[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Apostrophen's 'Nathan Smith talks about "cis", "trans", and the non-obvious meaning of this classification.
  
• The Big Picture shares photos of a recent sailing festival in Boston.


• blogTO reports on the trendy charcoal-black ice cream of a store across from Trinity Bellwoods.
  
• Centauri Dreams considers the idea of a "runaway fusion" drive.Crooked Timber wonders how a bad Brexit agreement could possibly be worse than no Brexit agreement for the United Kingdom.
  
• D-Brief warns of the possibility of sustained life-threatening heat waves in the tropics with global warming.
  
• The Everyday Sociology Blog considers how sociology majors are prepared, or not, for the workforce.


• Language Hat links to a wonderful examination of the textual complexities of James Joyce's Ulysses.


• The LRB Blog looks at how British big business is indebted to the Conservatives.


• Marginal Revolution reports on China's emergent pop music machine.


• Steve Munro reports on the latest on noise from the 514 Cherry streetcar.


• The NYRB Daily has a fascinating exchange on consciousness and free will and where it all lies.
  
• The Planetary Society Blog reports on a successful expedition to Argentina to examine Kuiper Belt object MU69 via occultation.


• Peter Rukavina celebrates Charlottetown school crossing guard Dana Doyle.