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Jamie Bradburn shares photos from his neighbourhood's East Lynn Pumpkin Parade, here.

Sidewalk Labs is going to release details of all the data it wants to collect. The Toronto Star reports.

NOW Toronto reports on the controversy in the NDP riding association for Parkdale-High Park over the nomination, here.

There is a napping studio in Toronto, offering people the chance to nap for 25 minutes at $10 per nap. The National Post reports.

CBC reports on a film about Little Jamaica, a neighbourhood along Eglinton Avenue West that might be transformed out of existence, here
Daily Xtra looks at the legacy of the Meghan Murphy visit to Toronto.

Spacing notes that the Toronto Reference Library has a large collection of Communist newspapers available for visitors.

The idea of Metrolinx paying for the repair of damaged Eglinton Avenue does make a lot of intuitive sense. CBC reports.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait takes a look at the German city of Nordlingen, formed in a crater created by the impact of a binary asteroid with Earth.

Centauri Dreams reports on the possibility that the farside of the Moon might bear the imprint of an ancient collision with a dwarf planet the size of Ceres.

D-Brief notes that dredging for the expansion of the port of Miami has caused terrible damage to corals there.

Dangerous Minds looks at the last appearances of David Bowie and Iggy Pop together on stage.

The Dragon's Tales notes that China is on track to launch an ambitious robotic mission to Mars in 2020.

Karen Sternheimer at the Everyday Sociology Blog talks about what sociological research actually is.

Gizmodo reports on the discovery of a torus of cool gas circling Sagittarius A* at a distance of a hundredth of a light-year.

io9 reports about Angola Janga, an independent graphic novel by Marcelo D'Salete showing how slaves from Africa in Brazil fought for their freedom and independence.

The Island Review shares some poems of Matthew Landrum, inspired by the Faroe Islands.

Joe. My. God. looks at how creationists are mocking flat-earthers for their lack of scientific knowledge.

Language Hat looks at the observations of Mary Beard that full fluency in ancient Latin is rare even for experts, for reason I think understandable.

Melissa Byrnes wrote at Lawyers, Guns and Money about the meaning of 4 June 1989 in the political transitions of China and Poland.

Marginal Revolution notes how the New York Times has become much more aware of cutting-edge social justice in recent years.

The NYR Daily looks at how the memories and relics of the Sugar Land prison complex outside of Houston, Texas, are being preserved.

Jason C Davis at the Planetary Society Blog looks at the differences between LightSail 1 and the soon-to-be-launched LightSail 2.

The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer looks in detail at the high electricity prices in Argentina.

Peter Rukavina looks at the problems with electric vehicle promotion on PEI.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel looks at when the universe will have its first black dwarf. (Not in a while.)

Window on Eurasia suggests that Belarusians are not as interested in becoming citizens of Russia as an Internet poll suggests.

Arnold Zwicky highlights a Pride Month cartoon set in Antarctica featuring the same-sex marriage of two penguins.

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.

This r/imaginarymaps map imagines a united Anglo-Dutch state. Could such have ever have occurred?

This r/imaginarymaps map, one in a series, imagines a Patagonia divided between multiple rival powers perhaps after the Guyanas. Could Patagonia, only recently incorporated into Argentina and Chile, have seen something like this?

This is a perhaps-optimistic depiction of the territory that a #Virginia independent of the United States might have held. In a no-US timeline, how far could it have gotten?

This r/imaginarymaps map sees the Empire of Japan as a bulwark against Communism in Asia, even taking Australia and New Zealand under its aegis. Too, see its protectorate over the Russian Far East.

This r/imaginarymaps map, imagining a European Federation circa 2004, makes an important point: The earlier that Europe unifies, the more geographically restricted its membership will be.

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.

Ai Weiwei is reported as noting at NOW Toronto the role of Western governments in enabling the rise of the People's Republic of China.

Business Insider argues that, in terms of numbers, technology, and strategy, the nuclear arsenal of China is the best thought-out of any of the nine nuclear weapons states.

SCMP notes how the naval ambitions of Britain in the Pacific make little military sense but perhaps some economic sense.

Foreign Policy looks at how oil, in Venezuela, did not guarantee that country's indefinite prosperity.

Open Democracy hosts an article suggests that monarchism, in the form of the Shah's son and heir Reza Pahlavi, actually has a chance of opposing the Islamic Republic.

