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The current coronavirus pandemic in Canada and the wider world has made me think of a few things. One of these is the apparently overlooked story "So Near the Touch", the story in the first annual of the second DC Comics run of Star Trek comics published in July 1990.

Co-written by George Takei and Peter David (different sources suggest that Takei provided the story), "So Near the Touch" is centered on the world of Datugan, a Federation trading partner that was so eager to export an energy-generating ore that it irremediably polluted its environment. The very people of Datugan have been so contaminated by pollution that two individuals cannot risk bodily contact, else they self-combust. They are doomed.

The Federation, feeling some responsibility for this catastrophe, has initiated a grand project of rebirth, to use in vitro techniques to let the Datugan species continue on a clean new world. The Enterprise-A is assigned to escort a medical team lead by one Corazon Kohwangko to Datugan to help start off this project. Sulu, who has a romantic history with Kohwangko, is pleased to be reunited with her. On arrival at Datugan, the mission encounters unexpected trouble from Datugans opposed to this program.

"So Near the Touch" is an effective short story, setting a credible romance for Sulu with an interesting partner against the backdrop of a dying world with people desperate for help. (Reading this now gives me some insight into Takei's upset with the movies' portrayal of Sulu as gay; here, Takei literally wrote Sulu as straight.) I find that it resonates particularly with me now, living under conditions of COVID-19 quarantine, deprived of direct contact with anyone for fear of infection. Takei and David got the corrosive impacts of isolation quite nicely.

The physical issue is available on eBay, while electronic copies can be acquired from the usual places.

Bad Astronomy's Phil Plait shares a stunning photo taken by a friend of the Pleiades star cluster.

The Buzz, at the Toronto Public Library, shares a collection of books suitable for World Vegan Month, here.

Henry Farrell at Crooked Timber considers, with an eye towards China and the Uighurs, how panopticon attempts can stray badly on account of--among other things--false assumptions.

Gizmodo considers how antimatter could end up providing interesting information about the unseen universe.

Joe. My. God. reports from New York City, where new HIV cases are dropping sharply on account of PrEP.

JSTOR Daily shares a vintage early review of Darwin's Origin of Species.

Language Hat examines the origins of the semicolon, in Venice in 1494.

Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns and Money shares a critical report of the new Jill Lepore book These Truths.

The LRB Blog reports from the Museum of Corruption in Kyiv, devoted to the corruption of the ancient regime in Ukraine.

Marginal Revolution shares a new history of the Lakota.

The NYR Daily looks at the photography of Duane Michals.

The Russian Demographics Blog looks at population trends in Russia, still below 1991 totals in current frontiers.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains why some of the lightest elements, like lithium, are so rare.

Window on Eurasia shares the opinion of a Russian historian that Eastern Europe is back as a geopolitical zone.

Arnold Zwicky considers Jacques Transue in the light of other pop culture figures and trends.

Work on the second stage of Ion expansion, south into Cambridge, will not even start until 2028, and is expected to cost at least $C 1.36 billion. Global News reports.

This proposal for regular two-way GO Transit rail connections between Toronto and Kitchener-Waterloo, frankly, is desperately needed. The Record reports.

A cyclist faces charges for careless driving leading to a collision with a LRT in Kitchener. CBC reports.

A GoFundMe campaign for a woman hit by a train in Kitchener has raised more than $C14 thousand. The Record reports.

A school bus driver has been charged for stopping his vehicle dangerously close to a rail crossing in Cambridge. The Record reports.

Waterloo Region is a successful testbed for virtual doctor visits. The Record reports.

The Charles Street bus terminal in downtown Kitchener is not going to be redeveloped for at least a couple of years. The Record reports.

Waterloo Region hopes to create more than 600 affordable new homes, in five developments, over the next decade. CBC reports.

The number of single food bank users in Kitchener-Waterloo has doubled over the past five years. CBC reports.

Waterloo is spending $C 3 million to renovate and modernize a handsome old Carnegie Library. CBC reports.

A pop-up in Kitchener, Vivid Dreams, is charging customers up to $C 20 to use one of a dozen backgrounds for their Instagram photos. CBC reports.

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The new digital lab at the Kitchener Public Library sounds great! The Record reports.

Andrew Coppolino at CBC Kitchener-Waterloo takes a look at some of the different cuisines and restaurants in Waterloo Region featuring noodles, here.

Andrew Coppolino at CBC Kitchener-Waterloo looks at the pastel de nata, the Portuguese egg custard, as an emerging commercial snack in Waterloo Region.

Bad Astronomy's Phil Plait looks at Abell 30, a star that has been reborn in the long process of dying.

