A Bit More Detail

Church and Wellesley bar Woody's has taken advantage of the CaféTO program, setting up tables on sidewalks and parking areas to make up for the inaccessibility of its interior spaces. The barriers protecting the street spaces of Woody's were painted with images of the bar's rhinoceros, each one with different colours and patterns.

(A day late, I know; I crashed after work yesterday.)

• 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.