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JSTOR Daily provides advice for users of Zotero and Scrivener, here.

JSTOR Daily looks at instances where product placement in pop culture went badly, here.

JSTOR Daily considers the import of a pioneering study of vulgar language in the context of popular culture studies, here.

JSTOR Daily looks at the--frankly terrible--policies of managing rival heirs in the Ottoman dynasty, here.

JSTOR Daily looks at generational divides on religion in the England of the early Protestant Reformation, here.

Centauri Dreams notes how gas giants on eccentric orbits can easily disrupt bodies on orbits inwards.

Maria Farrell at Crooked Timber suggests that the political culture of England has been deformed by the trauma experienced by young children of the elites at boarding schools.

Dangerous Minds looks at the haunting art of Paul Delvaux.

The Everyday Sociology Blog looks at the work of Tressie McMillan Cottom in investigating for-profit higher education.

Far Outliers looks at Tripoli in 1801.

Gizmodo shares the Boeing design for the moon lander it proposes for NASA in 2024.

io9 shares words from cast of Terminator: Dark Fate about the importance of the Mexican-American frontier.

JSTOR Daily makes a case against killing spiders trapped in one's home.

Language Hat notes a recovered 17th century translation of a Dutch bible into the Austronesian language of Siraya, spoken in Taiwan.

Language Log looks at the origin of the word "brogue".

Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at the payday lender industry.

Marginal Revolution notes a new biography of Walter Raleigh, a maker of empire indeed.

The NYR Daily looks at a new dance show using the rhythms of the words of writer Robert Walser.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel looks at how, in a quantum universe, time and space could still be continuous not discrete.

Strange Company looks at a court case from 1910s Brooklyn, about a parrot that swore.

The Volokh Conspiracy notes an affirmative action court case in which it was ruled that someone from Gibraltar did not count as Hispanic.

Window on Eurasia notes rhetoric claiming that Russians are the largest divided people on the Earth.

Arnold Zwicky looks at lizards and at California's legendary Highway 101.

Sean Marshall considers how recent changes in provincial policy are affecting the Ontario city of Brampton.

There is some interest in the city of Kitchener in deeper integration of the Kitchener-Waterloo region, though not necessarily amalgamation. Global News reports.

The Waterloo Record notes that Waterloo city council has voted unanimously against amalgamation.

Taylor Noakes at CBC Montreal notes that a revived Expos baseball team, whartever its other merits, would not be an economic asset for the city.

Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-Lac, unaccountably, was built on a lakebed regardless of the flooding risks. CBC Montreal reports.

The Detroit Free Press looks at the impressive former home of Patti Smith in suburban St. Clair Shores.

Guardian Cities reports on the upset of residents in Newcastle at a recent claim that their city's high street is the worst one in the United Kingdom.

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.

The City of Mississauga is encouraging residents to take part in a postal campaign to push for independence from Peel Region. Global News reports.

A Montréal city councillor wants the city to try to get a world's fair in 2030. CTV reports.

April Lindgren at The Conversation considersthe important role that local media in Thunder Bay can play in dealing, with, among other issues, Indigenous concerns.

Amy Wilentz considers at The Atlantic whether France, after the devastation of Notre-Dame in Paris, should perhaps contribute to the reconstruction of the cathedral of Port-au-Prince, a decade after its destruction in the earthquake that devastated an already poor ex-French Haiti.

Ben Rogers at Open Democracy makes the case for seeing London, despite its position as a global city, as also a metropolis inextricably at the heart of England, too.

NOW Toronto notes the growth of the far right and of anti-Muslim extremism in Canada.

The Conversation notes how depriving online trolls of platforms is not going to stop their message from spreading.

The Conversation notes how, particularly, the rise of Vox in Spain means that country's language on immigration is set to change.

The SCMP calls on South Korea, facing pronounced population aging and workforce shrinkages, to become more open to immigrants and minorities.

Alan Crawford at Bloomberg argues that Brexit can be traced to the lack of representation of England, specifically, in a federalizing United Kingdom. Who are the English? What do they want?

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.

Science Nordic notes that, in terms of their genetic imprint on indigenous populations, the Vikings had much less of an impact on Anglo-Saxon England than the Anglo-Saxons did on Celtic Britain.

Slate considers why the Spanish flu of 1918 has generally fallen out of popular memory, despite its massive impact at the time.

This David Dobbs article at WIRED looks at how the medical miracle of hand transplantation surgery turned out to be more fraught than many had imagined.

Can strips of wildflowers planted across fields, by restoring natural environments and pest control methods, help modern agriculture? The Guardian reports.

Daniel Hruschka at The Conversation notes that psychological studies which recruit overwhelmingly from subjects in the high-income world do not reflect human nature very well.