Centauri Dreams uses the impending launch of LightSail 2 to discuss solar sails in science fiction.

John Quiggin at Crooked Timber, as part of a series of the fragility of globalization, considers if migration flows can be reversed. (He concludes it unlikely.)

The Crux considers if the record rain in the Midwest (Ontario, too, I would add) is a consequence of climate change.

D-Brief notes that the failure of people around the world to eat enough fruits and vegetables may be responsible for millions of premature dead.

Dangerous Minds introduces readers to gender-bending Italian music superstar Renato Zero.

Dead Things notes how genetic examinations have revealed the antiquity of many grapevines still used for wine.

Gizmodo notes that the ocean beneath the icy crust of Europa may contain simple salt.

io9 tries to determine the nature of the many twisted timelines of the X-Men movie universe of Fox.

JSTOR Daily observes that the Stonewall Riots were hardly the beginning of the gay rights movement in the US.

Language Log looks at the mixed scripts on a bookstore sign in Beijing.

Dave Brockington at Lawyers, Guns, and Money argues that Jeremy Corbyn has a very strong hold on his loyal followers, perhaps even to the point of irrationality.

Marginal Revolution observes that people who create public genetic profiles for themselves also undo privacy for their entire biological family.

Sean Marshall at Marshall's Musings shares a photo of a very high-numbered street address, 986039 Oxford-Perth Road in Punkeydoodle's Corners.

The NYR Daily examines the origins of the wealth of Lehman Brothers in the exploitation of slavery.

The Planetary Society Blog shares a panorama-style photo of the Apollo 11 Little West Crater on the Moon.

Drew Rowsome notes that classic documentary Paris Is Burning has gotten a makeover and is now playing at TIFF.

Peter Rukavina, writing from a trip to Halifax, notes the convenience of the Eduroam procedures allowing users of one Maritime university computer network to log onto another member university's network.

Dylan Reid at Spacing considers how municipal self-government might be best embedded in the constitution of Canada.

The Speed River Journal's Van Waffle pays tribute to the wildflower Speedwell, a name he remembers from Watership Down.

Strange Maps shares a crowdsourced map depicting which areas of Europe are best (and worst) for hitchhikers.

Window on Eurasia notes the distribution of native speakers of Russian, with Israel emerging as more Russophone than some post-Soviet states.

Architectuul notes the recent death of I.M. Pei.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait notes what, exactly, rubble-pile asteroids are.

The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly writes about definitions of home.

Centauri Dreams considers white dwarf planets.

The Crux notes how ultra-processed foods are liked closely to weight gain.

D-Brief observes that a thin layer of insulating ice might be saving the subsurface oceans of Pluto from freezing out.

Bruce Dorminey notes the critical role played by Apollo 10 in getting NASA ready for the Moon landings.

The Dragon's Tales notes the American government's expectation that China will seek to set up its own global network of military bases.

Andrew LePage at Drew Ex Machina reports on the Soviet Union's Venera 5 and 6 missions to Venus.

Far Outliers looks at the visit of U.S. Grant to Japan and China.

Gizmodo notes a recent analysis of Neanderthal teeth suggesting that they split with Homo sapiens at a date substantially earlier than commonly believed.

io9 notes the sheer scale of the Jonathan Hickman reboots for the X-Men comics of Marvel.

Joe. My. God. shares the argument of Ted Cruz that people should stop making fun of his "space pirate" suggestion.I am inclined to think Cruz more right than not, actually.

JSTOR Daily notes the wave of anti-black violence that hit the United States in 1919, often driven by returned veterans.

Language Hat shares a recognizable complaint, written in ancient Akkadian, of bad customers.

Language Log shares a report of a village in Brittany seeking people to decipher a mysterious etching.

This Scott Lemieux report at Lawyers, Guns and Money about how British conservatives received Ben Shapiro is a must-read summary.

Benjamin Markovits at the LRB Blog shares the reasons why he left his immigrant-heavy basketball team in Germany.

Marginal Revolution looks at one effort in Brazil to separate people from their street gangs.

The NYR Daily looks at how ISIS, deprived of its proto-state, has managed to thrive as a decentralized network.

Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw tells of his experiences and perceptions of his native region of New England, in southeastern Australia.

The Planetary Society Blog notes how the Chang'e 4 rover may have found lunar mantle on the surface of the Moon.

The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer notes that while Argentine president Mauricio Macri is polling badly, his opponents are not polling well.

Roads and Kingdoms shares a list of things to do in see in the Peru capital of Lima.

The Signal examines how the Library of Congress engages in photodocumentation.

