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Veteran Toronto online news hub Torontoist, silent for the past few months, has been acquired by Canadian combine Daily Hive. I wish Torontoist will; I miss it.

A tunnel connecting the Dundas West TTC station with the Bloor UP station, a few hundred metres apart, is in the works but is still some years away. Toronto.com reports.

A police officer who has been charged with negligence with regards to a 2016 claim of an assault by Bruce McArthur claims he is being made a fall guy. The Toronto Star has it.

CBC Toronto looks at the low attendance at the Africentric Alternative School, despite the high praise it receives.

At The Globe and Mail, former mayor John Sewell notes that the lack of consent of the City of Toronto to the takeover of the TTC by Ontario has some legal import.

CityLab takes a look at Geocities, one of the first online platforms for websites, looking at how it tried to create and maintain online neighbourhoods.

Ars Technica looks at the promise--sadly unfulfilled--of pioneering blogging platform Livejournal. It really could have been a contender.

Think Progress notes, more than a month after the purge by Tumblr of NSFW blogs, the far right remains active there.

This Huffington Post India article looks at the rising presence of pro-Hindutva answers put forth by Indian users on Quora.

Ars Technica notes that researchers can now, even if you do not actively participate on social media, predict what your content would likely be.

Centauri Dreams extends further consideration the roles that artificial intelligences might play in interstellar exploration.

D-Brief notes that the genes associated with being a night owl also seem to be associated with poor mental health outcomes.

Far Outliers looks at the lifeboat system created on the upper Yangtze in the late 19th century.

Kashmir Hill, writing at Gizmodo, notes how blocking Google from her phone left her online experience crippled.

Imageo notes that, even if halted, global warming still means that many glaciers well melt as they respond to temperature changes.

JSTOR Daily looks at the racism that permeated ads in 19th century North America.

Language Hat looks at how some Turkish-speaking Christians transcribed the Turkish language in the Greek alphabet.

Lawyers, Guns and Money notes how utterly ineffective the Trump Administration's new refugee waiver system actually is.

The LRB Blog looks at the film and theatre career of Lorenza Mazetti.

Marginal Revolution notes, in passing, the import of being a YouTube celebrity.

Molly Crabapple at the NYR Daily writes about the work of the New Sanctuary coalition, which among other things waits with refugees in court as they face their hearings.

The Speed River Journal's Van Waffle looks for traces of the elusive muskrat.

Towleroad shares footage of New Order performing the early song "Ceremony" in 1981.

Transit Toronto notes that Metrolinx now has an app for Presto up!

At Vintage Space, Amy Shira Teitel looks at the Soviet Moon exploration program in 1969.

Window on Eurasia notes the new pressures being placed by rising Islamism and instability in Afghanistan upon Turkmenistan.

Arnold Zwicky considers, briefly, the little is known about the lives of 1980s gay porn stars Greg Patton and Bobby Pyron. How did they lead their lives?

Architectuul celebrates the life and achievements of furniture designer Florence Basset Knoll.

Bad Astronomy notes the remarkably detailed 3d simulation of a solar flare.

At Crooked Timber, John Holbo engages with Corey Robin's article in The New Yorker on the question of why people moving politically from right to left are less prominent than counterparts moving from left to right.

Far Outliers takes a look at the rise and the fall of the international silk trade of China, from Roman times to the 20th century.

At The Frailest Thing, L.M. Sacasas writes about the importance of listening to observers at the "hinges", at the moments when things are changing.

Internet geographer Mark Graham links to a new chapters making the argument that cyberspace is not a novel new territory.

Language Log takes a look at a possible change in the representation of vocal fry as demonstrated in Doonesbury.

Lawyers, Guns and Money considers the background to the possible 2020 presidential bid of ex-Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz.

Marginal Revolution's Alex Tabarrok looks at a history of Aleppo that emphasizes the ancient city's history of catastrophes.

Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw takes issue with an online map highlighting factory farmers created by pressure group Aussie Farms. How meaningful is it, for starters?

The Russian Demographics Blog notes the timetable of the introduction of syphillis to Poland-Lithuania in the 1490s.

Window on Eurasia looks at Russian population prospects, noting the low fertility among the small cohort of women born in the 1990s.

