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• The rescue of cats from the Newfoundland outport of Little Bay Islands, now abandoned, was a success. Global News reports.


• Cats in Australia may be in a position to ravage vulnerable survivors of the wildfires. Wired reports.


• The Purrsong Pendant is a new fitness tracker for cats. CNET reports.


• Humans do need to be able to read the body language of cats, and not only to figure out when they are in pain. CP24 reports.


• Is anyone surprised cats might eat human corpses? Newsweek reports.

• Some of the apartments hit by the Gosford apartment fire have been repaired and opened to their tenants again. Global News reports.


• Steve Munro maps the 70 O'Connor bus route in action as a case study, here.


• Condo developers have created the new neighbourhood of "West St. Clair West" out of, among other established neighbourhoods, Carleton Village. blogTO reports.


• The plans for the controversial new Pharrell Williams condo development at Yonge and Eglinton look interesting. blogTO shares.


• Should Toronto have free public mass transit? NOW Toronto makes the case.


• Brian Doucet at Spacing Toronto takes a look at the Toronto CLRV streetcars in their North American context, here.


• The repeated flooding of the Toronto Islands, as NOW Toronto points out, surely demonstrates the reality of climate change for Toronto.

• JSTOR Daily considers whether koalas are actually going extinct, here.


• JSTOR Daily looks at the life and accomplishments of Alexander Von Humboldt, here.


• JSTOR Daily looks at how a move to California doomed the Oneida Community, here.


• JSTOR Daily considers how the genetically diverse wild relatives of current crops could help our agriculture, here.


• JSTOR Daily looks at the devastating flood of Florence in 1966, here.


• JSTOR Daily points out there is no template for emotional intelligence, here.


• JSTOR Daily explores some remarkable lumpy pearls, here.


• JSTOR Daily notes an 1870 scare over the future of men, here.


• JSTOR Daily reports on the staging of war scenes for the 1945 documentary The Battle of San Pietro, here.


• JSTOR Daily considers the bioethics of growing human brains in a petri dish, here.

• 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.

• Climate change is playing a major role in the wildfires of California. Are we now in the Fire Age? Global News considers.


• The new normal of the Arctic Ocean is to be ice-free. Global News reports.


• Plants first reached land through unexpected horizontal gene transfers. CBC reports.


• Zebra mussels have made it to the Lake of the Woods. Global News reports.


• An artificial leaf that turns carbon dioxide into usable fuel is a remarkable technology. Universe Today reports.


• Earth once hosted nine human species; now it has one. What happened? National Pot considers.


• Thanks to better medical care and preventative measures, people have longer healthy lifespans than ever before. Global News reports.

• Antipope's Charlie Stross has a thought experiment: If you were superwealthy and guaranteed to live a long health life, how would you try to deal with the consequence of economic inequality?


• Vikas Charma at Architectuul takes a look at the different factors that go into height in buildings.


• Bad Astronomy notes S5-HVS1, a star flung out of the Milky Way Galaxy by Sagittarius A* at 1755 kilometres per second.


• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly shares photos from two Manhattan walks of hers, taken in non-famous areas.


• Centauri Dreams looks at habitability for red dwarf exoplanets. Stellar activity matters.


• Maria Farrell at Crooked Timber shares words from a manifesto about data protection in the EU.


• Dangerous Minds shares photos from Los Angeles punks and mods and others in the 1980s.


• Bruce Dorminey notes a ESA report suggesting crew hibernation could make trips to Mars easier.


• Gizmodo notes that the Hayabusa2 probe of Japan is returning from asteroid Ryugu with a sample.


• Imageo shares photos of the disastrous fires in Australia from space.


• Information is Beautiful reports on winners of the Information is Beautiful Awards for 2019, for good infographics.


• JSTOR Daily explains how local television stations made the ironic viewing of bad movies a thing.


• Kotaku reports on the last days of Kawasaki Warehouse, an arcade in Japan patterned on the demolished Walled City of Kowloon.


• Language Hat notes how translation mistakes led to the star Beta Cygni gaining the Arabic name Albireo.


• Language Log reports on a unique Cantonese name of a restaurant in Hong Kong.


