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NOW Toronto looks at the Pickering nuclear plant and its role in providing fuel for space travel.

In some places like California, traffic is so bad that airlines actually play a role for high-end commuters. CBC reports.

Goldfish released into the wild are a major issue for the environment in Québec, too. CTV News reports.

China's investments in Jamaica have good sides and bad sides. CBC reports.

A potato museum in Peru might help solve world hunger. The Guardian reports.

Is the Alberta-Saskatchewan alliance going to be a lasting one? Maclean's considers.

Is the fossil fuel industry collapsing? The Tyee makes the case.

Should Japan and Europe co-finance a EUrasia trade initiative to rival China's? Bloomberg argues.

Should websites receive protection as historically significant? VICE reports.

Food tourism in the Maritimes is a very good idea. Global News reports.

Atlantic Canada lobster exports to China thrive as New England gets hit by the trade war. CBC reports.

The Bloc Québécois experienced its revival by drawing on the same demographics as the provincial CAQ. Maclean's reports.

Population density is a factor that, in Canada, determines political issues, splitting urban and rural voters. The National Observer observes.

US border policies aimed against migration from Mexico have been harming businesses on the border with Canada. The National Post reports.

The warming of the ocean is changing the relationship of coastal communities with their seas. The Conversation looks.

Archival research in the digital age differs from what occurred in previous eras. The Conversation explains.

The Persian-language Wikipedia is an actively contested space. Open Democracy reports.

Vox notes how the US labour shortage has been driven partly by workers quitting the labour force, here.

Laurie Penny at WIRED has a stirring essay about hope, about the belief in some sort of future.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait reports suggestions the bizarre happenings at Boyajian's Star could be explained by an evaporating exomoon.

Centauri Dreams looks at how the crowdsourced evScope telescope is being used to support the Lucy mission to the Jupiter Trojans.

The Crux explains the phenomenon of misophobia.

D-Brief shares suggestions that an asteroid collision a half-billion years ago released clouds of dust that, reaching Earth, triggered the mid-Ordovician ice age.

Dangerous Minds shares video of a perhaps underwhelming meeting of William Burroughs with Francis Bacon.

io9 makes the case for more near-future space exploration movies like Ad Astra.

Joe. My. God. notes a Trump retweeting of the lie that Ilham Omar celebrated on 9/11.

JSTOR Daily notes how fire could destroy the stressed rainforest of the Amazon.

Scott Lemieux at Lawyers, Guns and Money notes how few judges in the US have been impeached.

The LRB Blog looks at how the already tenuous position of Haitians in the Bahamas has been worsened by Dorian.

The Map Room Blog looks at the importance of the integrity of official maps in the era of Trump.

Marginal Revolution looks at the political importance of marriage ceremonies in Lebanon and Gaza.

Drew Rowsome interviews the Zakar Twins on the occasion of their new play Pray the Gay Away, playing in Toronto in October.

The Russian Demographic Blog shares statistics on birthrates in the different provinces of the Russian Empire circa 1906.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel reports on the first experiment done on the photoelectric effect, revealing quantum mechanics.

Window on Eurasia looks at growing anti-Chinese sentiments in Central Asia.

Arnold Zwicky looks at "The Hurtful Dog", a Cyanide and Happiness cartoon.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait notes how variable gravity is on irregular asteroid Bennu.

Bruce Dorminey reports on how the European Southern Observatory has charted the Magellanic Clouds in unprecedented detail.

The Dragon's Tales shares a collection of links looking at the Precambrian Earth.

Andrew LePage at Drew Ex Machina reports on the late 1950s race to send probes to the Moon.

Gizmodo shares some stunning astronomy photos.

JSTOR Daily reports on the saltwater roads, the routes that slaves in Florida used to escape to the free Bahamas.

Language Log looks at some examples of bad English from Japan. How did they come about?

Paul Campos at Lawyers, Guns and Money rejects the idea of honouring people like Condoleezza Rice.

Marginal Revolution considers the idea of free will in light of neurology.

Corey S Powell at Out There interviews James Lovelock on his new book Novacene, in which Lovelock imagines the future world and Gaia taken over by AI.

Window on Eurasia notes the water shortages faced by downstream countries in Central Asia.

Dangerous Minds shares vintage demo recordings from Lee Hazlewood, here.

NOW Toronto looks at the influence of the Massive Attack album Mezzanine on the Toronto music scene, here.

NOW Toronto reviews the new Lana del Rey album, Norman Fucking Rockwell.

NOW Toronto looks at the One Love Festival, expanding the connections of the Toronto scene to Caribbean music.

