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Architectuul looks at the Portuguese architectural cooperative Ateliermob, here.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait looks at how white dwarf WD J091405.30+191412.25 is literally vapourizing a planet in close orbit.

Caitlin Kelly at the Broadside Blog explains
Centauri Dreams looks at the slowing of the solar wind far from the Sun.

John Holbo at Crooked Timber considers the gap between ideals and actuals in the context of conspiracies and politics.

The Dragon's Tales reports on how the ESA is trying to solve a problem with the parachutes of the ExoMars probe.

Far Outliers reports on what Harry Truman thought about politicians.

Gizmodo reports on a new method for identifying potential Earth-like worlds.

io9 pays tribute to legendary writer, of Star Trek and much else, D.C. Fontana.

The Island Review reports on the football team of the Chagos Islands.

Joe. My. God. reports that gay Olympian Gus Kenworthy will compete for the United Kingdom in 2020.

JSTOR Daily looks at how early English imperialists saw America and empire through the lens of Ireland.

Paul Campos at Lawyers, Guns and Money does not like Pete Buttigieg.

The LRB Blog looks at the London Bridge terrorist attack.

The Map Room Blog shares a map of Prince William Sound, in Alaska, that is already out of date because of global warming.

Marginal Revolution questions if Cuba, in the Philippines, is the most typical city in the world.

The NYR Daily looks at gun violence among Arab Israelis.

The Planetary Society Blog considers what needs to be researched next on Mars.

Roads and Kingdoms tells the story of Sister Gracy, a Salesian nun at work in South Sudan.

The Russian Demographics Blog shares a paper noting continued population growth expected in much of Europe, and the impact of this growth on the environment.

Strange Maps shares a map of fried chicken restaurants in London.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains why a 70 solar mass black hole is not unexpected.

John Scalzi at Whatever gives his further thoughts on the Pixel 4.

Window on Eurasia notes that, last year, 37 thousand Russians died of HIV/AIDS.

Arnold Zwicky starts from a consideration of the 1948 film Kind Hearts and Coronets.

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.

This r/mapporn map shows the scale of the collapse of Irish as a spoken language across most of Ireland. Was this avoidable?

This r/imaginarymaps map shows a Canada where the 1837 rebellions were successful, with an autonomous Upper Canada and a Lower Canada with a Patriote state. Doable?

This r/imaginarymaps map depicts a common alternate history trope, that of an independent but culturally Russian Alaska. What would it take for this to happen?

This r/imaginarymaps map depicts a world where Eurasia, from Germany to Korea, was dominated by a successfully industrializing Russian Empire. Was this common fear of the belle époque actually achievable?

This r/mapporn map shows the different proposals for different territorial configurations of the Canadian Prairies. (I like the ones with north-south divisions.)

Was a single South Africa covering most of British Southern Africa with relatively liberal racial policies, as Jan Smuts wanted, actually achievable? r/imaginarymaps hosts the map.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait notes a study suggesting the Milky Way Galaxy took many of its current satellite galaxies from another, smaller one.

The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly talks of the importance of having dreams.

Centauri Dreams shares a study explaining how the debris polluting the atmospheres of white dwarfs reveals much about exoplanet chemistry.

D-Brief notes that the intense radiation of Jupiter would not destroy potential traces of subsurface life on the surface of Europa.

Dangerous Minds looks at the strange musical career of Vader Abraham, fan of the Smurfs and of the Weepuls.

Aneesa Bodiat at JSTOR Daily writes about how the early Muslim woman of Haajar inspires her as a Muslim.

Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns and Money notes how an influx of American guns destabilizes Mexico.

The LRB Blog looks at the American abandonment of the Kurds of Syria.

Marginal Revolution notes how many mass protests are driven by consumer complaints.

The NYR Daily has an interview with EU chief Brexit negotiator Guy Verhofstadt, on the future of sovereignty.

Strange Company looks at the Dead Pig War between the US and the UK on San Juan Island in 1859.

Towleroad features the defense of Frank Ocean of his PrEP+ club night and the release of his new music.