Pete Shelley, of the Buzzcocks and a star in his own right, has died at 63, BBC reports. The 1981 Pete Shelley song "Homosapien" is one of my favourite overlooked post-punk songs. (The queer visibility is also nice.)

The Economist makes a case for the historical importance of Kate Bush.

Dangerous Minds asks a question, mostly rhetorically: Was Peter Sutcliffe a Joy Division fan? If nothing else, the overlap does show interesting things about patterns in northern England's cities.

This Anil Dash essay at Medium about P.M. Dawn, a hip-hop musician so big in the 1990s and so overlooked now, provides a really useful perspective on this artist.

Rolling Stone interviews Tim Mohr on the subject of the punk scene in East Germany, a cultural alternative that he argues helped undermine the dictatorship.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait shares photos of a dust storm over Greenland.

The Crux looks at the hypervelocity stars of the MIlky Way Galaxy, stars flung out towards intergalactic space by close encounters with the galactic core.

D-Brief notes a study suggesting that the gut bacteria of immigrants to the United States tends to Americanize over time, becoming less diverse.

Joe. My. God. notes yet another homophobe--this time, an ex-gay "therapist"--who has been outed as actively seeking gay sex.

JSTOR Daily notes that bears preparing to build up their fat stores for hibernation really have to work hard at this task.

Language Hat notes, after Elias Canetti, a benefit of being multilingual: You can find out if people near you are planning to kill you.

Lawyers, Guns and Money recounts an anecdote from the 1980s revealing the great racism on the part of Donald Trump.

Sadakat Kadri at the LRB Blog notes a gloomy celebration in Prague of the centenary of the 1918 foundation of Czechoslovakia, gloomy not just because of the weather but because of the rhetoric of Czechia's president.

The Map Room Blog notes a new book examining the political and military import of mapmaking in Scotland.

Cheryl Thompson at Spacing writes about the long history of blackface in Canadian popular culture, looking at the representations it made and the tensions that it hid.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel looks at how new technologies are allowing astronomers to overcome the distorting effects of the atmosphere.

Frances Woolley at Worthwhile Canadian Initiative, looking at female employment in Canada, finds the greatest potential for further growth in older women. (Issues, including the question of how to include these women and how to fight discrimination, need to be dealt with first.)

The Crux compares the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the stories that they hold, to the sorts of oral histories that historians have traditionally been skeptical of. What, after all, is the difference?

D-Brief notes a proposal by scientists to reengineer the world's food system to support a larger population in a time of environmental stresses.

Earther notes that Gallifrey, the homeworld of Doctor Who, would be a pretty uninviting Earth-like world.

Peter Kaufman at the Everyday Sociology Blog writes a powerful sociological treatment of his impending death.

Far Outliers considers the relative firepower of the Hatfields and the McCoys.

JSTOR Daily links to a paper considering how, and why, different epidemics can be suitable (or not) for entertainment purposes.

Language Hat looks at a remarkable new book, Robert Macfarlane's Lost Words, drawing from the nature-related words dropped by the Oxford Junior Dictionary.

Lingua Franca at the Chronicle notes how "du coup" has ascended to become a newly prominent expression in French.

Marginal Revolution links to a paper examining mechanisms explaining how Communism had a lasting negative effect towards immigration.

Window on Eurasia notes that Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, poor and insecure, need Russian military bases in their countries more than Russia does.

Amanda Connelly at Global News last month took a look at the reasons why the Canadian common market has been, and will remain, so fragmented.

Robert Alexander Innes at The Conversation makes the perfectly defensible argument, in relation to statues of John A. MacDonald, that while MacDonald should not be forgotten his anti-First Nations racism should likewise not be celebrated. History matters.

VICE takes a look at the life and prospects of Louis Alphonse, Duc of Anjou and one of the claimants to the defunct French throne.

The Local Italy notes that many of the populists of that country are outraged by comparisons between current immigrants to Italy and past emigrants from Italy. Those emigrants are different, you see.

Michael Hauser at Open Democracy suggests that, if the Prague Spring in late 1960s Czechoslovakia been allowed to unfold, it might well have inspired many in West and East with a vision of a different model.

Guardian Cities introduces readers to the Socialist Moderism Instagram account, part of a project by Romania's Bureau for Art and Urban Research to preserve records of Eastern Bloc architecture.