Van Waffle at the Speed River Journal explains how he is helping native insects by planting native plants in his garden.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel notes how scientific illiteracy should never be seen as cool.

Towleroad notes the questions of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as to why Truvada costs so much in the United States.

Window on Eurasia notes how family structures in the North Caucasus are at once modernizing and becoming more conservative.

Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell notes how the distribution of US carriers and their fleets at present does not support the idea of a planned impending war with Iran.

Arnold Zwicky examines the tent caterpillar of California.

Leo Mantha, the last man executed in British Columbia in 1959, was executing for killing his estranged lover. Was homophobia the cause of what was, even then, a unique lack of mercy? Global News considers.

Brian D. Johnson at MacLean's, reviewing Killing Patient Zero, notes how the openness of Gaëtan Dugas about his sexual past was one feature that led him to be unfairly branded Patient Zero, cause of the HIV/AIDS crisis.

This invaluable Justin Ling AMA at reddit's unresolvedmysteries about the Church-Wellesley serial killings, besides exposing the accidents that led police not following up on reports, highlights a historic worldwide pattern of rage-filled killing sprees against queer people.

Shaun Brodie at NOW Toronto pays tribute to the late, great writer Wayson Choy.

CTV News reports that the Québec National Assembly has extended official recognition of the historic importance of the Village gay of Montréal.

Phys.org links to a study suggesting that countries which extend civil rights to LGBTQ people experience higher economic growth as a result.

Peter Mendelsohn at Daily Xtra looks at homophobia in Canadian hockey, a factor that deters many queer people from playing the sport. Can it be easily dealt with?

Erica Lenti at Daily Xtra has a fantastic article looking at how gay-straight alliances at schools help young people learn how to be queer in a safe environment, providing them with the socialization they do not get elsewhere.

This lovely essay by wedding photographer Dana Koster at them explores, in general and in a specific example, the miracle and joys of legal same-sex marriage.

Elio Iannacci at Daily Xtra writes, in the wake of the Met gala, about the specifically queer nature of camp.

MacLean's notes the controversy surrounding claims of a remarkable find of fossils dating from the very moment, nearly, of the Chixculub impact 66 million years ago.

Wired looks at how genetically manipulated phages can be used to treat infectious diseases untreatable by antibiotics.

Universe Today notes the usefulness of algae in life-support systems for long-duration crewed missions.

Evan Gough at Universe Today notes the need to come up with a system capable of ensuring the sustainable development of space.

Corey S Powell writes at Discover about new technologies that could conceivably be used for rapid interstellar flight, and about stepping-stone targets worth noting as we work up to the stars.

Crooked Timber at John Quiggin takes issue with the idea that, now, there are many Republicans who accept Trump only conditionally, for what a Trump presidency could achieve.

D-Brief notes the XT2 signal, issue of a collision between two magnetars in a galaxy 6.6 billion light-years away.

Cody Delistraty reports on an exhibit at the Institut du monde arabe in Paris on the history of soccer in world politics.

Earther reports on a new satellite mission focused on studying solar-induced fluorescence, the glow of plants as they photosynthesize.

Far Outliers notes how U.S. Grant responded to slaves seeking freedom from the Union Army.

JSTOR Daily explores Lake Baikal.

Language Log reports on the multilingualism of Pete Buttigieg.

Abigail Nussbaum at Lawyers, Guns and Money gives deserved praise to the Jason Lutes graphic novel Berlin.

Marginal Revolution looks at the ways in which dense social networks can keep stroke victims from getting quick help.

The NYR Daily looks at the campaigns and ideas of anti-authoritarian Chinese professor and writer Xu Zhangrun.

Drew Rowsome gives a largely negative review to the 2014 Easter horror film The Beaster Bunny.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains why the singularities of black holes have spin.

Window on Eurasia notes on the report of a Muslim community leader in Norilsk that a quarter of the population of that Russian Arctic city is of Muslim background.

Arnold Zwicky considers the ways in which flowers and penguins and cuteness can interact, with photos.

Bad Astronomy notes how the occultation of distant stars by nearby asteroids can help astronomers determine stars' size.

D-Brief notes the remarkable achievements of some scientists in reviving the brains of pigs hours after their death.

Dangerous Minds takes a look at how David Bowie got involved in The Man Who Fell To Earth.

Dead Things looks at the recent identification of the late Cretaceous dinosaur Gobihadros.

Bruce Dorminey notes that astronomers have determined an interstellar meteorite likely hit the Earth in 2014.

Gizmodo reports on a very dim L-dwarf star 250 light-years away, ULAS J224940.13−011236.9, that experienced a massive flare. How did it do it?

