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Ryan Anderson at anthro{dendum} looks at the unnatural history of the beach in California, here.

Architectuul looks at the architectural imaginings of Iraqi Shero Bahradar, here.

Bad Astronomy looks at gas-rich galaxy NGC 3242.

James Bow announces his new novel The Night Girl, an urban fantasy set in an alternate Toronto with an author panel discussion scheduled for the Lillian H. Smith Library on the 28th.

Centauri Dreams looks at the indirect evidence for an exomoon orbiting WASP-49b, a possible Io analogue detected through its ejected sodium.

Crooked Timber considers the plight of holders of foreign passports in the UK after Brexit.

The Crux notes that astronomers are still debating the nature of galaxy GC1052-DF2, oddly lacking in dark matter.

D-Brief notes how, in different scientific fields, the deaths of prominent scientists can help progress.

Bruce Dorminey notes how NASA and the ESA are considering sample-return missions to Ceres.

Andrew LePage at Drew Ex Machina looks at the first test flights of the NASA Mercury program.

The Dragon's Tales looks at how Japan is considering building ASAT weapons.

Andrew LePage at Drew Ex Machina looks at the first test flights of the NASA Mercury program.

Far Outliers looks how the anti-malarial drug quinine played a key role in allowing Europeans to survive Africa.

At In Media Res, Russell Arben Fox considers grace and climate change.

io9 reports on how Jonathan Frakes had anxiety attacks over his return as Riker on Star Trek: Picard.

JSTOR Daily reports on the threatened banana.

Language Log looks at the language of Hong Kong protesters.

Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns and Money notes how a new version of The Last of the Mohicans perpetuates Native American erasure.

Marginal Revolution notes how East Germany remains alienated.

Neuroskeptic looks at the participant-observer effect in fMRI subjects.

The NYR Daily reports on a documentary looking at the India of Modi.

Corey S. Powell writes at Out There about Neptune.

The Planetary Society Blog examines the atmosphere of Venus, something almost literally oceanic in its nature.

Noel Maurer at The Power and the Money considers how Greenland might be incorporated into the United States.

Rocky Planet notes how Earth is unique down to the level of its component minerals.

The Russian Demographics Blog considers biopolitical conservatism in Poland and Russia.

Starts With a Bang's Ethan Siegel considers if LIGO has made a detection that might reveal the nonexistence of the theorized mass gap between neutron stars and black holes.

Frank Jacobs at Strange Maps looks at Marchetti's constant: People in cities, it seems, simply do not want to commute for a time longer than half an hour.

Understanding Society's Daniel Little looks at how the US Chemical Safety Board works.

Window on Eurasia reports on how Muslims in the Russian Far North fare.

Arnold Zwicky looks at cannons and canons.

Anthro{dendum} features an essay examining trauma and resiliency as encountered in ethnographic fieldwork.

Architectuul highlights a new project seeking to promote historic churches built in the United Kingdom in the 20th century.

Bad Astronomy's Phil Plait examines Ahuna Mons, a muddy and icy volcano on Ceres, and looks at the nebula Westerhout 40.

Centauri Dreams notes the recent mass release of data from a SETI project, and notes the discovery of two vaguely Earth-like worlds orbiting the very dim Teegarden's Star, just 12 light-years away.

Chris Bertram at Crooked Timber notes that having universities as a safe space for trans people does not infringe upon academic freedom.

The Crux looks at the phenomenon of microsleep.

D-Brief notes evidence that the Milky Way Galaxy was warped a billion years ago by a collision with dark matter-heavy dwarf galaxy Antlia 2, and notes a robotic fish powered by a blood analogue.

The Dragon's Tales notes that India plans on building its own space station.

Earther notes the recording of the song of the endangered North Pacific right whale.

The Everyday Sociology Blog looks at the role of emotional labour in leisure activities.

Far Outliers looks at how Japan prepared for the Battle of the Leyte Gulf in 1944.

