[BLOG] Some Friday links

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• James Bow shares a deeply personal memory about a streetcar stop by Queens Quay where his life was recently transformed.


• D-Brief notes that antimatter is one byproduct of lightning. (Really.)


• Daily JSTOR counsels against buying into the scam of "authenticity."


• Language Hat shares a 2005 essay by Patricia Palmer, talking about how the spread of English was intimately linked with imperialism, first in Ireland then overseas.


• Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns and Money is strongly against Black Friday.


• The NYR Daily notes that Donald Trump's hardline policies are not going to help bring about change in Cuba.


• Out There talks about how we are able to be pretty sure that interstellar asteorid 'Oumuamua is not an extraterrestrial artifact.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer tries to imagine, economically, what an American Ontario would be like.


• Roads and Kingdoms talks about some good local beer enjoyed in Chiapas.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel shares a list of ten scientific phenomena we should be thankful for, if we want to exist.


• Arnold Zwicky shares a photo of his Christmas bell flowering maple.