Aug. 24th, 2019

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  • Architectuul notes a bike tour of Bauhaus architecture in Berlin.

  • Bad Astronomy Phil Plait notes the discovery of Beta Pictoris c, a second super-Jovian planet in that young system.

  • Centauri Dreams notes that the NASA Europa Clipper is moving ahead.

  • Crooked Timber shares a gorgeous night photo of San Giorgio Maggiore, in Venice.

  • The Crux notes what we are learning about the Denisovans.

  • D-Brief notes that Neanderthals were prone to swimmer's ear.

  • Dangerous Minds looks at some of the pop culture likes of Karl Marx.

  • Drew Ex Machina's Andrew LePage looks at the exoplanets of GJ 1061.

  • Earther notes how Icelanders mourned the loss of a glacier in a ceremony.

  • Whitney Kimball at Gizmodo looks at what the mass data loss of more than a decade's worth of music at Myspace means for our Internet era.

  • Imageo shares photos of spiraling cloud formations photographed at night from space.

  • Ian Humberstone at The Island Review writes about his witnessing of the bonxies, birds of the Shetlands.

  • Joe. My. God. notes a report suggesting Trump joked about swapping Greenland for Puerto Rico.

  • JSTOR Daily notes how the rhythmic dancing of the Shakers in 18th century America marked that sect as different.

  • Language Hat considers the humour of some philosophers.

  • Language Log notes the oblique commentaries of Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing on his city-state's protests.

  • Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the idiocy of the Trump fetish for Greenland.

  • The Map Room Blog notes how astronomers have mapped the Local Void, of deep intergalactic space.

  • Marginal Revolution wonders if the future of Venice might be found in its becoming a Chinese portal into Europe.

  • Sean Marshall notes how the Ford government is undermining conservation in Ontario.

  • The NYR Daily shares some of the New York City photography of Phil Penman.

  • Starts With A Bang's notes the immense storms of Saturn.

  • Strange Company shares a weekend collection of links.

  • Window on Eurasia looks at how Belarus plans on reorganizing its internal structures to try to minimize rural depopulation.

  • Nick Rowe at Worthwhile Canadian Initiative talks about monetary policy in metaphors.

  • Arnold Zwicky looks at some penguins from around the world.

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  • It has been one year since the disaster at 650 Parliament. Global News reports.

  • The Star looks at how, after the 650 Parliament disaster, St. James Town is coping with the loss of a tenth of its population, right here.

  • A community group opposed the idea of the Ontario Line running vehicles through their neighbourhood every 90 seconds. The Star reports.

  • For one man, Wayne Malley, being lost at the CNE as a child was an unforgettable adventure. The Star reports.

  • Toronto Life interviews people in Cabbagetown to see what they think about their neighbourhood's safe injection site, here.

  • NOW Toronto interviews six Torontonian musicians who left their city in search of affordable homes elsewhere, here.

  • Global News reports on the strange story of a retired TTC streetcar found in the middle of the forest.

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