Gizmodo looks at astronomers' analysis of B14-65666, an ancient galactic collision thirteen billion light-years away, and notes that the European Space Agency has a planned comet interception mission.

io9 notes how the plan for Star Trek in the near future is to not only have more Star Trek, but to have many different kinds of Star Trek for different audiences.

Joe. My. God. notes the observation of Pete Buttigieg that the US has probably already had a gay president.

JSTOR Daily looks at the many ways in which the rhetoric of Celtic identity has been used, and notes that the archerfish uses water ejected from its eyes to hunt.

Language Hat looks at why Chinese is such a hard language to learn for second-language learners, and looks at the Suso monastery in Spain, which played a key role in the coalescence of the Spanish language.

Language Log looks at the complexities of katakana.

Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the death of deposed Egypt president Mohammed Morsi looks like a slow-motion assassination, and notes collapse of industrial jobs in the Ohio town of Lordstown, as indicative of broader trends.

The LRB Blog looks at the death of Mohamed Morsi.

The Map Rom Blog shares a new British Antarctic Survey map of Greenland and the European Arctic.

Marginal Revolution notes how non-religious people are becoming much more common in the Middle East, and makes the point that the laying of cable for the transatlantic telegraph is noteworthy technologically.

Noah Smith at Noahpionion takes the idea of the Middle East going through its own version of the Thirty Years War seriously. What does this imply?

The NYR Daily takes a look at a Lebanon balanced somehow on the edge, and looks at the concentration camp system of the United States.

The Planetary Society Blog explains what people should expect from LightSail 2, noting that the LightSail 2 has launched.

Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw points readers to his stories on Australian spy Harry Freame.

Rocky Planet explains, in the year of the Apollo 50th anniversary, why the Moon matters.

Drew Rowsome reviews, and praises, South African film Kanarie, a gay romp in the apartheid era.

The Russian Demographics Blog links to a paper examining the relationship between childcare and fertility in Belgium, and looks at the nature of statistical data from Turkmenistan.

The Strange Maps Blog shares a map highlighting different famous people in the United States.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains why different galaxies have different amounts of dark matter, and shares proof that the Apollo moon landings actually did happen.

Towleroad notes the new evidence that poppers, in fact, are not addictive.

Window on Eurasia warns about the parlous state of the Volga River.

Arnold Zwicky takes an extended look at the mid-20th century gay poet Frank O'Hara.

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.

D-Brief notes that, with the Dawn probe unresponsive, its mission to Vesta and Ceres is now over.

The Dragon's Tales reports that NASA is seeking commercial partners to deliver cargo to the proposed Gateway station.

JSTOR Daily looks back to a time where chestnuts were a staple food in Appalachia.

Language Log takes a look at prehistoric words in Eurasia for honey, in Indo-European and Old Sinitic.

Joy Katz at the LRB Blog writes about her lived experience of the conventional Pittsburgh neighbourhood of Squirrel Hill, a perhaps unlikely scene of tragedy.

The Map Room Blog links to an interactive map showing the Québec election results.

Marginal Revolution links to that New York Magazine article about young people who do not vote to start a discussion.

Roads and Kingdoms looks at the real dangers faced by Venezuelan refugees in the northern Brazilian state of Roraima, at the start of the era of Bolsonaro.

Window on Eurasia argues that changes to the Russian census allowing people to identify with multiple ethnicities could lead to a sharp shrinking in the numbers of minority nationalities.

Centauri Dreams considers the OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe to Bennu.

D-Brief notes that the core and the crust of dwarf planet Ceres apparently rotate at different speeds.

Dangerous Minds shares the early glam rock of Rick Springfield.

Gizmodo looks at the discovery of a new, oddly faint, sort of supernova explosion, one that explains how neutron stars can ever be so close as to collide.

JSTOR Daily examines the concept of mana, the mystical power that can be generated by the act of speech.

The LRB Blog considers how humanity will ever be able to address the rising sea, through geoengineering or techniques still more new to us.