Arnold Zwicky starts by sharing beautiful paintings and photos of tulips, and ends with a meditation on Crimean Gothic.

CBC Prince Edward Island reports on a poster showing the hundred largest islands in the world. (PEI is #96.)

A broken undersea cable has disrupted Internet service throughout the Kingdom of Tonga, Motherboard reports.

The melting of ice is southwestern Greenland is accelerating, CBC reports.

CityLab notes controversy in Montréal regarding plans to redesign the insular Parc-Jean-Drapeau.

Al Jazeera looks at the problems facing the inhabitants of the United Kingdom's overseas territories, almost all islands, faced with Brexit.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait writes about the ephemeral nature and historically recent formation of the rings of Saturn.

Centauri Dreams hosts an essay looking at the controversies surrounding the arguments of Avi Loeb around SETI and 'Oumuamua.

D-Brief links to a new analysis of hot Jupiters suggesting that they form close to their stars, suggesting further that they are a separate population from outer-system worlds like our Jupiter and Saturn.

Colby King at the Everyday Sociology Blog takes a look at the sociology of the online world, using the critical work of Zeynep Tufekci as a lens.

L.M. Sacasas at The Frailest Thing makes a great point about the seemingly transparent online world: We might, like a protagonist in a Hawthorne story, confine ourselves falsely that we know everything, so becoming jaded.

JSTOR Daily notes how, in the early 20th century, US Park Rangers were actually quite rough and tumble, an irregular police force.

Language Hat looks at the overlooked modernist fiction of Dorothy Richardson.

Language Log examines the origins of the phrase "Listen up".

The LRB Blog visits a Berlin cemetery to note the annual commemoration there of the lives of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg.

Marginal Revolution considers the proportion of centenarians on Okinawa, and considers if a carbohydrate-heavy diet featuring sweet potatoes is key.Tim Parks at the NYR Daily engages with the idea of a translation being an accomplishment of its own.

Roads and Kingdoms has a fascinating interview with Tanja Fox about the history and development of the Copenhagen enclave of Christiania.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel notes that early returns from New Horizons suggest Ultima Thule is a typical "future comet".

Strange Company shares the story of the haunting of 18th century Gael Donald Bán.

Towleroad shares the account by Nichelle Nichols of how her chance encounter with Martin Luther King helped save Star Trek.

Window on Eurasia notes the different quasi-embassies of different Russian republics in Moscow, and their potential import.

Arnold Zwicky, looking at penguins around the world, notices the CIBC mascot Percy the Penguin.

This Chaka Grier article on NOW Toronto looks at how activists for different endangered languages--Wolastoqey, Yiddish, Garifuna--use music to try to keep them alive.

Hornet Stories takes a look at some gay-themed country music.

This year, 1980s pop star Corey Hart will be inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame. CBC reports.

Sarah MacDonald at Noisey takes a look at the prescience of Britney Spears' 1999 song "E-Mail My Heart".

At Wired, Jason Parham praises the new Troye Sivan single, "Lucky Strike", for its profound curiosity in and empathy for other people.

Charlie Stross at Antipope notes the many problems appearing already with 2019, starting with Brexit.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait examines the mysterious AT2018cow event. What was it?

blogTO notes that the Ontario government seems to be preparing for a new round of amalgamation, this time involving Toronto neighbours.

The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly writes about her strategies for minimizing her personal waste, including buying expensive durables.

D-Brief shares Chang'e-4 photos taken on the far side of the Moon.

Bruce Dorminey notes an innovative design for a steam-powered asteroid hopper.

Karen Sternheimer at the Everyday Sociology Blog writes about verstehen, the process of coming to an understanding of a subject, as demonstrated in the Arlene Stein study Unbound about trans men.

Gizmodo looks at the remarkably complex nascent planetary system of the quarternary star system HD 98800.

Imageo shares a visualization of the terrifyingly rapid spread of the Camp Fire.

JSTOR Daily debunks the myth of Wilson's unconditional support for the Fourteen Points.

Language Hat notes a new study that claims to provide solid grounds for distinguishing dialects from languages.

Language Log looks at what David Bowie had to say about the Internet in 1999, and how he said it.