The 2023 Jeux de la Francophonie, originally planned for New Brunswick, have been taken up--provisionally--by the Québec city of Sherbrooke. HuffPostQuebec reports.

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.

CityLab notes evidence that natural disasters can indeed advance gentrification, looking at the example of New Orleans.

Guardian Cities shares some cartoons by Carol Adlam about the English city of Nottingham, neither northern nor southern.

Civil servant magazine Apolitical takes a look at how Cape Town managed to escape its threatened water crisis.

CBC reports on childcare costs across Canada, noting how exceptionally low and affordable they are in Québec.

If China withdraws its students studying in Canadian universities from the country in the way Saudi Arabia did its students, the financial impact on many centres of higher education would be significant. Global News reports.

NOW Toronto notes how Doug Ford, surprisingly, has managed to make a mess of the nascent legal cannabis sector of retail.

VICE explains how Europe has largely managed to avoid a fentanyl crisis--Europe's drug dealers have much more of a vested interest in the survival of their clients.

This Open Democracy essay notes how, in the light of the breakdown of Venezuela, this central alliance of China in Latin America is looking increasingly problematic.

This essay at Open Democracy by an anonymous anti-Brexit activist from northern England notes that, in the end, an already vulnerable North is going to have to take responsibility for the Brexit it voted for when catastrophe hits.

DW reports the results of Finland's guaranteed minimum income experiment: Although well-being was improved, recipients did not increase their participation in the labour market.

Curbed looks at what is happening with the proposed new streetcar route connecting Brooklyn and Queens.

Urban farm Grow Calgary has found a new home in the southeast of that city. Global News reports.

The claim of Donald Trump that Texas border city El Paso was a criminalized disaster spinning out of control is, of course, provably wrong. VICE has it.

This Guardian feature shares the responses of readers to an article looking at the decline of the high street of the English city of Sheffield.

CityLab looks at the impact of terrorism on Nairobi, at the growing presence of elements of security theatre on the street and at the targeting of ethnic Somalis in Eastleigh.

The radical queer group Anti-69 opposes this year's proposed theme of Pride Toronto celebrating the 50th anniversary of decriminalization of homosexuality, on the grounds that decriminalization did not go nearly far enough.

The Guardian looks at French director and writer Christophe Honoré, and his efforts to recover the queer memory of HIV/AIDS at its worst in France.

them shares the arguments of author Sarah Schulman that the representation of HIV/AIDS in popular culture, in Rent for instance, not only underplay queer agency and organization but omit stories of queer survival.

Daily Xtra shares the story of Melanie Woods of how Fun Home helped her find herself.

them looks at how Mary Queen of Scots and The Favourite do a great job of sharing stories of queer love and resilience despite the odds from the early modern period.

Bad Astronomer notes a serendipitous photo of two galaxies, one in front of the other, and what this photo reveals about their structures.

Dangerous Minds notes how, and why, Robert Crumb rejected the Rolling Stones and Mick Jagger.

D-Brief notes that every hot Jupiter has clouds on its nightside.

Earther notes that, after a century and a half, iguanas have been reintroduced to the largest island in the Galapagos.

L.M. Sacasas at The Frailest Thing notes how the data self is a shadow of the social self.

Gizmodo shares a stunning photo mosaic by Hubble of the Triangulum Galaxy, third-largest component of the Local Group.

JSTOR Daily takes a look at the story of William Faulkner and his engagement with Hollywood.

Language Log looks at the possibility of outside influence, from other language groups including Indo-European, on a Sinitic word for "milk".

Marginal Revolution links to a London Review of Books article looking at the different national reactions to Brexit from each of the EU-27.

The NYR Daily looks at how Israel is exporting its technologies developed during the occupation of the Palestinians globally.

The Russian Demographics Blog looks at the latest census data on the languages spoken in England.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains why astronomers have not yet been able to locate (or exclude as a possibility) Planet Nine.

Towleroad notes that the homophobia of Bolsonario began to be implemented on his first day as president of Brazil.

Daniel Little at Understanding Society takes a look at some sociological examinations of the research university.

Window on Eurasia notes that many congregations in the west and centre of Ukraine once links to the Russian Orthodox Church have switched to the new Ukrainian Orthodox Church, but that this has not happened in the east.

Arnold Zwicky takes a look at the appearance of a conlang in comics.

Centauri Dreams notes new findings suggesting that low metallicity in stars is linked to the formation of multi-planet systems, including systems with multiple small planets perhaps not unlike Earth.

D-Brief notes that the potentially detectable S1 dark matter stream is heading past the Earth.

Far Outliers reports on a visit of samurai to San Francisco in 1860.

