[PHOTO] Three photos taken from the West Toronto Railpath at Dupont

I was wonderi0g past midnight on this warm summer night along Dupont west to the West Toronto Railpath, where the pedestrian and rail bridges stretch over the muraled street below.

[PHOTO] Seventeen photos of the Nordheimer Ravine and St. Clair West

A couple of Sundays ago, I went exploring with Jim down in the Nordheimer Ravine, just south of St. Clair West station. We came across some sights of interest, not only the emergency exit used to evacuate subway passengers in the 1995 Russell Hill crash but an additional entrance to St. Clair West station, exiting in the forest on the south side of St. Clair Avenue West. The sight of this apparently fully functional exit, opening out not onto tiles but onto grassy forest floor, was magical.

[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

• Bad Astronomer Phil Plait notes that the galaxy's stores of star-forming gas are running low, here.


• Centauri Dreams notes the next generation of gravitational wave detectors could detect exoplanets, massive worlds orbiting binary white dwarfs.


• The Crux reports on what is known about Homo naledi.


• Karen Sternheimer at the Everyday Sociology Blog takes a look at the risks of social isolation.


• Far Outliers reports on three enclaves of Arab culture encountered by early Western explorers in 19th century East Africa.


• Gizmodo notes the steady progress made by LightSail 2 in its travel around the world.


• The Island Review shares the Phillip Miller poem "Biennale", inspired by Venice.


• Marginal Revolution looks at how the Norwegian Arctic island of Svalbard works without border controls.


• The NYR Daily notes that while America is not Rome, it thinks it is.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains some oddities of Higgs bosons.


• Understanding Society's Daniel Little looks at how the Kyshtym nuclear disaster occurred.


• Window on Eurasia notes that 5% of Russian Orthodox parishes in Ukraine have defected so far to the Ukrainian church.


• Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell applies information and management theory to Brexit.