Understanding Society looks at the sociology of norms.

Window on Eurasia suggests Russia and Ukraine each have an interest in the Donbass being a frozen conflict.

Arnold Zwicky looks at the weird masculinity of the pink jock.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait notes how a photo of the Large Magellanic Cloud makes him recognize it as an irregular spiral, not a blob.

Centauri Dreams celebrates the life of cosmonaut Alexei Leonov.

John Quiggin at Crooked Timber takes issue with one particular claim about the benefits of war and empire.

The Crux looks at fatal familial insomnia, a genetic disease that kills through inflicting sleeplessness on its victims.

D-Brief looks at suggestions that magnetars are formed by the collisions of stars.

Dangerous Minds introduces readers to the fantasy art of Arthur Rackham.

Cody Delistraty considers some evidence suggesting that plants have a particular kind of intelligence.

The Dragon's Tales notes the expansion by Russia of its airbase in Hneymim, Syria.

Karen Sternheimer writes at the Everyday Sociology Blog about the critical and changing position of libraries as public spaces in our cities.

Gizmodo looks at one marvelous way scientists have found to cheat quantum mechanics.

Information is Beautiful outlines a sensible proposal to state to cultivate seaweed a as source of food and fuel.

io9 notes that, in the exciting new X-Men relaunch, immortal Moira MacTaggart is getting her own solo book.

JSTOR Daily notes how the now-defunct Thomas Cook travel agency played a role in supporting British imperialism, back in the day.

Language Log notes that the Oxford English Dictionary is citing the blog on the use of "their" as a singular.

Scott Lemieux at Lawyers, Guns and Money considers the grounds for impeaching Donald Trump.

The LRB Blog looks at the politics of Mozambique at the country approaches dangerous times.

Sean Marshall notes the southern Ontario roads that run to Paris and to London.

Neuroskeptic notes a problematic scientific study that tried to use rabbits to study the female human orgasm.

Steve Baker at The Numerati looks at a new book on journalism by veteran Peter Copeland.

The NYR Daily makes the point that depending on biomass as a green energy solution is foolish.

The Planetary Science Blog notes a 1983 letter by then-president Carl Sagan calling for a NASA mission to Saturn and Titan.

Roads and Kingdoms interviews photojournalist Eduardo Leal on his home city of Porto, particularly as transformed by tourism.

Drew Rowsome notes the book Dreamland, an examination of the early amusement park.

The Russian Demographics Blog shares a paper considering, in broad detail, how the consequence of population aging could be mitigated in the labour market of the European Union.

Strange Company reports on a bizarre poltergeist in a British garden shed.

Window on Eurasia notes the new strength of a civic national identity in Kazakhstan, based on extensive polling.

Arnold Zwicky, surely as qualified a linguist as any, examines current verb of the American moment, "depose".

Maclean's reports on how, a century after Shoal Lake 40 First Nation was made an island to provide drinking water for Winnipeg, it finally was connected to the mainland by a road.

CityLab reports on how the pressures of the tourist season make it difficult for many permanent residents of Martha's Vineyard to maintain homes.

Fogo Island, Newfoundland, recently celebrated its first Pride Walk. CBC reports.

Yvette D'Entremont writes at the Toronto Star about how the diaspora of the Newfoundland fishing island of Ramea have gathered together for regular reunions.

J.M. Opal writes at The Conversation about the origins of white Anglo-American racism in 17th century Barbados.

JSTOR Daily looks at the remarkable glasswork of the Blaschka Invertebrate Collection.

JSTOR Daily looks at the political radicalism of inventor Joseph Priestley.

JSTOR Daily looks at how Midwesterners responded to the 1930s craze of bank robberies with their own improvised systems in the face of police failures.

JSTOR Daily explains why Hubert Humphrey, despite his conventional strengths, was not going to be a winning Democratic candidate for President.

Austin Allen writes at JSTOR Daily about the complicated aesthetic and political radicalism of W.H. Auden, George Orwell, and James Baldwin.

CBC Montreal reports on how a downsizing Montréal-area convent recently put on a very large yard sale.