Towleroad shares a lyric video for the new Pet Shop Boys single "Dreamland", with Olly Alexander of Years and Years.

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.

Ingrid Robeyns at Crooked Timber takes us from her son's accidental cut to the electronic music of Røbic.

D-Brief explains what the exceptional unexpected brightness of the first galaxies reveals about the universe.

Far Outliers looks at how President Grant tried to deal with the Ku Klux Klan.

JSTOR Daily looks at the surprising influence of the Turkish harem on the fashion, at least, of Western women.

This Kotaku essay arguing that no one should be sitting on the Iron Throne makes even better sense to me now.

Language Hat looks at the particular forms of French spoken by the famously Francophile Russian elites of the 19th century.

Scott Lemieux at Lawyers, Guns and Money notes how teaching people to code did not save the residents of an Appalachia community.

Marginal Revolution notes how, in the early 19th century, the young United States trading extensively with the Caribbean, even with independent Haiti.

At the NYR Daily, Colm Tóibín looks at the paintings of Pat Steir.

Peter Rukavina writes about how he has been inspired by the deaths of the Underhays to become more active in local politics.

Daniel Little at Understanding Society shares his research goals from 1976.

Window on Eurasia notes the conflicts between the Russian Orthodox Church and some Russian nationalists over the latter's praise of Stalin.

Arnold Zwicky looks at dragons in history, queer and otherwise.

The Inter Press Service reports on efforts to keep the fisheries of St. Vincent active, despite climate change.

This Guardian report on the sheer determination of the librarians of the Orkneys to service their community, even in the face of giant waves, is inspiring.

I am decidedly impressed by the scope of the Hong Kong plan to build a vast new artificial island. The Guardian reports.

This Inter Press Service report about how the stigma of leprosy in Kiribati prevents treatment is sad, and recounts a familiar phenomenon.

That Behrouz Boochani was able to write an award-winning book on Whatsapp while imprisoned in the Australian camp on Manus island is an inspiring story that should never have been. CBC's As It Happens reports.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait shows four different images of nearby stellar nursery NGC 1333.

Centauri Dreams looks at the hot Saturn TOI-197, and the way it was detected.

D-Brief notes how galaxy NGC-1052 DF2 has been confirmed as the second galaxy apparently lacking in dark matter.

Gizmodo notes new confirmation, from an orbiting probe, that Curiosity detected methane emanating from Mars back in 2013.

Hornet Stories tries to correct some misconceptions about the Burning Man festival.

The Island Review links to a New York Times profile of post-Maria Puerto Rico.

Joe. My. God. notes that Martin Shkreli has been tossed into solitary confinement.

JSTOR Daily notes the work of psychologists in the 1930s US who profiled individuals who did not fit the gender binary. Would these people have identified themselves as trans or non-binary now?

The LRB Blog notes the fondness of Jacob Rees-Mogg for extreme-right German politicians from the AfD.

Language Log shares a written ad in Cantonese from Hong Kong.

Lawyers, Guns and Money compares China now to the Untied States of the past, and finds interesting correspondences.

Marginal Revolution notes the deep and significant commitment of China under Mao to providing foreign aid.

The NYR Daily looks at the complex, once-overlooked, life and career of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, writer of "The Yellow Wallpaper".

Out There notes that, while dark matter is certainly real, "dark matter" is a poor name for this mysterious substance.

Jason Davis at the Planetary Society Blog considers the challenges to be faced by Hayabusa 2 when it fires a sampling probe into asteroid Ryugu.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel considers how into the universe a spaceship could travel if it accelerated consistently at one gravity.

Strange Company examines the life and adventures of Jeffrey Hudson, a royal dwarf in 17th century England.

Daniel Little at Understanding Society builds on the work of V.K. Ramachandran in considering the ethics of development ethnography.

Window on Eurasia notes the new identification of Azerbaijanis as victims of genocide by neighbours, and what this means for the relations of Azerbaijan.

Arnold Zwicky has fun, in a NSFW fanfic way, with figures from comics contemporary and old.

The people of Wolfe Island are upset at cutbacks in ferry trips to and from their island. Global News reports.

The Cape Breton Post shares a fascinating report about the history of the Jewish community of industrial Cape Breton.

Sable Island, in the Atlantic off of the Nova Scotia coast, is going to enjoy a clean-up. Global News reports.

The Inter Press Service notes how global warming-accelerated erosion threatens to split the Caribbean island of Mayreau into two.

The Malta Independent examined some months ago how strong growth in the labour supply and tourism, along with capital inflows, have driven up property prices in Malta.

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.