Window on Eurasia wonders if Belarus is likely to be the new target of Russian expansionism.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait takes a look at the question of how far, exactly, the Pleiades star cluster is from Earth. It turns out this question breaks down into a lot of interesting secondary issues.

The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly starts an interesting discussion around the observation that so many people are uncomfortable with the details of their body.

Centauri Dreams reports on the exciting evidence of cryovolcanism at Ceres.

The Crux reports on new suggestions that, although Neanderthals had bigger brains than Homo sapiens, Neanderthal brains were not thereby better brains.

D-Brief notes evidence that the ability of bats and dolphins to echolocate may ultimate derive from a shared gene governing their muscles.

Bruce Dorminey notes that astronomers have used data on the trajectory of 'Oumuamua to suggest it may have come from one of four stars.

Far Outliers explores the Appalachian timber boom of the 1870s that created the economic preconditions for the famed feud between the Hatfields and the McCoys.

Language Hat notes the unique whistling language prevailing among the Khasi people living in some isolated villages in the Indian state of Meghalaya.

Lingua Franca, at the Chronicles, notes that the fastest-growing language in the United States is the Indian language of Telugu.

Jeremy Harding at the LRB Blog writes about the import of the recognition, by Macron, of the French state's involvement in the murder of pro-Algerian independence activist Maurice Audin in 1958.

Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution praises the diaries of Mihail Sebastian, a Romanian Jewish intellectual alive during the Second World War

The New APPS Blog takes a look at the concept of the carnival from Bakhtin.

Gabrielle Bellot at NYR Daily considers the life of Elizabeth Bishop and Bishop's relationship to loneliness.

Jason Davis at the Planetary Society Blog describes how CubeSats were paired with solar sails to create a Mars probe, Mars Cube One.

The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer considers some possible responses from the left to a conservative Supreme Court in the US.

Roads and Kingdoms takes a look at the challenges facing the street food of Xi'an.

Rocky Planet examines why, for decades, geologists mistakenly believed that the California ground was bulging pre-earthquake in Palmdale.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel examines how some objects called stars, like neutron stars and white dwarfs and brown dwarfs, actually are not stars.

Frank Jacobs at Strange Maps notes how China and Europe stand out as being particularly irreligious on a world map of atheism.

Window on Eurasia notes the instability that might be created in the North Caucasus by a border change between Chechnya and Ingushetia.

Arnold Zwicky shares some beautiful pictures of flowers from a garden in Palo Alto.

The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly talks about her rules for life.

The Crux explores the development of robots that can learn from each other.

JSTOR Daily explores the legal and environmental reasons why commercial supersonic flight never took off.

Robert Farley at Lawyers, Guns and Money imagines what might have been had the F-14 Tomcat never escaped development hell.

Peter Watts wonders if, with de-extinction becoming possible, future generations might become even less careful with the environment, knowing they can fix things and never bothering to do so.

Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw argues that, with MOOCs and multiple careers in a working lifespan, autodidacticism is bound to return.

The Planetary Society Blog's Marc Rayman looks at the final orbits of the Dawn probe over Ceres and the expected scientific returns.

Roads and Kingdoms explores the New Jersey sandwich known, alternatively, as the Taylor ham and the pork roll.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel considers what led to the early universe having an excess of matter over antimatter.

Ilya Somin at the Volokh Conspiracy explores why the California Supreme Court took the trifurcation of California off referendum papers.

Window on Eurasia notes how some in independent Azerbaijan fears that Iranian ethnic Azeris might try to subvert the independent country's secularism.

Bad Astronomy notes the discovery of a distant exoplanet, orbiting subgiant EPIC248847494, with an orbit ten years long.

Centauri Dreams reports on the latest discoveries regarding Ceres' Occator Crater, a place with a cryovolcanic past.

D-Brief notes the discovery of a brilliant early galaxy, the brightest so far found, P352-15.

Dangerous Minds shares an extended interview with Françoise Hardy.

Far Outliers notes how, during the later Cold War, cash-desperate Soviet bloc governments allowed hopeful emigrants for countries in the West to depart only if these governments paid a ransom for them.

