[PHOTO] Bright evening sky, south-facing, Yonge and Eglinton

[PHOTO] Looking west and east, Dupont at Bartlett

[BLOG] Some Monday links

• Bad Astronomy's Phil Plait looks at Westerlund-1, a massive star cluster with many bright stars in our galaxy.


• Centauri Dreams notes a finding that giant planets like Jupiter are less likely to be found around Sun-like stars.


• D-Brief notes how, in a time of climate change, birds migrated between Canada and the equator.


• Bruce Dorminey lists five overlooked facts about the Apollo 11 mission.


• The Dragon's Tales notes that the US House of Representatives has approved the creation of a US Space Corps analogous to the Marines.


• JSTOR Daily considers tactics to cure groupthink.


• Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution, looking at the experience of Hong Kong, observes how closely economic freedoms depend on political freedom and legitimacy.


• Casey Dreier at the Planetary Society Blog explains his rationale for calculating that the Apollo project, in 2019 dollars, cost more than $US 700 billion.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel looks at the star R136a1, a star in the 30 Doradus cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud that is the most massive star known to exist.


• Window on Eurasia notes how Circassians in Syria find it very difficult to seek refuge in their ancestral lands in the North Caucasus.


• Arnold Zwicky looks, in occasionally NSFW detail, at the importance of June the 16th for him as a date.

[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: HTO Beach, street art, transit, Draper Street, real estate

• Toronto's HTO Park, a fake beach on the waterfront of Queens Quay, has been flooded out by Lake Ontario, too. blogTO reports.


• This open-air street art museum around Dundas West is an ingenious idea. blogTO reports.
  
• David Hains at Spacing explains how the TTC plans for major sports events, like the recent Raptors series.


• One house in Corso Italia has just gone on the real estate market for the first time since 1919. The Toronto Star reports.


• The row of vintage homes on Draper Street and its recently passed keeper are memorialized nicely here. The Toronto Star reports.

[ISL] Four #PEI links: Lupins, politics, elections, Pride

• CBC Prince Edward Island looks at the famous lupins of Prince Edward Island, here.


• There were mixed emotions, CBC Prince Edward Island reports, as non-residents of the Abegweit First Nation at Scotchfort were allowed to vote in band elections for the first time.


• Politicians report that, notwithstanding the lack of a formal agreement, right now it looks as if the minority Conservative government could last until 2023. CBC PEI has it.


• The raising of the pride flag in Charlottetown follows reports of homophobia outside of the capital, as small towns like Alberton refused requests. The Guardian reports.

[URBAN NOTE] Five links on cities; Frank Lloyd Wright, populism, Paris Syndrome, neon, Speed

• CityLab reports on how a 3-D printer is being used to print models of some lost works of Frank Lloyd Wright, here.


• CityLab features an interview with French geographer Christophe Guilluy, who argues that populism is driven by the anger of the people left behind by globalization outside of major urban centres.


• BBC examines "Paris Syndrome", the psychotic state sometimes incited by travel to a famed destination.


• CityLab looks at the 20th century history of neon signage.


• Nathan Smith at The Outline makes the case that Speed, 25 years old, makes an excellent case for the importance of mass transit including buses, as a mode of transit open to all.