[BLOG] Some Monday links

• Bad Astronomer Phil Plait observes that a team may have discovered the elusive neutron star produced by Supernova 1987A, hidden behind a cloud of dust.


• Chris Bertram at Crooked Timber shares a photo he made via the time-consuming 19th century wet-plate collodion method.


• Drew Ex Machina's Andrew LePage looks at the Apollo 12 visit to the Surveyor 3 site to, among other things, see what it might suggest about future space archeology.


• Karen Sternheimer at the Everyday Sociology Blog looks at the story of rural poverty facing a family in Waverly, Ohio, observing how it is a systemic issue.


• George Dvorsky at Gizmodo looks at how Mars' Jezero crater seems to have had a past relatively friendly to life, good for the next NASA rover.


• Joe. My. God. reports on the latest ignorance displayed by Donald Trump Jr. on Twitter, this time regarding HIV.


• JSTOR Daily looks at how Climategate was used to undermine popular opinion on climate change.


• Language Hat links to an article explaining why so many works of classical literature were lost, among other things not making it onto school curricula.


• Language Log shares a photo of a Muji eraser with an odd English label.


• Scott Lemieux at Lawyers, Guns and Money suggests Pete Buttigieg faces a campaign-limiting ceiling to his support among Democrats.


• The LRB Blog argues that Macron's blocking of EU membership possibilities for the western Balkans is a terrible mistake.


• The Map Room Blog shares a map depicting regional variations in Canada towards anthropogenic climate change. Despite data issues, the overall trend of oil-producing regions being skeptical is clear.


• Marginal Revolution links to a paper examining the slowing pace of labour mobility in the US, suggesting that home attachment is a key factor.


• Frederic Wehrey at the NYR Daily tells the story of Knud Holmboe, a Danish journalist who came to learn about the Arab world working against Italy in Libya.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains why thermodynamics does not explain our perception of time.


• Understanding Society's Dan Little looks at Electronic Health Records and how they can lead to medical mistakes.


• Whatever's John Scalzi shares a remarkable photo of the night sky he took using the astrophotography mode on his Pixel 4 phone.


• Window on Eurasia shares an opinion that the Intermarium countries, between Germany and Russia, can no longer count on the US and need to organize in their self-defense.


• Arnold Zwicky shares a photo of his handsome late partner Jacques Transue, taken as a college student.

[URBAN NOTE] Nine Toronto links

• Metrolinx using paid influencers to promote the Ontario Line is certainly a choice. The Toronto Star reports.


• Union Station retiring an old mechanical system 90 years old used to control TTC vehicles is a landmark event. The Metrolinx blog reports.


• Jamie Bradburn looks at the birth of the Gardiner Expressway, here.


• Alok Mukherjee at Spacing questions why police in Toronto have stopped enforcing traffic regulations.


• Protesters charged with blocking the Bloor Viaduct during the Extinction Rebellion have had the charges dropped. Global News reports.


• Sean Marshall shared his account of his address to the Toronto Police Services board, here.


• Jamie Bradburn looks at the history behind the mid-20th century expansion of Church Street.


• NOW Toronto notes that workers at the Broadview Hotel have become unionized.


• Samantha Lui writes at NOW Toronto against the false negative stereotypes applied by so many--even briefly by Google--to Scarborough.


• CBC notes that a lawsuit surrounding benefits fraud by TTC employees has been settled, expensively.

[URBAN NOTE] Seven city links: Ottawa, Longueuil, Montréal, Winnipeg, Saint John, Halifax, Lethbridg

• The Ottawa Citizen suggests a recent audit of OC Transpo should have offered warnings of the Confederation Line problems to come.


• A project office has been set up for the extension of the Yellow Line in Longueuil and elsewhere on the south shore. CTV News reports.


• La Presse looks at the concerns of some artists in Rosemont-La-Petite-Patrie that they might be forced out by gentrification.


• That the Bay Building in downtown Winnipeg has been evaluated as being of little value offers an opening to Heritage Winnipeg. Global News reports.


• The New Brunswick government is forcing suburbs of Saint John to pay for city facilities that they also used. Global News reports.


• Short-term rentals are having a negative effect on real estate markets in Halifax. Global News reports.


• Downtown Lethbridge faces struggles to attract business. Global News reports.