• Robert Farley at Lawyers, Guns and Money links to an analysis of his suggesting the military of India is increasingly hard-pressed to counterbalance China.


• The LRB Blog notes the catastrophe of Venice.


• Marginal Revolution notes a paper suggesting states would do well not to place their capitals too far away from major population centres.


• Justin Petrone at North! remarks on a set of old apple preserves.


• The NYR Daily looks at how the west and the east of the European Union are divided by different conceptions of national identity.


• Jim Belshaw at Personal Reflections reports from his town of Armidale as the smoke from the Australian wildfires surrounds all. The photos are shocking.


• Emily Lakdawalla at the Planetary Society Blog lists some books about space suitable for children.


• Drew Rowsome reviews the Canadian film music stand, inspired by the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike.


• The Russian Demographics Blog shares a paper noting that, in Switzerland, parenthood does not make people happy.


• The Signal notes that 1.7 million phone book pages have been scanned into the records of the Library of Congress.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains the concept of multi-messenger astronomy and why it points the way forward for studies of astrophysics.


• Strange Maps looks at how a majority of students in the United States attend diverse schools, and where.


• Strange Company explores the mysterious death of Marc-Antoine Calas, whose death triggered the persecution of Huguenots and resulted in the mobilization of Enlightenment figures like Voltaire against the state. What happened?


• Towleroad hosts a critical, perhaps disappointed, review of the major gay play The Inheritance.


• Understanding Society's Daniel Little looks at the power of individual people in political hierarchies.


• Window on Eurasia shares an opinion piece noting how many threats to the Russian language have come from its association with unpopular actions by Russia.


• Arnold Zwicky explores queens as various as Elizabeth I and Adore Delano.

• Urban Toronto looked at indigenous uses being proposed for the West Don Lands, here.


• That Toronto has become a major hub for Shopify is a significant economic factor. Global News reports.


• There will be an emergency exercise held at Union Station. Global News reports.


• Transit Toronto notes the opening of a new York Regional Transit bus hub at the Vaughan Metropolitan Centre.


• Transit Toronto shared video of a recent TTC public art project, "A Streetcar Called Toronto", here.


• Venerable Toronto movie rental store Videoflicks will be closing. blogTO reports.


• The Evergreen Brickworks in the Don Valley will be hosting a winter village this season. blogTO reports.

• Bad Astronomy notes a new detailed study suggesting that asteroid Hygeia is round. Does this mean it is a dwarf planet?


• The Buzz notes that the Toronto Public Library has a free booklet on the birds of Toronto available at its branches.


• Crooked Timber looks forward to a future, thanks to Trump, without the World Trade Organization.


• D-Brief notes how the kelp forests off California were hurt by unseasonal heat and disease.


• Bruce Dorminey notes an impending collision of supergalactic clusters.


• Karen Sternheimer at the Everyday Sociology Blog looks at how judgement can complicate collective action.


• Language Hat looks at the different definitions of the word "mobile".

Language Log looks at the deep influence of the Persian language upon Marathi.
https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=44807

• Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns and Money notes how, if anything, climate scientists make conservative claims about their predictions.


• Marginal Revolution wonders if planned power outages are a good way to deal with the threat of wildfires in California.


• The NYR Daily looks at the ethnic cleansing being enabled by Turkey in Kurdish Syria.


• Corey S. Powell at Out There interviews archeologist Arthur Lin about his use of space-based technologies to discovery traces of the past.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer looks at the staggering inequality in Chile, driver of the recent protests.


• At Roads and Kingdoms, Anthony Elghossain reports from the scene of the mass protests in Lebanon.


• Drew Rowsome tells how his balcony garden fared this year.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel looks at stellar generations in the universe. (Our sun is a third-generation star.)


• Strange Company looks at the murder of a girl five years old in Indiana in 1898. Was the neighbor boy twelve years old accused of the crime the culprit?


• Denis Colombi at Une heure de peine takes a look at social mobility in France.


• Understanding Society's Daniel Little considers economic historians and their study of capitalism.


• Window on Eurasia looks at the pro-Russian policies of the Moldova enclave of Gagauzia, and draws recommendations for Ukraine re: the Donbas.

• 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.