Will the staged construction of a tramway in Québec City lead to the partial completion of that project? CBC examines the issue.

The New Brunswick city of Saint John recently celebrated its Loyalist heritage. Global News reports.

The new community garden in Moncton sounds lovely. Global News reports.

CityLab notes the sad precedent of the privatization of an old Carnegie Library in Washington D.C. into an Apple Store.

CityLab considers if cycling can make inroads in pro-car Dallas.

Open Democracy examines the controversy surrounding the contested construction of an Orthodox church in Yekaterinburg.

A statue of Queen Victoria has been vandalized in Montréal, the act claimed by an anti-colonialist coalition. Global News reports.

Guardian Cities profiled an Instagram account, thedoorsofnyc, concentrating on the unique doors of New York City.

Billionaire urbanism is identified by this article at The Stranger as the downfall of the waterfront of Seattle.

CityLab notes that the government of Amsterdam is now requiring owners of new homes to live in their property, limiting the ability to rent them out.

The Atlantic notes the criticisms of many urbanists in Istanbul that restorations of the city's ancient heritage are actually destroying them, at least as survivals from the past.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait looks at the newly-named Neptune moon of Hippocamp, and how it came about as product of a massive collision with the larger moon of Proteus.

Centauri Dreams also reports on the discovery of the Neptune moon of Hippocamp.

Chris Bertram at Crooked Timber notes how the attempt to revoke the citizenship of Shamima Begum sets a terribly dangerous precedent for the United Kingdom.

D-Brief notes new evidence suggesting the role of the Deccan Traps volcanic eruptions in triggering the Cretaceous extinction event, alongside the Chixculub asteroid impact.

Far Outliers notes the problems of Lawrence of Arabia with Indian soldiers and with Turks.

L.M. Sacasas at The Frailest Thing takes issue with the state of philosophical contemplation about technology, at least in part a structural consequence of society.

Hornet Stories shares this feature examining the future of gay porn, in an environment where amateur porn undermines the existing studios.

JSTOR Daily considers the spotty history of casting African-American dancers in ballet.

Language Hat suggests that the Académie française will soon accept for French feminized nouns of nouns links to professionals ("écrivaine" for a female writer, for instance).

The LRB Blog considers the implications of the stripping of citizenship from Shamima Begum. Who is next? How badly is citizenship weakened in the United Kingdom?

Marginal Revolution notes the upset of Haiti over its banning by Expedia.

The NYR Daily notes the tension in Turkey between the country's liberal laws on divorce and marriage and rising Islamization.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel looks at the moment, in the history of the universe, when dark energy became the dominant factors in the universe's evolution.

Towleroad remembers Roy Cohn, the lawyer who was the collaborator of Trump up to the moment of Cohn's death from AIDS.

Understanding Society's Daniel Little takes a look at Marx's theories of how governments worked.

Window on Eurasia looks at the existential pressures facing many minority languages in Russia.

Is the culture of the Canadian navy that much of an obstacle to the retention of personnel? Global News reports.

That Chemi Lhamo, a Tibetan-Canadian student who was elected student president of the University of Toronto's Scarborough campus, has come under attacks coordinated through Chinese social media on account of her heritage is disturbing. CBC reports.

A successful Nova Scotia chocolatier founded by Syrian refugees is set to take on new refugee hires. The National Post reports.

Pankaj Mishra writing at The New York Times is, perhaps unkind but not wrong, in suggesting that the bad habits of Britain's imperial elites are finally rebounding on Britain in this mismanaged Brexit.

Andrew Gallagher writes at Slugger O'Toole about the impossibility of Ireland ever having good boundaries through any imaginable partition.

Bad Astronomy's Phil Plait considers the possibility that the remarkably low-density 'Oumuamua might be a cosmic snowflake.

The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly writes about the challenges of free-lance writing, including clients who disappear before they pay their writers for their work.

Centauri Dreams notes that observations of cosmic collisions by gravitational wave astronomy are becoming numerous enough to determine basic features of the universe like Hubble's constant.