JSTOR Daily notes the wollemi pine of Australia, an ancient tree around in the era of the (non-avian) dinosaurs.

Lawyers, Guns and Money notes yet another instance of the decidedly unimpressive leadership of Donald Trump in office.

Lingua Franca looks at the emergence of an interesting linguistic tic in English, "regular" as in "like a regular William Safire".

Marginal Revolution looks at how government propaganda in Rwanda aimed to minimize ethnic tensions and the salience of ethnic identity seems to have actually worked.

The NYR Daily looks how at the English nationalism that has inspired Brexit is indifferent to the loss of Northern Ireland.

Frank Jacobs at Strange Maps shows how crop data from the United States and Europe can be transformed into abstract art.

Window on Eurasia suggests that Russia is responding to the Ecumenical Patriarchate's recognition of a Ukrainian church by trying to organize a Russian church in its territory of Turkey.

Arnold Zwicky explores the word "teknonymy", "the practice of referring to parents by the names of their children".

This sad SCMP article takes a look at the struggles of North Korean defectors on arriving in South Korea, a competitive society with its own values alien to them.

This Open Democracy book review asks what went wrong in eastern Europe, that illiberalism became so popular. (Of note, I think, is the suggestion that Western definitions have changed substantially since the 1990s.)

The rise, in the person of Bolsonario, of fascism in Brazil is the subject of this stirring Open Democracy feature.

This New York Times opinion piece by an Irish woman living in England touches upon the ways in which Brexiteers' blithe dismissal of Ireland and Irish needs are starting to make many 21st century Irish angry with their eastern neighbour, again.

MacLean's notes how the legalization of marijuana in Canada came about as a consequence of the recognition by Justin Trudeau of the unfairness of the old regime.

Eddie Chong at anthro{dendum} shares a listing of anthropology-relevant links from around the blogosphere.

The Everyday Sociology Blog takes a quick look at the sociology of food.

Joe. My. God. notes that a court ruling making same-sex marriage imaginable has helped an evangelical Christian candidate leap to the front of Costa Rica's presidential elections.

JSTOR Daily explains the import of President's Day to, among others, non-Americans.

Language Hat examines the spelling of the Irish word "imbolc" or "imbolg", used to describe a festival marking the start of spring.

Lawyers, Guns and Money calls for legal enforcement of supply chains for minerals and the like, to ensure that they were not produce through human exploitation (for instance).

Miranda Vane at the LRB Blog introduces her readers to the northern English sport of Cumberland & Westmorland Wrestling.

Marginal Revolution highlights the argument of a commenter who argued that self-driving trucks cannot perform on themselves the tasks that human truckers are expected to. (Yet?)

The NYR Daily examines the transformation of Putin in office from mere oligarch to the world's leading kleptocrat.

Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw celebrates a new Australian satirical newssite, the Betoota Advocate.

At the Planetary Society Blog, Emily Lakdawalla notes new findings suggesting some Kuiper belt objects have huge moons, relatively and absolutely.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel notes that while a powerful laser cannot rip up space literally, it can do pretty remarkable things nonetheless.

Towleroad shares an essay by Cyd Ziegler talking about the importance of gay Atlantis Cruise ships for him, in the light of a scandal onboard a ship involving a fatal drug overdose.

Arnold Zwicky looks at, among other things, tulip trees and magnolias.

National Geographic notes a new study suggesting that a salmonella variant was substantially responsible for a mysterious plague, cocoliztli, that depopulated 16th century Mexico.

Wired reports on a worthy attempt at environmental engineering in the United Kingdom, an attempt to build a coast-to-coast forest in northern England.

National Observer notes that the government of Canada is preparing funding for higher-risk clean power technologies including geothermal and tidal energy.

Universe Today's Matt Williams notes a new study, drawing from LIGO data, determining that at their most massive non-rotating neutron stars can only have 2.16 solar masses.

Matt Williams at Universe Today observes the detection of a stellar-mass black hole candidate in the heart of globular cluster NGC 3201. It's not an intermediate-mass black hole, but it's something!

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait shares a stunning photo of two galaxies colliding in the eternal night and considers the implications of the Milky Way's future encounter with Andromeda.

Centauri Dreams looks at the latest discoveries regarding FRB 121102 and fast radio bursts generally.

Hornet Stories suggests that a recent ruling by the Inter American Court of Human Rights sets the stage for marriage equality across Latin America.

Inkfish notes that the biomass of dead squid mothers plays a major role in the environments and ecologies of seafloors.

JSTOR Daily suggests retirees can actually learn a lot from the lifestyles of members of the RV--recreational vehicle--community.

