of seaweed pie, made from Irish moss, once in the community of Miminegash and now available at the Canadian Potato Museum in O'Leary.