Brian Martucci at Oxy writes about how many American communities are capping their highways, burying them underground, and in so doing restoring neighbourhoods split by mid-20th century construction.

This beautiful long-form essay at Lithub by Saritha Ramakrishna, looking at her childhood in Phoenix, imagines what futures will be available to the United States' desert cities in the foreseeable future.

Matt Taylor at VICE notes that non-rich people face being driven out of major cities and that initiatives like wooing Amazon will only make things worse.

Via the Map Room Blog, I found Jack Nicas' New York Times article noting how Google Maps is not only renaming old neighbourhoods and creating new ones, but that these labels now stick.

Architectuul looks at how, in Communist Romania, postcards sent from the resorts ot the Black Sea coast were used to bolster the image of the regime.

Bad Astronomy notes the evidence for a recent planetary collision in the young system of RW Aurigae A.

Crux visits the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, at present the main spaceport for human passengers on Earth.

D-Brief notes how radial velocity methods can be used to quickly find exoplanets with relatively distant orbits around their star.

Dead Things notes evidence that Neanderthals did make use of fire.

Hornet Stories notes an interview given by Barry Humphries, the actor behind Dame Edna, in which he reveals pro-Trump and anti-trans opinions.

At In Media Res, Russell Arben Fox grapples with the possibility of human technological civilization not being sustainable, not being natural.

JSTOR Daily looks at how early modern alchemists imagined human beings might be created.

Drew Rowsome celebrates the reappearance of Buddy Cole, the signature creation of Scott Thompson.

Towleroad shares an extended interview with Steven Canals, the screenwriter behind Pose, talking about this series' background and his goals.

At the Volokh Conspiracy, Jonathan M. Adler deconstructs the argument of Michael Anton against birthright citizenship in the United States.

At Worthwhile Canadian Initiative, Livio di Matteo wonders what Trump's incessant political Russophilia has in common with the CoDominium of SF writer Jerry Pournelle, a Russian-American alliance aimed at dominating the world.

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 Astronomer Phil Plait suggests that strange markings in the upper atmosphere of Venus might well be evidence of life in that relatively Earth-like environment.

The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly raves over Babylon Berlin.

Centauri Dreams considers, fifty years after its publication, Clarke's 2001.

Crooked Timber considers Kevin Williamson in the context of conservative intellectual representation more generally.

D-Brief considers "digisexuality", the fusion of the digital world with sexuality. (I think we're quite some way off, myself.)

The Dragon's Tales considers evidence suggesting that the agricultural revolution in ancient Anatolia was achieved without population replacement from the Fertile Crescent.

Drew Ex Machina takes a look at the flight of Apollo 6, a flight that helped iron out problem with the Saturn V.

The Frailest Thing's Michael Sacasas is not impressed by the idea of the trolley problem, as something that allows for the displacement of responsibility.

Gizmodo explains why the faces of Neanderthals were so different from the faces of modern humans.

JSTOR Daily considers if volcano-driven climate change helped the rise of Christianity.

Language Log considers, after Spinoza, the idea that vowels are the souls of consonants.

Lawyers, Guns and Money engages in a bit of speculation: What would have happened had Clinton won? (Ideological gridlock, perhaps.)

Lovesick Cyborg explores how the advent of the cheap USB memory stick allowed North Koreans to start to enjoy K-Pop.

Russell Darnley considers the transformation of the forests of Indonesia's Riau forest from closed canopy forest to plantations.

The Map Room Blog shares some praise of inset maps.

Neuroskeptic considers how ketamine may work as an anti-depressant.

The NYR Daily considers student of death, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross.

Justin Petrone of north! shares an anecdote from the Long Island coastal community of Greenport.

Personal Reflection's Jim Belshaw considers the iconic Benjamin Wolfe painting The Death of General Wolfe.

The Planetary Society Blog's Casey Dreier notes cost overruns for the James Webb Space Telescope.

pollotenchegg maps recent trends in natural increase and decrease in Ukraine.

Roads and Kingdoms talks about a special Hverabrauð in Iceland, baked in hot springs.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel shares his own proposal for a new Drake Equation, revised to take account of recent discoveries.

Vintage Space considers how the American government would have responded if John Glenn had died in the course of his 1962 voyage into space.