Christine Gordon Manley writes about her identity as a Newfoundlander.

Marginal Revolution notes the very variable definitions of urbanization in different states of India as well as nationally.

Emily Lakdawalla at the Planetary Society Blog shares a few more images of Ultima Thule.

Drew Rowsome reviews a new Toronto production of Iphegenia and the Furies.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel notes how a fifth dimension might make the instantaneous spore drive of Discovery possible.

Window on Eurasia links to an article examining eight misconceptions of Russians about Belarus.

The reopening of Bellevue House, the old Kingston home of John A. MacDonald, has been delayed by Parks Canada. Global News reports.

MTL Blog shares a video taken by two people who visited each and every one of the nearly 70 stops of the Montréal subway system in just four hours.The mayors of Reynosa in Mexico and McAllen in the United States, sister cities on the Texas frontier, oppose policies and structures that would divide their binational community. VICE reports.

Guardian Cities reports on the difficulties of getting accessible Internet for many in Sao Paulo.

Guardian Cities looks on how Dar es Salaam, the emerging megacity of Tanzania, has developed an affordable and rapid bus system.

Leah Collins at CBC Arts tells the amazing and twisty story behind the ascent of the Hampsterdance from an obscure Geocities page in 1998 to global fame.

Barbara Ellen at the Observer, looking at the collapse of HMV, notes the decline of the old music industry, which was at least capable of rewarding some creators appropriately. How will musicians now earn their living?

Briana Younger at The New Yorker responds to the horrors being exposed in R. Kelly's abuse of women and asks about the moral responsibility of the fans in consuming Kelly's music.

Lady Gaga has apologized for her collaboration with R. Kelly on the 2013 duet "Do What U Want", calling it an ill-thought reaction to her personal traumas of assault and pulling the song from streaming services.

Owen Myers at The Fader wrote a fantastic essay about the meme-worthy video for the Dua Lipa hit "New Rules".

The Conversation notes how New Brunswick, with its economic challenges and its language divide, represents in microcosm the problems of wider Canada.

This Los Angeles Times article notes how Rohingya Hindus see themselves, rightly, as sharing a different fate from their Muslim coethnics.

This New York Times article looks at how the Internet censors of China are trained, by letting them know about the actual history of their country first.

Bloomberg reports how on the Iranian government tries to engage selectively with the social networking platforms, like Instagram and Telegram, used by the outside world.

Bloomberg notes that the concern of Japan that the United Kingdom, Japanese companies' chosen platform for export to the EU, might engage in a hard Brexit is pressing.

JSTOR Daily is a quality source of links that can accumulate quickly.

JSTOR Daily shares ten poems about travel.

JSTOR Daily notes the decidedly mixed environmental legacies of missionaries.

JSTOR Daily explains why, exactly, a landlord in the medieval world might ask for a rose at Christmas time as rent.

JSTOR Daily explores the immersive cyclorama of the 19th century.

JSTOR Daily notes how, with a canny emphasis on the prestige of their drink and their lineages, dealers of champagne were able to build lucrative empires.

JSTOR Daily takes a look at the 17th century German painter of insects Maria Sibylla Merian, now at last gaining recognition.

JSTOR Daily summarizes a paper that examines why the literal image of Nelson Mandela is so popular, is so iconic.

JSTOR Daily notes that, alas, the balance of the evidence suggests alcohol is not good for people.

JSTOR Daily looks at "story papers", the inexpensive 19th century periodicals carrying stories targeted at boys and young men which ended up changing both popular literature and gender identities.

Alexandra Samuel at JSTOR Daily takes a look, after Rachel Giese, at the ways in which the Internet and Internet culture can lead to outbreaks of misogyny.

Anthrodendum reviews the book Fistula Politics, the latest from the field of medical anthropology.

Architectuul takes a look at post-war architecture in Germany, a country where the devastation of the war left clean slates for ambitious new designers and architects.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait looks at newly discovered Kuiper Belt object 2008 VG 18.

Laura Agustín at Border Thinking takes a look at the figure of the migrant sex worker.

Centauri Dreams features an essay by Al Jackson celebrating the Apollo 8 moon mission.