Hornet Stories has a nice feature on Enemies of Dorothy, a LGBT sketch comedy group with a political edge. I saw some of their clips; I'm following them.

JSTOR Daily looks at some of the features uniting celebratory music festival Coachella with Saturnalia, fitting the former into an ancient tradition.

Language Hat reports on researchers studying the development of emojis. Are they becoming components of a communications system with stable meanings?

Marginal Revolution reports on how mobile money is becoming a dominant element in the economy of Somaliland.

Justine Petrone at North reports on the things that were, and were not, revealed about his family's ancestry through DNA testing.

Melissa Chadburn writes at the NYR Daily about the food she ate growing up as a poor child, and its meaning for her then and now in a time of growing inequality.

Roads and Kingdoms tells of a woman's experience drinking samsu, a clear rice liqueur, in Malacca.

Drew Rowsome raves over David Kingston Yeh's debut novel, the queer Toronto-themed The Boy at the Edge of the World.

Window on Eurasia quotes a Russian observer who suggests that Trump's attempt to disrupt the European Union, even if successful, might simply help make Germany into a strategic competitor to the United States (with benefits for other powers).

Bad Astronomy notes the wonders being witnessed by the Dawn probe in orbit of Ceres.

Centauri Dreams notes the potential of effectively immortal interstellar probes.

D-Brief notes the discovery of some genetic origins of loneliness.

The Everyday Sociology Blog notes the connections and potential conflicts between concepts of race and the British royal family.

Far Outliers shares the first part of the summary of an article examining contact between African and Japanese mercenaries in early modern Asia.

Gizmodo wonders if Uranus' large axial tilt can be explained by some sort of massive collision.

Hornet Stories likes the way that Pose, a show set in queer communities in New York City in the 1980s, deals with HIV.

In the aftermath of the tumult regarding the New York Times' coverage of Batman and Catwoman, io9 offers the paper some tips on covering pop culture.

JSTOR Daily shares a paper noting how and why, in belle époque Chicago, immigrant communities often sponsored Fourth of July celebrations.

Language Hat deals with the convention of many writers in English to italicize foreign words. Why do this, again?

Jonathan Freedland at the NYR Daily considers the import of the Fourth of July for the United States in 2018.

Science and Food looks at liquid nitrogen gastronomy.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel considers if the universe might be headed for a big rip.

Anthropology.net's Kambiz Kamrani notes evidence that environmental change in Kenya may have driven creativity in early human populations there.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait shows how astronomers use stellar occultations to investigate the thin atmosphere of Neptune's moon Triton.

Centauri Dreams notes how melting ice creates landscape change on Ceres.

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Dangerous Minds shares Paul Bowles' recipe for a Moroccan love charm.

The Everyday Sociology Blog investigates the transformation of shopping malls and in the era of Amazon Prime.

At In Medias Res, Russell Arben Fox engages with Left Behind and that book's portrayal of rural populations in the United States which feel left behind.

JSTOR Daily looks at how Roman Catholic nuns on the 19th century American frontier challenged gender norms.

Lawyers, Guns and Money is critical of Tex-Mex cuisine, calling it an uncreative re-presentation of Mexican cuisine for white people in high-calorie quantities.

The NYR Daily shared this thought-provoking article noting how Irish America, because of falling immigration from Ireland and growing liberalism on that island, is diverging from its ancestral homeland.

Drew Rowsome reviews The Monument, a powerful play currently on in Toronto that engages with the missing and murdered native women.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel notes, in a photo-heavy post, how galaxies die (or at least, how they stop forming stars).

Towleroad shares a delightful interview with Adam Rippon conducted over a plate of hot wings.

Window on Eurasia shares an alternate history article imagining what would have become of Russia had Muscovy not conquered Novgorod.

Worthwhile Canadian Initiative notes the very sharp rise in public debt held by the province of Ontario, something that accelerated in recent years.

Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell suggests, in the era of Cambridge Analytica and fake news, that many journalists seem not to take their profession seriously enough.