Window on Eurasia considers the belief among many Russians that had Beria, not Khrushchev, succeeded Stalin, the Soviet Union might have been more successful.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait notes that a recent massive flare at Proxima Centauri, one that made the star become a thousand times brighter, not only makes Proxima b unlikely to be habitable but makes it unlikely Proxima has (as some suggested) a big planetary system.

The Dragon's Tales notes that South Korea, contrary to earlier reports, is not going to ban cryptocurrency.

Hornet Stories notes that six American states--Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Montana, and Oklahoma--have seen the introduction of legislation replacing marriage with a marriage contract, on account of marriage equality.

JSTOR Daily reports on the deep similarities and differences between serfdom in Russia and slavery in the United States, both formally abolished in the 1860s.

Language Hat links to a Telegraph article reporting on the efforts of different people to translate different ancient languages.

The New APPS Blog notes that, after Delta dropped its discount for NRA members, the pro-NRA governor of Georgia dropped tax breaks for the airline.

This call for the world to respond to the horrors in Syria, shared at the NYR Daily, is likely to fall on deaf ears.

At Strange Maps, Frank Jacobs shares some maps showing areas where the United States is truly exceptional.

Supernova Condensate notes how nested planetary orbits can be used to trace beautiful spirograph patterns.

Window on Eurasia notes how no one in the Soviet Union in 1991 was prepared to do anything to save the Soviet Union.

Prospect Magazine shares Ivan Rogers' inside perspective on how David Cameron's misunderstanding of the political priorities in the wider EU was (mostly) responsible for the ill-judged decision to hold a referendum on Brexit.

Haaretz shares Oz Katerji's devastating criticism of many left-wing intellectuals for turning a blind eye to genocides they find politically inconvenient. (Noam Chomsky, stand up please.)

Eric Lee suggests that the moderate Menshevik government that ruled Georgia for a few brief years offers insight into a more humanistic way that the Russian Revolution could have taken, over at Open Democracy.

Irena Guidikova suggests that initiatives taken at the level of the cities are most important for the integration of immigrants, that helping them build networks and acquire social capital must be central to any project, over at Open Democracy.

Matt Novak at Gizmodo's Paleofuture notes that, after substantial work, copies of the Voyager Golden Record are finally available for purchase.

At Antipope, Charlie Stross examines the connections between bitcoin production and the alt-right. Could cryptocurrency have seriously bad political linkages?

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait notes GW170680, a recent gravitational wave detection that is both immense in its effect and surprising for its detection being normal.

Centauri Dreams reports on a new study suggesting hot Jupiters are so large because they are heated by their local star.

Crooked Timber counsels against an easy condemnation of baby boomers as uniquely politically malign.

Daily JSTOR notes one paper that takes a look at how the surprisingly late introduction of the bed, as a piece of household technology, changed the way we sleep.

Dangerous Minds shares a 1968 newspaper interview with Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys, talking about Charlie Manson and his family and their influence on him.

The Everyday Sociology Blog takes a look at the opioid epidemic and the way that it is perceived.

At A Fistful of Euros, Alex Harrowell suggests that the unsolvable complexities of Northern Ireland may be enough to avoid a hard Brexit after all.

The LRB Blog describes a visit to a seaside village in Costa Rica where locals and visitors try to save sea turtles.

Lingua Franca reflects on the beauty of the Icelandic language.

The Map Room Blog shares an awesome map depicting the locations of the stars around which we have detected exoplanets.

Marginal Revolution notes the ill health of North Korean defectors, infected with parasites now unseen in South Korea.

Roads and Kingdoms reports on the revival of fonio, a West African grain that is now starting to see successful marketing in Senegal.

Spacing reviews a fascinating book examining the functioning of urban villages embedded in the metropoli of south China.

Strange Company reports on the mysterious 1920 murder of famous bridge player Joseph Bowne Elwell.

Towleroad reports on Larnelle Foster, a gay black man who was a close friend of Meghan Markle in their college years.

Window on Eurasia notes that, although Ukraine suffered the largest number of premature dead in the Stalinist famines of the 1930s, Kazakhstan suffered the greatest proportion of dead.

Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell has a photo essay looking at the Berlin Brandenburg Airport, still years away from completion and beset by many complex failures of its advanced systems. What does the failure of this complex system say about others we may wish to build?