Language Hat reports on wordplay, and its translations, in the works of Homer.

Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the turn to anti-intellectualism among American conservatives.

At Lingua Franca, William Germano talks about telling numbers.

The LRB Blog notes the story of the English village of Imber, intentionally depopulated by the British military during the Second World War and never allowed to be restored.

The NYR Daily talks about a London exhibition on the art of our era of terrorism and terror.

The Planetary Society Blog reports on the latest Juno discoveries from Jupiter.

Progressive Download's John Farrell reports on a debate as to whether the origin of life is a more difficult question than the origin of consciousness.

Roads and Kingdoms reports on the simple pleasures of an iced coffee enjoyed in the Australian Outback.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel U>considers an interesting question: is ours the only advanced civilization in the universe?

Understanding Society's Daniel Little tackles the concept of organizational cultures.

Window on Eurasia suggests that post-1991 immigrants from the former Soviet Union form a tenth of the Russian labour force.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait answers the question of why asteroids tend to explode high in atmosphere.

Centauri Dreams carries Keith Cooper's suggestion that METI activists should wait until the first generation of detailed exoplanet investigations give an idea as to what is out there before they begin transmitting.

The Crux notes how indigenous peoples in Guyana use drones to defend their land claims.

JSTOR Daily summarizes an article on the sexually radical and politically progressive Kansas freethinkers, subject even to death threats.

The Everyday Sociology Blog considers the question of who benefits from automotion in early 21st century society.

Far Outliers notes how, in the Second World War, American missionaries also became interrogators thanks to their knowledge.

The Frailest Thing's Michael Sacasas, linking to an article on #elsagate, notes how many video creators were making content not for human audiences but rather to please YouTube algorithms.

Language Log deals with one manifestation of the controversy over the use of "they" as a gender-neutral first-person singular pronoun.

Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the terribly suspicious denial of anti-Semitism from Roy Moore's wife. Alabamans, vote against this man.

The LRB Blog shares Gill Partington's examination of some modern art exhibits dealing with the mechanics of reading.

Russell Darnley of maximos62 examines how Human Rights Day, celebrating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights signed on 10 December 1948, is not the only important date in international human rights history.

The NYR Daily notes how Donald Trump's actions have only worsened the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Cheri Lucas Rowlands shares beautiful photos from a visit to England.

Spacing shares an article by Sean Ruthen examining the dynamic difference of the different cities of Italy, based on the author's recent trip there.
Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel looks at how young massive black hole J1342+0928 poses a challenge.

Window on Eurasia notes how the main demographic challenges for the Baltic States these days are not so much ethnic conflicts but rather population aging and emigration.

Arnold Zwicky takes a look at timeless similarities between classics of homoerotic art and modern-day gay photography. NSFW, obviously.

A new housing policy in Vancouver will focus, among other things, on underused and housing in well-off neighbourhoods. Global News reports.

Can Edmonton's Accidental Beach survive? Maybe, if federal regulation and the ever-shifting waters of the North Saskatchewan River permit. Global News reports.

Daily JSTOR links to a collection of articles explaining just how the Oregon city of Portland became a hipster mecca, here.

Alec Charles' examination of the English city of Hull, a British City of Culture that is not only marginalized from mainstream Britain but at odds with the world (strongly pro-Brexit and all), is provocative. The article is here.

Politico.eu notes how the failure of central and eastern European cities to pick up new EU agencies after Brexit underlines, for many, their continuing marginalization in Europe.

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[BLOG] Five JSTOR Daily links (@jstor_daily)

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

[URBAN NOTE] Seven city links: Brampton, Kitchener, Waterloo, Montréal, Sainte-Marte, Detroit ...

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

[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Mississauga, Montréal, Thunder Bay, Port-au-Prince, London

[NEWS] Five politics links: alt-right in Canada, Spain, South Korea, England

[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

[NEWS] Five science links: Vikings vs Anglo Saxons, Spanish flu, medicine, flowers & farms, psych

[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Sherbrooke, New York City, New Orleans, Nottingham, Cape Town

[NEWS] Seven politics links: childcare, China in Canada, drugs, Venezuela, Brexit, Finland

[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Brooklyn and Queens, Calgary, El Paso, Sheffield, Nairobi

[NEWS] Five LGBTQ links: Pride Toronto, Christophe Honoré, Sarah Schulman, HIV/AIDS, Fun Home, movie

[BLOG] Some Thursday links

[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

[NEWS] Some international links: Koreas, eastern Europe, Brazil, Ireland and England, Canada

[BLOG] Some Sunday links

[NEWS] Five science links: cocoliztli in Mexico, English forest, geothermal and tidal, space science

[BLOG] Some Thursday links

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

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