I have another round-up post of links at Demography Matters, this one concentrating heavily on migration as it affects cities. An essay will come tomorrow, I promise!

JSTOR Daily considers the extent to which the Great Migration of African-Americans was a forced migration, driven not just by poverty but by systemic anti-black violence.

Even as the overall population of Japan continues to decline, the population of Tokyo continues to grow through net migration, Mainichi reports.

This CityLab article takes look at the potential, actual and lost and potential, of immigration to save the declining Ohio city of Youngstown. Will it, and other cities in the American Rust Belt, be able to take advantage of entrepreneurial and professional immigrants?

Window on Eurasia notes a somewhat alarmist take on Central Asian immigrant neighbourhoods in Moscow. That immigrant neighbourhoods can become largely self-contained can surprise no one.

Guardian Cities notes how tensions between police and locals in the Bairro do Jamaico in Lisbon reveal problems of integration for African immigrants and their descendants.

Carmen Arroyo at Inter Press Service writes about Pedro, a migrant from Oaxaca in Mexico who has lived in New York City for a dozen years without papers.

CBC Prince Edward Island notes that immigration retention rates on PEI, while low, are rising, perhaps showing the formation of durable immigrant communities. Substantial international migration to Prince Edward Island is only just starting, after all.

The industrial northern Ontario city of Sault Sainte-Marie, in the wake of the closure of the General Motors plant in the Toronto-area industrial city of Oshawa, was reported by Global News to have hopes to recruit former GM workers from Oshawa to live in that less expensive city.

Atlas Obscura examines the communities being knitted together across the world by North American immigrants from the Caribbean of at least partial Hakka descent. The complex history of this diaspora fascinates me.

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.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait shares a lovely photo of the Earth peeking out from behind the far side of the Moon.

At the Broadside Blog, Caitlin Kelly shares lovely photos of delicate ice and water taken on a winter's walk.

Centauri Dreams looks</> at the study by Chinese astronomers who, looking at the distribution of Cepheids, figured out that our galaxy's disk is an S-shaped warp.

D-Brief notes new evidence that melting of the Greenland ice sheet will disrupt the Gulf Stream.

L.M. Sacasas at The Frailest Thing takes issue with the uncritical idealization of the present, as opposed to the critical examination of whatever time period we are engaging with.

Gizmodo notes that an intensive series of brain scans is coming closer to highlighting the areas of the human brain responsible for consciousness.

Mark Graham links to new work of his, done in collaboration, looking at ways to make the sharing economy work more fairly in low- and middle-income countries.

JSTOR Daily notes how the mystic Catholicism of the African kingdom of Kongo may have gone on to inspire slave-led revolutions in 18th century North America and Haiti.

Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at an exhibition examining the ambitious architecture of Yugoslavia.

The Map Room Blog links to a cartographer's argument about the continuing importance of paper maps.

Marginal Revolution shares one commenter's perception of causes or the real estate boom in New Zealand.

Neuroskeptic considers the role of the mysterious silent neurons in the human brain.

At NYR Daily, Guadeloupe writer Maryse Condé talks about her career as a writer and the challenges of identity for her native island.

Roads and Kingdoms shares a list of ten dishes reflecting the history of the city of Lisbon.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel takes a look at the promise of likely mini-Neptune Barnard's Star b as a target for observation, perhaps even life.

Window on Eurasia shares the perfectly plausible argument that, just as the shift of the Irish to the English language did not end Irish identity and nationalism, so might a shift to Russian among Tatars not end Tatar identity.

This feature in The Guardian examines the sufferings of the people who have been made victims of conspiracy theories.

Global News takes a look at the strong support of New Brunswickers for the New England Patriots, rooted in a historical community that surely extends to the rest of Atlantic Canada.

Atlas Obscura examines the communities being knitted together across the world by North American immigrants from the Caribbean of at least partial Hakka descent.

The Guardian notes how, for many property-owners and residents, having Banksy graffiti on one of their walls might not be a blessing at all.

The Japan Times looks at how a gatekeeper in the infamous Aokigahara forest in Japan, a favoured destination of people planning suicide, is trying to inspire them to live.

Representatives of Easter Island, visiting London, plead for the return of a moai statue stolen away in the 1860s. The Guardian reports.

Guardian Cities notes the problems facing Pacific Island migrants in the New Zealand city of Auckland.

Daily Xtra takes a look at Pride on Curaçao.

The Conversation notes how Barbados has demonstrated, and is continuing to demonstrate, remarkable resiliency versus threats both natural and human.

Deb O'Rourke at NOW Toronto writes about how Toronto Islanders and the Mississauga of the New Credit First Nation are moving towards reconciliation.

