[CAT] Shakespeare, horizontal

[CAT] Five #caturday links: horror, returns, communications

• At JSTOR Daily, Stephanie Larson looks at how and why cats have been used in horror films.


• BBC reports on a black cat that was returned to its owners on Halloween six years after it disappeared.


• Sarah Basford as Lifehacker AU explains what different cat vocalizations man.


• Cats show love in many different ways. Non Pareil Online reports.


• Stephen Dowling at BBC Future looks at the different mistakes we make that keep us from understanding the friendliness of cats.

[PHOTO] Five photos from a night in Kensington Market, on Baldwin Street

[BLOG] Some Saturday links

• Bad Astronomy notes the mystery of distant active galaxy SDSS J163909+282447.1, with a supermassive black hole but few stars.


• Centauri Dreams shares a proposal from Robert Buckalew for craft to engage in planned panspermia, seeding life across the galaxy.


• The Crux looks at the theremin and the life of its creator, Leon Theremin.


• D-Brief notes that termites cannibalize their dead, for the good of the community.


• Dangerous Minds looks at William Burroughs' Blade Runner, an adaptation of a 1979 science fiction novel by Alan Nourse.


• Bruce Dorminey notes a new study explaining how the Milky Way Galaxy, and the rest of the Local Group, was heavily influenced by its birth environment.


• JSTOR Daily looks at why the Chernobyl control room is now open for tourists.


• Dale Campos at Lawyers. Guns and Money looks at the effects of inequality on support for right-wing politics.


• James Butler at the LRB Blog looks at the decay and transformation of British politics, with Keith Vaz and Brexit.


• Marginal Revolution shares a paper explaining why queens are more warlike than kings.


• Omar G. Encarnación at the NYR Daily looks at how Spain has made reparations to LGBTQ people for past homophobia. Why should the United States not do the same?


• Corey S. Powell at Out There shares his interview with physicist Sean Carroll on the reality of the Many Worlds Theory. There may be endless copies of each of us out there. (Where?)


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains why 5G is almost certainly safe for humans.


• Strange Company shares a newspaper clipping reporting on a haunting in Wales' Plas Mawr castle.


• Frank Jacobs at Strange Maps looks at all the different names for Africa throughout the years.


• The Volokh Conspiracy considers, in the case of the disposal of eastern Oklahoma, whether federal Indian law should be textualist. (They argue against.)


• Window on Eurasia notes the interest of the government of Ukraine in supporting Ukrainians and other minorities in Russia.


• Arnold Zwicky looks at syntax on signs for Sloppy Joe's.

[URBAN NOTE] Seven Toronto links

• Jamie Bradburn shares photos from his neighbourhood's East Lynn Pumpkin Parade, here.


• Sidewalk Labs is going to release details of all the data it wants to collect. The Toronto Star reports.


• NOW Toronto reports on the controversy in the NDP riding association for Parkdale-High Park over the nomination, here.


• There is a napping studio in Toronto, offering people the chance to nap for 25 minutes at $10 per nap. The National Post reports.


• CBC reports on a film about Little Jamaica, a neighbourhood along Eglinton Avenue West that might be transformed out of existence, here
  
• Daily Xtra looks at the legacy of the Meghan Murphy visit to Toronto.


• Spacing notes that the Toronto Reference Library has a large collection of Communist newspapers available for visitors.


• The idea of Metrolinx paying for the repair of damaged Eglinton Avenue does make a lot of intuitive sense. CBC reports.

[URBAN NOTE]Seven city links: Ottawa, Montréal, NYC, Calgary and Edmonton, Vancouver, Sao Paulo ...

• Ottawa mayor Jim Watson vows to vix the LRT Confederation Line. Global News reports.


• Home-buyers in Montréal are having to buy outside of the city, in the West Island and even the mainland. The Montreal Gazette reports.


• VICE looks at the legacy of Michael Stewart, a New York City graffiti artist famously killed in the 1980s, here.


• The LRT projects in Calgary and Edmonton are currently facing terrible uncertainty thanks to new legislation. Global News reports.


• New maps show the great damage that could be caused by sea level rise in Metro Vancouver. Global News reports.


• Spacing reports on an amazing graphic novel biography of Sao Paulo.


• Guardian Cities looks at the problematic gentrification of Soweto, here.