[PHOTO] Clouds above wires, looking north at Dupont west of Bartlett

[PHOTO] 504 King crossing at York Street

[PHOTO] Looking northwest, Yonge and King

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

• Bad Astronomer notes the latest news on interstellar comet 2/Borisov.


• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly emphasizes how every writer does need an editor.


• Centauri Dreams notes how the gas giant GJ 3512 b, half the mass of Jupiter orbiting a red dwarf star closely, is an oddly massive exoplanet.


• Gina Schouten at Crooked Timber looks at inter-generational clashes on parenting styles.


• D-Brief looks at the methods of agriculture that could conceivably sustain a populous human colony on Mars.


• Bruce Dorminey argues that we on Earth need something like Starfleet Academy, to help us advance into space.


• Colby King at the Everyday Sociology Blog looks at how the socio-spatial perspective helps us understand the development of cities.

Russell Arben Fox at In Media Res listens to the Paul McCartney album Flaming Pie.

• io9 looks at Proxima, a contemporary spaceflight film starring Eva Green.


• JSTOR Daily looks at how the intense relationship between the US and Saudi Arabia began in, and reflected, the era of Jim Crow.


• Language Hat notes a report suggesting that multilingualism helps ward off dementia.


• Language Log takes issue with the names of the mascots of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the emergence of a ninth woman complaining about being harassed by Al Franken.


• Marginal Revolution links to a new paper arguing that the Washington Consensus worked.


• The NYR Daily shares an Aubrey Nolan cartoon illustrating the evacuation of war children in the United Kingdom during the Second World War.


• At Out of Ambit, Diane Duane shares a nice collection of links for digital mapmakers.


• The Planetary Society Blog looks at how the European Space Agency supports the cause of planetary defense.


• Roads and Kingdoms interviews Kenyan writer Kevin Mwachiro at length.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel reports on how a mysterious fast radio burst helped illuminate an equally mysterious galactic halo.


• Strange Company reports on the mysterious and unsolved death in 1936 of Canadian student Thomas Moss in an Oxfordshire hayrick.


• Frank Jacobs at Strange Maps notes how Mount Etna is a surpassingly rare decipoint.


• Understanding Society considers the thought of Kojève, after Hegel, on freedom.


• Window on Eurasia looks at the falling numbers of Russians, and of state support for Russian language and culture, in independent Central Asia.


• Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell looks at how individual consumer responses are much less effective than concerted collective action in triggering change.


• Arnold Zwicky reports on some transgender fashion models.

[URBAN NOTE] Seven Toronto links

• blogTO shares photos from Yorkdale Mall during its power outage Saturday.


• blogTO reports that Toronto hosts, by one measurement, one of the biggest housing bubbles in the world.


• The story of how a neighbourhood project painted over the Ossington Laneway, vandalizing the graffiti there, is a sad one. blogTO has it.


• Judging by his filmed confession, the only chance Alek Minassian has to avoid a very lengthy prison sentence is a perhaps-unlikely insanity plea. CBC reports.


• NOW Toronto reports on the climate strike protests held Friday in Toronto.


• The Toronto Star reports on the mass protests held on Sunday to keep homophobic Christians from marching into Church and Wellesley.


• Steve Munro reports on the statistical sleight of hand apparently used to make the TTC Bombardier streetcars of the TTC look better.