This feature explaining how neutrino telescopes in Antarctica are being used to study the Earth's core is fascinating. The Globe and Mail has it.

Universe Today shares "Project Lyra", a proposal for an unmanned probe to interstellar asteroid 'Oumuamua.

Dwarf planets Ceres and Pluto, Nora Redd suggests at Discover, may have much more in common than we might think. Is Ceres a KBO transported into the warm asteroid belt?

Universe Today reports on one paper that takes a look at some mechanisms behind galactic panspermia.

Centauri Dreams notes the remarkably complex system of Proxima Centauri, with multiple belts and more possible planets, as does D-Brief.

D-Brief notes the discovery of a new sort of fusion reactions, involving not atoms but quarks.

Hornet Stories notes a new acoustic cover of the Kinky Boots song "Not My Father's Son."

Language Hat takes a brief look at Cyrillic, since the Soviet era written in Cyrillic script.

Lawyers, Guns and Money notes how the Trump Administration is unconcerned by the latest report regarding catastrophic climate change.

The LRB Blog notes how Armenia and Armenians remember past genocides and current refugee flows.

The Planetary Society Blog notes the further extension of the Dawn mission at Ceres.

Drew Rowsome shares some of Stephen King's tips for aspiring writers.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel notes how some long-exposure Hubble photographs of galaxies picked up nearby asteroids.

John Scalzi shares his cover of "Rocket Man".

Window on Eurasia wonders if ISIS is spreading into Russia via migrant workers from Central Asia.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait notes the import of comet A/2017U1, a potential visitor from another planetary system, while Centauri Dreams also takes a look.
The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly celebrates Montréal's Atwater Market, with photos.

Bruce Dorminey notes one report that Ceres' primordial ocean may have mixed with its surface, to make a world covered in salty mud.

The Map Room Blog links to an interactive French-language map looking at census data on different neighbourhoods in different cities.

The New APPS Blog looks at the changing role of the judiciary as enforcing of order in a privatized world.

The NYR Daily wonders if North Korea's government has firm control over its nuclear weapons, given American issues.

The Planetary Society Blog notes the expansion of Google Maps to other worlds in our solar system.

The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer examines the situation facing Catalonia, and Spain, after the UDI.

Roads and Kingdoms takes a photographic look at Little Mogadishu, a Somali neighbourhood in Kampala, Uganda.

Rocky Planet notes the ongoing risk of a major volcanic eruption at Tinakula, in the Solomon Islands.

Understanding Society takes a look at the role and functioning of overlapping social identities.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait reports on the naming of the features of the surface of Ceres.

D-Brief notes that small-scale robotic manufacturing is now a thing.

The Dragon's Gaze reports on a new study of exoplanets and their stars.

The Dragon's Tales has a nice round-up of news on hominin research and primates generally.

Hornet Stories notes that there is apparently a debate about women as drag queens. I don't see why they should not, frankly.

Joe. My. God links to a Rolling Stone article celebrating Erotica and Sex, by Madonna, on their 25th anniversary.

Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the way Dollar General caters to a permanent underclass. Like Dollarama in Canada?

Language Hat notes that Xibe, related to Manchu, is receiving protection from China.

The NYR Daily reports on the mass killings, approaching genocide, in Indonesia in 1965.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel reports on the proofs we have for the current age of the universe.

Centauri Dreams notes evidence that pitted terrain, as found on Ceres and Vesta, indicates subsurface ice.

Dead Things links to evidence suggesting insomnia and poor sleep are not disorders, but rather evolutionary inheritances that were useful in the past.

Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the critical human role in the ongoing sixth extinction.

Language Hat links to speculation that the Afroasiatic language family has its origins in the Natufian Levant.

The LRB Blog reports on a fascinating French show about espionage, Le Bureau des légendes.

Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw reports on an important speech by Malcolm Turnbull on politics and Australia's Liberal Party.

The Planetary Society Blog shares Marc Rayman's report on the latest discoveries of Dawn at Ceres.