D-Brief notes how physicists manufactured a quark soup in a collider to study the early universe.

Dangerous Minds shares some photos of a young David Bowie.

Angelique Harris at the Everyday Sociology Blog takes a look at what the social sciences have to say about sexuality and dating among millennial Americans.

Gizmodo notes the odd apparent smoothness of Ultima Thule, target of a very close flyby by New Horizons on New Year's Day.

Hornet Stories notes the censorship-challenging art by Slava Mogutin available from the Tom of Finland store.

Imageo shares orbital imagery of the eruption of Anak Krakatau in Indonesia, trigger of a devastating volcanic tsunami.

Nick Stewart at The Island Review writes beautifully about his experience crossing the Irish Sea on a ferry, from Liverpool to Belfast.

Lyman Stone at In A State of Migration shares the story, with photos, of his recent whirlwind trip to Vietnam.

JSTOR Daily considers whether or not fan fiction might be a useful tool to promote student literacy.

Language Hat notes a contentious reconstruction of the sound system of obscure but fascinating Tocharian, an extinct Indo-European language from modern XInjiang.

Dan Nexon at Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the irreversible damage being caused by the Trump Administration to the United States' foreign policy.

Marginal Revolution notes a paper suggesting users of Facebook would need a payment of at least one thousand dollars to abandon Facebook.

Lisa Nandy at the NYR Daily argues that the citizens of the United Kingdom need desperately to engage with Brexit, to take back control, in order to escape catastrophic consequences from ill-thought policies.

Marc Rayman at the Planetary Society Blog celebrates the life and achievements of the Dawn probe.

The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer notes that so many Venezuelans are fleeing their country because food is literally unavailable, what with a collapsing agricultural sector.

The Russian Demographics Blog breaks down polling of nostalgia for the Soviet Union among Russians.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel notes that simply finding oxygen in the atmosphere of an exoplanet is not by itself proof of life.

Ilya Somin at the Volokh Conspiracy reports on how the United States is making progress towards ending exclusionary zoning.

Whatever's John Scalzi shares an interview with the lawyer of Santa Claus.

Window on Eurasia reports on a fascinating paper, examining how some Russian immigrants in Germany use Udmurt as a family language.

Arnold Zwicky takes a look at the lives of two notable members of the Swiss diaspora in Paris' Montmartre.

Slate notes that the example of LiveJournal, a popular social networking site that went under when its owners cracked down on fandom, should concern the owners of Tumblr.

Hornet Stories notes that the crackdown on NSFW work on Tumblr will impact LGBTQ people disproportionately.

Nathalie Graham at the Stranger notes what the crackdown on NSFW content on Tumblr might indicate about the future of the Internet, among other things.

Sean Captain at Fast Company looks at the desperate efforts of archivists to preserve some 700 thousand NSFW Tumblr blogs for posterity.

This Wired article looks at alternatives to Tumblr, like Dreamwidth and Pillowfort. Each is promising but each lacks some of the specific advantages of Tumblr.

My own Tumblr, incidentally, is A Bit More Detail. It will still be online: I still find it useful, and do not find a need to abandon this community as I did LiveJournal.

Anthro{dendum} considers ways to simulate urgency in simulations of climate change.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait considers what could possibly have led to a Mars crater near Biblis Patera, on Tharsis, having such a flat bottom.

Caitlin Kelly at the Broadside Blog gives readers some tips as to what they should see in New York City.

Centauri Dreams notes some of the early returns sent back by the OSIRIS-REx probe from asteroid Bennu.

The Crux notes the limits of genetic determinism in explaining human behaviour, given the huge influence of the environment on the expression of genes and more.

D-Brief suggests that the rapid global dispersion of the domestic chicken, a bird visibly distinct from its wild counterparts, might make an excellent marker of the Anthropocene millions of years hence.

Bruce Dorminey notes that Comet 46 P/Wirtanen is set to come within a bit more than eleven million kilometres of the Earth next week, and that astronomers are ready.

L.M. Sacasas at The Frailest Thing suggests that the Internet, by exposing everything, makes actual innovation difficult.

JSTOR Daily takes a look at the innovative art of early 20th century Expressionist Charlotte Salomon, a person not only groundbreaking with her autobiographical painting series but linked to a murder mystery, too.