D-Brief notes that the Hayabusa2 probe is set to start mining samples from asteroid Ryugu.

Dangerous Minds remembers radical priest and protester Philip Berrigan.

At the Everyday Sociology Blog, Irina Seceleanu explains why state defunding of public education in the United States is making things worse for students.

Far Outliers notes how many of the communities in South Asia that saw soldiers go off to fight for the British Empire opposed this imperial war.

JSTOR Daily looks at the decidedly NSFW love letters of James Joyce to Nora Barnacle. Wasn't Kate Bush inspired by them?

Scott Lemieux at Lawyers, Guns and Money notes how the failure of the California high-speed rail route reveals many underlying problems with funding for infrastructure programs in the United States.

Marginal Revolution notes the creepy intrusiveness of a new app in China encouraging people to study up on Xi Jinping thought.

The Planetary Society Blog looks at what is to be expected come the launch of the Beresheet Moon lander by Israeli group SpaceIL.

Daniel Little at Understanding Society considers the philosophical nature of the Xerox Corporation.

Window on Eurasia notes that the Russian Orthodox Church seems not to be allowing the mass return of its priests who lost congregations to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church to Russia.

Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell considers the astute ways in which El Chapo is shown to have run his business networks.

Arnold Zwicky looks at two recent British films centering on displays of same-sex male attraction, The Pass and God's Own Country.

Colby King writes at the Everyday Sociology Blog about furnace, kiln, and oven operators as recorded in the American Community Survey. What experiences do they have in common, and which separate them?

Far Outliers reports on the work of the Indian Labourer Corps on the Western Front, collecting and recycling raw materials from the front.

L.M. Sacasas at The Frailest Thing makes the case that the seeming neutrality of modern digital technologies are dissolving the established political order.

Joe. My. God. notes a report from Andrew McCabe suggesting that Trump did not believe his own intelligence services' reports about the range of North Korean missiles, instead believing Putin.

JSTOR Daily notes how the interracial marriages of serving members of the US military led to the liberalization of immigration law in the United States in the 1960s.

Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns and Money reports on the connections of the police in Portland, Oregon, to the alt-right.

Alex Tabarrok at Marginal Revolution shares a report of the discovery of English-speaking unicorns in South America that actually reveals the remarkable language skills of a new AI. Fake news, indeed.

The NYR Daily shares a short story by Panashe Chigumadzi, "You Can't Eat Beauty".

Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw welcomes a new fluidity in Australian politics that makes the elections debatable.

Drew Rowsome looks at the horror fiction of Justin Cronin.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel shares some of the key historical images of Pluto, from its discovery to the present.

Window on Eurasia takes a look at the only church of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church operating in Russia, in the Moscow area city of Noginsk.

Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell makes the point that counting on opinion pieces in journalism as a source of unbiased information is a categorical mistake.

Arnold Zwicky looks back, on President's Day at Berkeley, at his experiences and those of others around him at that university and in its community.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait looks at the evidence for the massive collision that left exoplanet Kepler 107c an astoundingly dense body.

The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly tells her readers the secrets of the success of her relationship with her husband, Jose.

Centauri Dreams notes what the New Horizons probe has found out, of Ultima Thule and of Pluto, by looking back.

The Crux shares the obituaries of scientists from NASA for the Opportunity rover.

D-Brief reports that NASA has declared the Opportunity rover's mission officially complete.

Dead Things introduces its readers to Mnyamawamtuka, a titanosaur from Tanzania a hundred million years ago.

Drew Ex Machina shares a stunning photo of Tropical Cyclone Gita, taken from the ISS in 2018.

Far Outliers notes how the Indian Army helped save the British army's positions from collapse in the fall of 1914.

Joe. My. God. notes a Christian group in the United States trying to encourage a boycott of supposedly leftist candy manufacturers like Hershey's.

JSTOR Daily looks at why covenant marriage failed to become popular.

Scott Lemieux at Lawyers, Guns and Money explains the hatred for new Congressperson Ilham Omar.

