[URBAN NOTE] Ten Montréal links

• MTL Blog shares this map of the Greater Montréal mass transit network, with a uniform design for all its networks, here.


• Exo commuters in Montréal are decidedly unhappy with the Exo chairperson for the unhelpful tips they gave. CTV News reports.


• Montréal has bought 140 acres of land in the West Island for its planned great park there. CTV News reports.


• Notre Dame East is set to be revamped as an urban boulevard. CTV News reports.


• Controversy over the Royalmount shopping complex grows. CBC reports.


• Montréal is reckoned by a Google team to be a major centre for game development. CTV News reports.


• A new fund seeks to increase the diversity of artists whose works are displayed in the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. CTV News reports.


• Montréal mayor Valérie Plante promises to help out record stores fined for being opened past 5 on a weekend. CTV News reports.


• Royal LePage suggests that home values in Montréal will grow sharply in 2020, more than in any other major Canadian city. CTV News reports.

[URBAN NOTE] Ten JSTOR Daily links (@jstor_daily)

• JSTOR Daily considers whether koalas are actually going extinct, here.


• JSTOR Daily looks at the life and accomplishments of Alexander Von Humboldt, here.


• JSTOR Daily looks at how a move to California doomed the Oneida Community, here.


• JSTOR Daily considers how the genetically diverse wild relatives of current crops could help our agriculture, here.


• JSTOR Daily looks at the devastating flood of Florence in 1966, here.


• JSTOR Daily points out there is no template for emotional intelligence, here.


• JSTOR Daily explores some remarkable lumpy pearls, here.


• JSTOR Daily notes an 1870 scare over the future of men, here.


• JSTOR Daily reports on the staging of war scenes for the 1945 documentary The Battle of San Pietro, here.


• JSTOR Daily considers the bioethics of growing human brains in a petri dish, here.

[BLOG] Five Marginal Revolution links

• Marginal Revolution considers if the CFA franc system is dying out, here.


• Marginal Revolution shares a link to a paper quantifying the effects of the old boys club, here.


• Marginal Revolution contrasts and compares the old NAFTA and the new USMCA, here.


• Marginal Revolution notes how Germany has access to nuclear weapons, here.


• Marginal Revolution looks at the high rate of consainguineous marriage in Saudi Arabia, here.

[BLOG] Five NYR Daily links (@nyr_daily)

• Garry Wills writes at the NYR Daily about the history of impeachment, here.


• David Rieff writes at the NYR about Peronism and the new president, in Argentina, here.


• The NYR Daily looks at the disaster soon to be visited by Brexit on Northern Ireland, here.


• Matt Seaton writes at the NYR Daily about what the recent British election reveals about the failing health of social democracy in England.


• The NYR Daily looks at the new movie Atlantics, which looks at migration and Africa.

[BLOG] Five Starts With A Bang links (@startswithabang)

• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains how the images of galaxies grow with the universe, here.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains how we can know the age of the universe, here.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains what an octonion is and what it might show about the universe, here.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains the surprise created by a detailed map of neutron star J0030+0451, here.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel suggests the mysterious near-supernova that Eta Carinae barely survived in the 19th century was actually a stellar collision, here.

[BLOG] Five Window on Eurasia links

• Window on Eurasia notes the post-Soviet collapse of the numbers of learners of the Russian language, here.


• Window on Eurasia reports the claim of a Russian politician that in 1991, securing the nuclear arsenal of Ukraine was a bigger priority than trying for borders changes, here.


• Window on Eurasia notes how Belarus cannot protect itself from Russia, here.


• Window on Eurasia explains why the Soviet Union let the Armenians and Georgians keep their alphabets, here.


• Window on Eurasia explains how Russia's naval and marine power is not doing well, here.