This Joseph Kelly extract at Longreads looks at how maroons and pirates made common cause in the Caribbean in fighting for their freedom.

The Atlantic reports on how witchcraft is becoming popular among many African-Americans, especially African-American women, who reject Christianity.

The Conversation looks at the feminist critiques of the novels of Jane Austen, only barely hidden.

The BBC notes how an ancient myth of a Korean queen's origins in India is being used to build a new relationship between South Korea and India.

Ozy takes a look at a Filipino man who is trying to save the ancient baybayin script of the Philippines.

MacLean's looks at the long and sorry neglect of the Manitoba Arctic port of Churchill in its time of need by the Canadian federal government.

Wired looks at the "pink tax" in New York City, the extra costs imposed on women who need to take private transit in order to avoid harassment in public spaces.

Eater profiles the efforts of white neighborhoods in the Georgia city of Stockbridge to secede, something ostensibly presented as a desire to attract Cheesecake Factory and other restaurants to these areas.

CityLab reports on a sensitive effort to restore an art deco building in the Puerto Rican city of Ponce.

The Palestinian city of Ramallah, Guardian Cities reports, has its architectural heritage threatened by an unregulated construction boom.

La Presse notes that ongoing contruction is making traffic to and from the heavily populated Ile-des-Soeurs, just off Montréal, very difficult.

IPS News notes that Barbados is hoping to diversify beyond its traditional sugar cane agriculture to start tapping fisheries in the adjacent Atlantic.

The Island Review shares the reports of Marg Greenwood around the Scottish island of Islay.

Are the oldest fossils in the world, imprints in Greenland rocks billions of years old, actually fossils? CBC reports.

The Inter Press Services notes that the Seychelles have issued some bonds in support of new fisheries projects.

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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[PHOTO] Exuma on my screen in Toronto
[NEWS] Twenty news links
[BLOG] Some Thursday links
[BLOG] Some Sunday links
[MUSIC] Five music links: Lee Hazlewood, Massive Attack, Lana del Rey, One Love, Pet Shop Boys
[ISL] Five #islands links: Shoal Lake 40, Martha's Vineyard, Fogo, Ramea, Barbados
[BLOG] Some Monday links
[ISL] Five #islands links: St. Vincent, Orkneys, Hong Kong, Kiribati, Manus
[BLOG] Some Wednesday links
[ISL] Five #islands links: Wolfe Island, Cape Breton, Sable Island, Mayreau, Malta
[BLOG] Some Friday links
[DM] Some news links: history, cities, migration, diasporas
[BLOG] Some Tuesday links
[BLOG] Some Thursday links
[NEWS] Five culture links: conspiracies, Greater New England, Caribbean Hakka, Banksy, Aokigahara
[ISL] Five #islands links: Easter Island, New Zealand, Curaçao, Barbados, Toronto Islands
[NEWS] Five culture links: maroons and pirates, witchcraft, Jane Austen, Korea/India, baybayin
[URBAN NOTE] Five city notes: Churchill, New York City, Stockbridge, Ponce, Ramallah
[ISL] Five islands links: Ile-des-Soeurs, Barbados, Islay, Greenland, Seychelles (#islands)
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Entries tagged with caribbean

[PHOTO] Exuma on my screen in Toronto

[NEWS] Twenty news links

[BLOG] Some Thursday links

[BLOG] Some Sunday links

[MUSIC] Five music links: Lee Hazlewood, Massive Attack, Lana del Rey, One Love, Pet Shop Boys

[ISL] Five #islands links: Shoal Lake 40, Martha's Vineyard, Fogo, Ramea, Barbados

[BLOG] Some Monday links

[ISL] Five #islands links: St. Vincent, Orkneys, Hong Kong, Kiribati, Manus

[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

[ISL] Five #islands links: Wolfe Island, Cape Breton, Sable Island, Mayreau, Malta

[BLOG] Some Friday links

[DM] Some news links: history, cities, migration, diasporas

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

[BLOG] Some Thursday links

[NEWS] Five culture links: conspiracies, Greater New England, Caribbean Hakka, Banksy, Aokigahara

[ISL] Five #islands links: Easter Island, New Zealand, Curaçao, Barbados, Toronto Islands

[NEWS] Five culture links: maroons and pirates, witchcraft, Jane Austen, Korea/India, baybayin

[URBAN NOTE] Five city notes: Churchill, New York City, Stockbridge, Ponce, Ramallah

[ISL] Five islands links: Ile-des-Soeurs, Barbados, Islay, Greenland, Seychelles (#islands)