The Planetary Society Blog links to ten interesting podcasts relating to exploration, of Earth and of space.

Drew Rowsome interviews Tobias Herzberg about Feygele, his show in the Rhubarb festival at Buddies in Bad Times.

Frank Jacobs at Strange Maps looks at the evidence, presented by (among others) Geneviève von Petzinger, suggesting that forty thousand years ago cave artists around the world may have shared a common language of symbols.

Window on Eurasia suggests that the policies of Putin are contributing to a growing sense of nationalism in Belarus.

The Crux notes the discovery of a second impact crater in Greenland, hidden under the ice.

D-Brief notes new evidence that ancient Celts did, in fact, decapitate their enemies and preserve their heads.

Far Outliers notes how Pakhtun soldier Ayub Khan, in 1914-1915, engaged in some cunning espionage for the British Empire on the Western Front.

Kashmir Hill at Gizmodo notes how cutting out the big five tech giants for one week--Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft--made it almost impossible for her to carry on her life.

Hornet Stories notes that, unsurprisingly, LGBTQ couples are much more likely to have met online that their heterosexual counterparts.

At In Media Res, Russell Arben Fox imagines Elizabeth Warren giving a speech that touches sensitively and intelligently on her former beliefs in her Cherokee ancestry.

Mónica Belevan at the Island Review writes, directly and allegorically, about the Galapagos Islands and her family and Darwin.

JSTOR Daily looks at the economics of the romance novel.

Language Hat notes the Mandombe script creating by the Kimbanguist movement in Congo.

Harry Stopes at the LRB Blog notes the problem with Greater Manchester Police making homeless people a subject of concern.

Ferguson activists, the NYR Daily notes, are being worn down by their protests.

Roads and Kingdoms lists some things visitors to the Uzbekistan capital of Tashkent should keep in mind.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel makes a case for supersymmetry being a failed prediction.

Towleroad notes the near-complete exclusion of LGBTQ subjects and themes from schools ordered by Brazil's president Jair Bolsonaro.

Window on Eurasia notes a somewhat alarmist take on Central Asian immigrant neighbourhoods in Moscow.

Arnold Zwicky takes a look at the Kurds, their history, and his complicated sympathy for their concerns.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait notes the good news: The Andromeda Galaxy will collide with the Milky Way in 4.5 billion years, not 3.9 billion!

The Dragon's Tales notes that a new Chinese ground station built in Argentina has not made the promised outreach to locals, with no visitors' centre and rumours aplenty.

Karen Sternheimer at the Everyday Sociology Blog explains the importance of doing literature reviews.

Far Outliers notes the Pakhtuns, a Muslim ethnicity of the British Raj in what is now Pakistan noteworthy for being a major source of recruits in the Indian Army.

L.M. Sacasas at The Frailest Thing notes Iris Murdoch, particularly her emphasis on learning as a process of engaging with something greater on its terms.

Gizmodo reports on how space sciences appreciate the work done by the noble rover Opportunity on Mars.

JSTOR Daily looks at how early 20th century African-American artists have represented Haiti in the works.

Language Hat takes note of some of the mechanisms by which linguistics can neglect the study of indigenous languages.

Language Log takes a look at the Latin motto of the University of Pennsylvania, a source still of unintentional humour.

Marginal Revolution takes a look at the high levels of dysfunction in Nigeria, from fighting between herders and farmers to the incapacity of the national government.

The NYR Daily takes a look at the concept of internal exile, starting with Russia and spiraling out into the wider world.

Peter Rukavina shares a photo of a payphone that is one of the few remaining used artifacts of old Island Tel.

The Russian Demographics Blog links to a paper considering the demographic peculiarities of the societies of the semi-periphery as contrasted to those of the core.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel notes</> the surprisingly large amount of information astronomers will be able to extract from the first image of an Earth-like exoplanet.

Window on Eurasia notes that North Caucasians in Russia no longer stand out as having higher-than-average birth rates in Russia.

Architectuul takes a look at a new exhibition exploring women architects in Bauhaus.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait shares a photo of Chang'e-4 taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Centauri Dreams notes the power of perspective, demonstrated by photos taken in space far from the Earth.