Anne Curzan writes at Lingua Franca about what she has learned in six years about blogging there abut language.

Sara Jayyousi writes at the LRB Blog about her experiences over time with a father imprisoned for nearly a decade and a half on false charges of supporting terrorism.

Marginal Revolution shares Tyler Cowen's argument that Macron's main problem is that he lacks new ideas, something to appeal to the masses.

Sylvain Cypel at the NYR Daily argues that Macron, arguably never that popular, is facing a Marie Antoinette moment, the Yellow Jackets filling the place of the sans culottes.

Drew Rowsome rightly laments the extent to which social media, including not just Facebook but even Tumblr, are currently waging a war against any visible sex in any context.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains how, in 2019, astronomers will finally have imaged the event horizon around the black hole Sagittarius A* at the heart of the Milky Way Galaxy.

Window on Eurasia reports on polls which suggest that young Belarusians are decidedly apolitical.

VICE's Motherboard suggests that the crackdown on anything NSFW on Tumblr can be blamed on the expanding power of the Apple Store, one element of its indiscriminate sanitization of the Internet.

Garrett Carr at 1843 Magazine takes a look at Lough Foyle, the northern Irish bay that will become part of a hard border come Brexit.

Giant African snails, Sarah Laskow suggests at Atlas Obscura, have spread so widely in recent centuries thanks to humanity that the presence of their shells might well be a noticeable marker of the Anthropocene.

At Toronto Life, sculptor Gillian Genser tells the heartbreaking story of how she was poisoned by the heavy metals contained in the mussel shells that she used as raw materials for a sculpture.

Evan Gough at Universe Today reports the claim of some archaeologists that, 3700 years ago, the city of Tell el-Hammam was destroyed by a meteor that exploded above it with the force of a large nuclear warhead. Inspiration for Sodom and Gomorrah?

Architectuul interviews Vladimir Kulić, curator of the MoMA exhibition Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948–1980, about the history of innovative architecture in Yugoslavia.

The Crux takes a look at the long search for hidden planets in the solar system, starting with Neptune and continuing to Tyche.

D-Brief notes that ISRO, the space agency of India, is planning on launching a mission to Venus, and is soliciting outside contributions.

Drew Ex Machina's Andrew LePage writes about his efforts to photograph, from space, clouds over California's Mount Whitney.

Earther notes that geoengineering is being considered as one strategy to help save the coral reefs.

Gizmodo takes a look at the limits, legal and otherwise, facing the Internet Archive in its preservation of humanity's online history.

JSTOR Daily explains why the Loch Ness monster has the scientific binominal Nessiteras rhombopteryx.
Language Hat links to "The Poor Man of Nippur", a short film by Cambridge academic Martin Worthington that may be the first film in the Babylonian language.

The LRB Blog notes the conflict between West Bank settlers and Airbnb. Am I churlish to wish that neither side wins?

Marginal Revolution links to a paper noting how quickly, after Poland regained its independence, human capital differences between the different parts of the once-divided country faded.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel takes a look at what it takes, in terms of element abundance and galactic structure, for life-bearing planets to form in the early universe, and when they can form.

Ontario PCs have shamefully voted in favour of no longer recognizing gender identity. If this party, forming a government that has already invoked the notwithstanding clause, tries anything else against transgender people, let the fight start. Global News reports.

The essay of Peter Knegt at CBC Arts highlighting problems of queer representation in Bohemian Rhapsody needs to be read. Why is so much of the queer content fictionally represented as negative?

Peter Knegt at CBC Arts points out that Scott Thompson deserves to be recognized as a Canadian treasure.

This Jon Shadel essay at them exploring how the Internet opened up new channels for communication and self-identification as a queer person speaks deeply to me.

The Houston Chronicle explores Check Please, Ngozi Ukazu's fantastic queer hockey webcomic.

David Price at {anthro}dendum considers, going through archival material from the 1950s, the number of radical anthropologists in the US as yet little known or unknown who were marginalized by the Red Scare.

Centauri Dreams ruminates on a paper examining 'Oumuamua that considers radiation pressure as a factor in its speed. Might it work as--indeed, be?--a lightsail?

