[PHOTO] Penguin holiday family as seen across the street, on a sleety day

[PHOTO] Four photos of Downsview Park subway station

Downsview Park subway station is impressive, spacious in the right ways. If only it was more heavily used!

[PHOTO] In memory of the fallen, LiUNA Local 506 (@LiunaCanada)

[BLOG] Some Monday links

• Architectuul looks at the winners of an architecture prize based in Piran, here.


• Bad Astronomy's Phil Plait notes the wind emitted from one distant galaxy's supermassive black hole is intense enough to trigger star formation in other galaxies.


• Maria Farrell at Crooked Timber pays tribute to Jack Merritt, a young victim of the London Bridge attack who was committed to the cause of prisoner rehabilitation.


• Dangerous Minds looks at the history of French pop group Les Rita Mitsouko.


• Bruce Dorminey reports on the European Space Agency's belief Earth-observing spacecraft are needed to track ocean acidification.


• The Dragon's Tales reports on the consensus of the Russian scientific community against human genetic engineering.


• Far Outliers reports on the first ambassador sent from the Barbary States to the United States.


• JSTOR Daily reports on the life of pioneering anthropologist Franz Boas.


• Language Log shares images of a bottle of Tibetan water, bought in Hong Kong, labeled in Tibetan script.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money rightly assigns responsibility for the terrible measles outbreak in Samoa to anti-vaxxers.


• The LRB Blog notes how tree planting is not apolitical, might even not be a good thing to do sometimes.


• Marginal Revolution reports on a paper suggesting that food tends to be better in restaurants located on streets in Manhattan, better than in restaurants located on avenues.


• Justin Petrone at north! shares an account of a trip across Estonia.


• The NYR Daily looks at the photography of Michael Jang.


• Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw continues to report from Armidale, in Australia, shrouded in smoke from wildfires.


• The Planetary Society Blog reports on the early days of the Planetary Society, four decades ago.


• The Russian Demographics Blog looks at how centenarians in Sweden and in Denmark experience different trends in longevity.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel reports on the accidental discovery of the microwave background left by the Big Bang in 1964.


• Understanding Society's Daniel Little looks at the increasingly poor treatment of workers by employers such as Amazon through the lens of primitive accumulation.


• Window on Eurasia looks at the small differences separating the Kazakhs from the Kyrgyz.


• Arnold Zwicky shares a dance routine, shown on television in France, against homophobia.

[URBAN NOTE] Eight Toronto links

• blogTO notes the strange house, a fantasia inspired by Greece, at 1016 Shaw Street.


• blogTO shares photos from inside Paradise Theatre on Bloor, reopened after 13 years.


• blogTO notes that GO Transit will now be offering customers unlimited rides on Sundays for just $C 10.


• Photos of infamous Toronto chair girl Marcella Zoia celebrating her 20th birthday are up at blogTO, here.


• Many residents displaced by the Gosford fire in North York have been moved to hotels. Global News reports.


• A TTC worker has launched a court case against the TTC and city of Toronto over issues of air quality. Global News reports.


• Jamie Bradburn reports on how the Toronto press covered the opening of the Suez Canal, here.


• Transit Toronto explains what, exactly, workers are building at Eglinton station and Yonge and Eglinton more generally.