Far Outliers notes the role of the Indian army, during the Raj, in engaging and mobilizing peasants while allowing recruits to maintain village traditions.

Joe. My. God. notes a new study from the Netherlands suggesting the children of same-sex parents do better in school than children of opposite-sex parents.

Scott Lemieux at Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the astonishing plagiarism and sloppy writing of former NYT editor Jill Abramson.

Michael Hofman at the LRB Blog takes a look at the mindset producing the Brexit catastrophe.

Marginal Revolution takes a look at the decline of the wealth tax in recent decades in high-income countries. Apparently the revenues collected were often not substantial enough.

The Planetary Society Blog shares missions updates from Chang'e-4 on the Moon.

Drew Rowsome reviews the Cirque Éloize show Hotel.

Window on Eurasia notes one call for Tatarstan, and Tatar nationalists, to abandon a territorial model of identity focused on the republic, seeing as how so many Tatars live outside of Tatarstan.

Arnold Zwicky takes a look at the play in language involved in a recent Bizarro comic.

Architectuul looks at some examples of endangered architecture in the world, in London and Pristina and elsewhere.

Bad Astronomy's Phil Plait examines a bizarre feature on the Moon's Lacus Felicitatus.

The Big Picture shares photos exploring the experience of one American, Marie Cajuste, navigating the health care system as she sought cancer treatment.

Centauri Dreams looks at a new proposal for an interstellar craft making use of neutral particle beam-driven sails.

Ingrid Robeyns at Crooked Timber writes about the question of what individual responsibility people today should take for carbon emissions.

The Crux takes a look at what the earliest (surviving) texts say about the invention of writing.

D-Brief notes an interesting proposal to re-use Christmas trees after they are tossed out.

The Dragon's Tales notes that India has approved funding for crewed spaceflight in 2022, in the Gaganyaan program.

Andrew LePage at Drew Ex Machina takes a look at the Apollo 8 mission.

Far Outliers looks at the experiences of British consuls in isolated Kashgar, in what is now Xinjiang.

L.M. Sacasas at The Frailest Thing argues that it can take time to properly see things, that speed can undermine understanding.

JSTOR Daily notes how people with depression use language, opting to use absolute words more often than the norm.

Lawyers, Guns and Money notes how the Bolsonario government in Brazil has set to attacking indigenous people.

Marginal Revolution links to a paper arguing that Greek life in the colleges of the United States, the fraternity system, has a negative impact on the grades of participants.

George Hutchinson writes at the NYR Daily about how race, of subjects and of the other, complicates readings of Louisiana-born author Jean Toomey and his novel Cane, about life on sugar cane plantations in that state.

Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw reflects on his Christmas reading, including a new history of Scandinavia in the Viking age told from their perspective.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel considers the Milky Way Galaxy in its formative years. What did it look like?

Strange Company highlights its top 10 posts over the past year.

Window on Eurasia wonders at reports the Uniate Catholics of Ukraine are seeking a closer alliance with the new Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

Arnold Zwicky reports on the nearly iconic and ubiquitous phalluses of Bhutan, as revealed by a trip by Anthony Bourdain.

JSTOR Daily notes the unorthodox and generally unacknowledged truce struck between Nantucket Island and the British Empire in 1814, during the War of 1812.

A visit by Anthony Bourdain had lasting effects on the culinary scene on Newfoundland. Global News reports.

The Island Review reports on the different plans of the different islands of Scotland to commemorate the end of the First World War.

Michael Erard at The Atlantic writes about the remarkable South Goulburn Island, an island off the coast of Australia where speakers of nine different languages co-exist in a shared passive multilingualism.

Richard Longley wrote at NOW Toronto about the challenges faced by the Toronto Islands in the era of climate change and instability.

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[PHOTO] Towards the Earlscourt war memorial, Prospect Cemetery
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[AH] Six #alternatehistory maps from Reddit: Irish, Canada, Alaska, Russia, Prairies, South Africa
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