D-Brief notes the various reasons why the Chinese proposal for an artificial moon of sorts, to illuminate cities at night, would not work very well at all.

The Dragon's Tales touches on the perhaps hypocritical anger of Russia at the United States' departure from the INF treaty.

Far Outliers notes the sharp divides among Nazi prisoners of war in a camp in Texas, notably between pro- and anti-Nazi prisoners.

L.M. Sacasas at The Frailest Thing revisits the original sin of the Internet culture, its imagining of a split between an individual's virtual life and the remainder of their life.

The Island Review welcomes, and interviews, its new editor C.C. O'Hanlon.

JSTOR Daily explores the reasons for considering climate change to be a national security issue.
Language Hat is enthused by the recent publication of a new dictionary of the extinct Anatolian languages of the Indo-European family.

Language Log examines the existence of a distinctive, even mocked, southern French accent spoken in and around (among other cities) Toulouse.

Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the rise of fascism in Brazil with Bolsonaro.

Roger Shuy at Lingua Franca writes about the power of correspondence, of written letters, to help language learners. (I concur.)

At the LRB Blog, Jeremy Bernstein writes about anti-Semitism in the United States, in the 1930s and now.

The NYR Daily examines the life of writer, and long-time exile from her native Portugal, Maria Gabriela Llansol.

Haley Gray at Roads and Kingdoms reports on the life and work of Mark Maryboy, a Navajo land rights activist in Utah.

Window on Eurasia looks at the Russian urban myth of blonde Baltic snipers from the Baltic States who had been enlisted into wars against Russia like that of Chechnya in the 1990s.

Arnold Zwicky takes a look at the classic red phone booths of the United Kingdom, now almost all removed from the streets of the country and sent to a graveyard in a part of rural Yorkshire that has other claims to fame.

D-Brief notes that CRISPR is being used to edit the genes of pigs, the better to protect them against disease.

L.M. Sacasas at The Frailest Thing argues that silence on social networks is often not an option, that membership might compel one to speak. I wonder: That was not my experience with E-mail lists.

Joe. My. God. notes that social network Gab, favoured by the alt-right, disclaims any responsibility for giving the synagogue shooter in Pittsburgh a platform.

JSTOR Daily notes the massive, unprecedented, and environmentally disruptive growth of great mats of sargassum seaweed in the Caribbean.

Language Hat notes the poster's problems grappling with Doeteyevsky's complex novel The Devils, a messy novel product of messy times.

Language Log notes the use of pinyin on Wikipedia to annotate Chinese words.

Marginal Revolution links to a paper noting that data mining is not all-powerful if one is only mining noise.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel notes that, finally, we are making enough antimatter to be able to figure out whether antimatter is governed by gravity or antigravity.

At the Volokh Conspiracy, Ilya Somin talks about how he was threatened on Facebook by mail bomber Cesar Sayoc.

Window on Eurasia notes the 1947 deportation of more than a hundred thousand Ukrainians from the west of their country to Siberia and Kazakhstan.

Arnold Zwicky ruminates about late October holidays and their food, Hallowe'en not being the only one.

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[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: Torontoist, Dundas West/Bloor, McArthur, schools, TTC

[NEWS] Five Internet links: Geocities, Livejournal, Tumblr, Quora, predictions

[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

[BLOG] Some Monday links

[ISL] Five islands links: #PEI, Tonga, Greenland, Montréal, Brexit

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

[MUSIC] Five music links: minority languages, country music, Corey Hart, Britney Spears, Troye Sivan

[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Kingston, Montréal, Reynosa and McAllen, Sao Paulo, Dar es Salaam

[MUSIC] Five music links: Hampsterdance, HMV and music, R. Kelly, Lady Gaga,

[NEWS] Five divides: New Brunswick, Rohingya Hindus, Chinese censors, Iranian internet, Brexit

[NEWS] Ten JSTOR Daily links (@jstor_daily)

[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

[NEWS] Six links about the decline of Tumblr (#tumblr)

[BLOG] Some Thursday links

[NEWS] Five links: Tumblr, Lough Foyle, giant snails, Gillian Genser, Tell el-Hammam

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