Spacing' Sean Ruthven has a review of a beautiful book on the Sea Ranch, a northern California estate.

Back in May, Septembre Anderson argued at Torontoist that rather than embracing diversity, Canadian media was more willing to wither.

Window on Eurasia shares an argument suggesting Baltic Russians would not follow the Donbas into revolt because the Baltics are much better off economically.

blogTO suggests the Port Lands might become an artists' hu8b.

The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly talks about the complexities involved with managing feelings.

Centauri Dreams talks about different methods of near-term interstellar travel.

Joe. My. God. notes that Nordic prime ministers have just trolled Trump's bizarre orb-based photo op.

Language Hat shares some interesting claims about standard Finnish as a neutral dialect.
The Planetary Society Blog talks about the latest stages of the Dawn mission to Ceres.

Peter Rukavina looks at the end of Charlottetown's Founders' Hall.

Torontoist examines Ontario's impending $15 an hour minimum wage.

Window on Eurasia reports on the latest disputes between Russia and Ukraine on their shared history.

Centauri Dreams looks at evidence that Ceres' Occator Crater, an apparent cryovolcano, may have been recently active.

Crooked Timber's John Quiggin wonders what would have happened had Kerensky accepted the German Reichstag's proposal in 1917.

Dangerous Minds looks at some fun that employees at a bookstore in France got up to with book covers.

Cody Delistraty describes F. Scott Fitzgerald's utter failure to fit into Hollywood.

A Fistful of Euros hosts Alex Harrowell's blog post taking a look at recent history from a perspective of rising populism.

io9 reports on a proposal from the Chinese city of Lanzhou to set up a water pipeline connecting it to Siberia's Lake Baikal.

Imageo notes a recent expedition by Norwegian scientists aiming at examining the winter ice.

Strange Maps links to an amazing graphic mapping the lexical distances between Europe's languages.

Window on Eurasia argues that Russia is on the verge of a new era of population decline, and shares a perhaps alarming perspective on the growth of Muslim populations in Russia.

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blogTO tries to pit the west side of Toronto against the east side.

Centauri Dreams describes an inventive plan to launch a probe to rendezvous with Proxima Centauri.

Crooked Timber looks at the idea of civil society in the age of Trump.

The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper that aims to explore why Neptune-class exoplanets are so common.

Marginal Revolution notes an interesting history of Singapore.

The New APPS Blog links to a report suggesting that big data may have created President Trump.

The Planetary Society Blog reports on the latest plans for exploring Ceres.

Towleroad notes a rumoured plan to legalize anti-LGBT discrimination under Trump.

The Volokh Conspiracy has one take on Supreme Court obstructionism.

Window on Eurasia suggests Russians may accept pension reforms which will place the minimum age for qualifying for a pension for men above the average male life expectancy, and reports from St. Petersburg about a dispute over the ownership of a church.

Crossposts: http://rfmcdpei.livejournal.com/5478550.html

Anthropology.net looks at the genetics of how the Inuit have adapted to cold weather.

'Nathan Smith's Apostrophen shares the author's plans for the coming year.

Beyond the Beyond's Bruce Sterling shares Margaret Atwood's commitment to fighting for freedom of expression.

Crooked Timber asks its readers for recommendations in Anglophone science fiction.

D-Brief notes the discovery of the human mesentery.

The Dragon's Gaze looks at the protoplanetary disk of LkCa 15 disk.

Far Outliers looks at some lobsters imported to Japan from (a) Christmas Island.

Joe. My. God. notes Janet Jackson has given birth.

Language Hat examines the contrast often made between indigenous and immigrant languages.

Language Log looks at the names of the stations of the Haifa subway.

Steve Munro notes Bathurst Station's goodbye to Honest Ed's.

The Planetary Society Blog examines the Dawn probe's discoveries at Ceres in the past year.

Window on Eurasia looks at how the permafrost of the Russian far north is melting and endangering entire cities, and contrasts the prosperity of the Estonian city of Narva relative to the decay of adjacent Ivangorod.

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