[PHOTO] Garlanded trees, Canada Square entrance, Eglinton station

[PHOTO] Ten acorns from Barrel Warehouse Park, Waterloo

[PHOTO] Honey locust seed pods, from lower Bartlett Avenue

[BLOG] Some Sunday links

• Architectuul visits the studio of Barbas Lopes Arquitectos in Lisbon, here.


• Bad Astronomer takes a look at a new paper examining the effectiveness of different asteroid detection technologies, including nuclear weapons.


• Centauri Dreams reports on a new study suggesting potentially habitable planets orbiting Alpha Centauri B, smaller of the two stars, could suffer from rapid shifts of their axes.


• John Quiggin at Crooked Timber argues some polls suggest some American conservatives really would prefer Russia as a model to California.


• Bruce Dorminey notes the discovery, by the Murchison Widefield Array in Australia, of 27 supernova remnants in our galaxy.


• The Dragon's Tales shares a collection of links about stealth aircraft, here.


• Gizmodo notes a new study suggesting that DNA is but one of very very many potential genetic molecules.


• Language Hat shares a reevaluation of the Richard Stanyhurst translation of the Aeneid, with its manufactured words. Why mightn't this have been not mockable but rather creative?


• Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns and Money celebrated the 50th anniversary of the takeover of Alcatraz Island by Native American activists.


• Chris Bertram writes at the LRB Blog, after the catastrophe of the Essex van filled with dozens of dead migrants, about the architecture of exclusion that keeps out migrants.


• Marginal Revolution shares a comment looking at the fentanyl crisis from a new angle.


• Jenny Uglow writes at the NYR Daily about a Science Museum exhibit highlighting the dynamic joys of science and its progress over the centuries.


• Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw takes a look at the question of how to prevent the wildfires currently raging in Australia. What could have been done, what should be done?


• The Planetary Society Blog reports on proposals from China for two long-range probe missions to interstellar space, including a Neptune flyby.


• Drew Rowsome reviews the wonderfully innocent Pinocchio currently playing at the Young People's Theatre.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel looks at the evidence for the universe, maybe, being closed.


• Window on Eurasia notes that the Alexandria Patriarchate is the next Orthodox body to recognize the Ukrainian church.


• Arnold Zwicky looks at irregular versus regular, as a queer word too.

[PHOTO] "Jesus Saves", St. Clair Avenue West

[PHOTO] "You Are Loved" (#queer, #lgbtq)

[PHOTO] Looking west at Humber Bay Shores

[NEWS] Five NYR Daily links: Colombia, slavery, churches, journalism, Shakespeare&Co (@nyr_daily)

• The NYR Daily shares a report from Colombia, about the ways in which the filling of the Hidroituango Dam interacts with Colombia's other social and political issues, here.


• Sean Wilentz makes the compelling argument at the NYR Daily that the young United States was a critical venue for antislavery movements, here.


• The NYR Daily tells the stories of two churches, one white and one black, as they merge, here.


• The NYR Daily shares the stories of a half-dozen pioneering, but overlooked, black woman journalists in the United States, here.


• Caitlin O'Keefe tells at the NYR Daily of how Paris bookstore Shakespeare and Company played a key role in the growth of feminism, here.

[NEWS[ Five Windw on Eurasia links: Estonia, eugenics

• Window on Eurasia notes how Russia continues to oppose the recognition of the 1920 Treaty of Tartu as the basis for Russia-Estonia relations, here.


• Window on Eurasia reports on how, and why, Stalin cracked down on eugenics as a permissible theory in the Soviet Union, here.


• Window on Eurasia reports on polling suggesting Russians are more interested in their country acting as a great power than as an empire, here.


• Window on Eurasia notes how, in the space of the former Soviet Union, population growth in the six Muslim-majority republics more than compensates in absolute numbers for declines elsewhere.


• Window on Eurasia notes the resettlement of a couple hundred Old Believers, part of a diaspora of perhaps seven thousand, in the Far East of Russia.