James Bow notes, by way of explaining new fiction he is writing, why a Mercury colony makes sense.

JSTOR Daily notes the life of Anita Brenner, a Mexican-born American Jewish writer who helped connect the two North American neighbours.

Far Outliers' Joel notes the cautious approach of the United States towards famine relief in the young Soviet Union in 1922.

The Frailest Thing's Michael Sacasas shares a brief Lewis Mumford quote, talking about how men became mechanical in spirit before they invented complex machines.

Hornet Stories celebrates the many ways in which the movie Addams Family Values is queer.

Lawyers, Guns and Money considers the idea of what "thoughtfulness" means in relation to Senator Al Franken.

The Map Room Blog shares a few more fantasy map generators.

The NYR Daily considers the thoughtful stamp art of Vincent Sardon.

Progressive Download's John Farrell recommends Adam Rutherford's new book, A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived, on genomics and history.

Towleroad notes that Demi Levato took trans Virginian politician Danica Roem her to the American Music Awards.

Window on Eurasia shares a Tatar cleric's speculation that Russia's undermining of the Tatar language in education might push Tatars away from Russia.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait looks at the remarkably enduring supernova iPTF14hls, which seems to have attained its longevity through massive amounts of antimatter.

blogTO notes plans for the construction of a new public square in Chinatown, on Huron Street.

James Bow shares a short story of his, set in a future where everyone has a guaranteed minimum income but few have a job.

A poster at Crasstalk shares a nostalgic story about long-lost summers as a child in Albuquerque in the 1960s.

Bruce Dorminey reports on Universe, a beautiful book concerned with the history of astronomical imagery.

The Everyday Sociology Blog explores the latent and manifest functions of education for job-seekers.

Far Outliers' Joel talks about the Red Terror imposed by Lenin in 1918, and its foreshadowing of the future of the Soviet Union.

Language Hat links to a lovely analysis of a Tang Chinese poem, "On the Frontier."

Language Log notes how the name of Chinese food "congee" ultimately has origins in Dravidian languages.

Lawyers, Guns and Money takes note of the suspicious timing of links between the Trump family and Wikileaks.

Marginal Revolution's Tyler Cowen recounts his visit to an Amazon bookstore, and what he found lacking (or found good).

The NYR Daily notes the continuing controversy over the bells of the church of Balangiga, in the Philippines, taken as booty in 1901 by American forces and not returned.

The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer wonders why Canadian incomes and productivity have historically been 20-30% lower than those of the United States, and why incomes have lately caught up.

Roads and Kingdoms considers the simple pleasures of an egg and cracker snack in the Faroe Islands.

Strange Company considers the bizarre 1910 murder of Massachusetts lawyer William Lowe Rice.

The Volokh Conspiracy notes an Australian publisher that suspended publication of a book in Australia for fear of negative reaction from China.

Arnold Zwicky shares some photos of his orchids, blooming early because of warm temperatures.

Anthrodendum shares an essay by Yana Stainova talking about restoring a sense of enchantment to ethnography.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait looks at NGTS-1b, a hot Jupiter unusually orbiting a red dwarf star, as does Centauri Dreams.

D-Brief looks at how the relativistic jets of matter issuing from central black holes in active galaxies work.

Hornet Stories notes an upcoming revival of Boys in the Band by Ryan Murphy, with Zachary Quinto and Matt Bomer.

Joe. My. God. notes that 28% of those polled worldwide would favour recriminalizing homosexuality.

Language Hat looks at the role played by Italian dialect in games of bocce.

Marginal Revolution links to a study examining some of the structural economic failings of socialism in Yugoslavia.

Neuroskeptic wonders if there should be a place where people can make use of perfectly good abandoned data sets.

Understanding Society looks at the yawning gap between social science theories and actual policies.

Window on Eurasia notes how above-average immigrant fertility helps keep birth rates up in Moscow.

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[URBAN NOTE] Seven Toronto links

[BLOG] Some Thursday links

[BLOG] Some Monday links

[AH] Five #alternatehistory maps from r/imaginarymaps: UK-Dutch, Patagonias, Virginia, Japan, Europe

[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

[NEWS] Five politics links: Ai Weiwei on China, nuclear weapons, British navy, Venezuela oil, Iran

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[NEWS] Five politics links: Canada, John A. MacDonald, France, Italy, Prague Spring

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