[PHOTO] Fallen blossoms

[PHOTO] Moon over Dufferin Grove

[BLOG] Some Friday links

• Shir Lerman Ginzburg at anthro{dendum} writes about kintsugi in her own life.


• Bad Astronomy's Phil Plait looks at the massive black hole, massing two billion suns, measured in the heart of NGC 3258.


• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly shares some photos from her Hudson River life.


• D-Brief notes how astronomers may be able to detect the radio signals emitted from the cores of planets orbiting dead stars.


• The Everyday Sociology Blog looks at the sociology of religion.


• JSTOR Daily looks at how Ferdinand Magellan acted in many ways like a pirate.


• Language Hat reports on the remarkable differences between the two dubbed French versions of The Simpsons, one in France and one in Québec.


• Language Log reports on the Chinese placename "Xinjiang Uygur."


• Lawyers, Guns and Money makes the point that Joe Biden is too old, too set in his ways, to be president.


• Molly Crabapple writes at the NYR Daily about the nature and goals of the massive protest movement in Puerto Rico.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel looks even-handedly at the controversy surrounding the idea of building the Thirty Metre Telescope on top of sacred Mauna Kea.


• Window on Eurasia looks at controversy in Russia over the representation of different Tatar populations on the Russian 2020 census.


• Stephen Gordon at Worthwhile Canadian Initiative wonders why it was 1953 that, in Canada, saw the growth in women on the job market.

[URBAN NOTE} Seven Toronto links: CNE, 29 Dufferin, Rogers Road, Ontario Line, Green Line, renters

• blogTO reports on some new features at this year's iteration of the CNE.


• blogTO notes the terrible overcrowding and other dysfunctions of the 29 Dufferin bus.


• Sean Marshall reports on the last runs of the Rogers Road streetcar, ancestor of the 161 Rogers Road bus.


• Happily, weird pronunciations of "Avenue" are no longer heard on TTC buses. Global News reports.


• Transit Toronto shares the Metrolinx report on the economics of the proposed Ontario Line.


• blogTO reports on the good news that the Green Line park system, trailing south and east of Earlscourt Park, is going to be built.


• This Toronto Life photo essay examining five recently evicted renters is quietly horrifying.