Hornet Stories shares some vintage photos of same-sex couples from generations ago being physically affectionate.

At The Island Review, Nancy Forde writes about motherhood and her experience on Greenland, in the coastal community of Ilulissat.

JSTOR Daily notes how Paris' Notre-Dame has always been in a process of recreation.

Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns, and Money notes the continuing oppression of workers in Bangladesh.

The LRB Blog notes the flaws in the defense, and in the political thinking, of Julian Assange. (Transparency is not enough.)

The NYR Daily reports on how photographer Claudia Andujar has regarded the Yanomami as they face existential challenges.

The Planetary Society Blog traces the crash of Beresheet on the Moon to a software conflict.

Ilya Somin at the Volokh Conspiracy warns against the idea of inevitable moral progress.

Window on Eurasia notes the desires of some Russian conservatives to see Russia included in a European Union dominated by neo-traditionalists.

JSTOR Daily notes how early doctors used to party with drugs as a matter of course.

JSTOR Daily notes the experiences of horses and donkeys in the US Civil War.

JSTOR Daily notes how the disaster of the Bay of Pigs changed the decision-making of JFK.

JSTOR Daily notes how early 19th century American Jews made use of raisin wine in Passover, and how this changed.

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D-Brief notes the discovery of a fossil of a four-limbed whale in Peru, dating 42.5 million years.

D-Brief looks at how the bacterium Enterococcus faecalis morphed from normal gut bacteria to potentially fatal hospital-borne infection.

D-Brief notes a proposal to build offshore platforms as habitat for fish and for birds.

D-Brief notes how the Falcon Heavy is proving itself a vanguard of progress in spaceflight.

D-Brief notes new evidence of there having been multiple regional populations of Denisovans, drawing from work in Indonesia.

Architectuul profiles the construction of the Modern Berlin Temple built to a design by Mies van der Rohe in 1968.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait notes the beauty of galaxy M61.

D-Brief notes new evidence that Mars sustained rivers on its surface at a surprising late date.

Gizmodo notes a theory that the oddly shaped ring moons of Saturn might be product of a collision.

Hornet Stories suggests/u> that recent raids on gay bars in New Orleans might be driven by internecine politics within the LGBTQ community.

Joe. My. God. notes that a court in the Cayman Islands has recently legalized same-sex marriage there.

JSTOR Daily looks at the origins of the Chipko activists of 1960s and 1970s India, whose tree-hugging helped save forests there.

Language Log notes the story of Beau Jessep, who got rich off of a business creating English names for Chinese children.

Scott Lemieux at Lawyers, Guns and Money, looking at the introduction of public healthcare in Saskatchewan and wider Canada, notes the great institutional differences that do not make that a close model for public healthcare in the US now.

Marginal Revolution links to a paper examining the close relationship over time between population growth and economic and technological change.

Roads and Kingdoms interviews documentary filmmaker Nadir Bouhmouch about a Amazigh community's resistance to an intrusive mine on their territory.

The Russian Demographics Blog notes, correctly, that one reason why Ukrainians are more prone to emigration to Europe and points beyond than Russians is that Ukraine has long been included, in whole or in part, in European states.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel notes that we still do not know why antimatter does not dominate in our universe.

Understanding Society features a guest post from Indian sociologist V.K. Ramachandran talking about two visits four decades apart to one of his subjects.

Vintage Space makes a compelling case for people not to be afraid of nuclear rockets in space, like the vintage never-deployed NERVA.

Window on Eurasia takes issue with the bilingual radio programs aired in Russian republics, which subtly undermine local non-Russian languages.

Arnold Zwicky starts with lilacs, which include hybrids tolerant of the California climate, and goes on to explore lavender in all of its glories, queer and otherwise.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait argues that the new American plan to put people on the Moon in 2024 is unlikely to succeed in that timeframe.

The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly considers whether or not women should travel alone, for safety reasons. (That choice is one I've not had to make myself, thanks to my male privilege; I'm very sorry others have to consider this.)

Centauri Dreams shares the thinking of Gregory Benford on Lurkers, self-replicating probes produced by another civilization not signaling their existence to Earth.

Maria Farrell at Crooked Timber argues that policy-making these days is often fundamentally ill-conceived, closing off possibilities for the future.

The Crux notes the remarkable powers of beet juice, as a tonic for athletes for instance.

D-Brief looks at the slot canyons of Titan, bearing similarities in structure and perhaps origin to like structures in Utah.

Andrew LePage at Drew Ex Machina, celebrating five years of blogging, links to his ten most popular posts.

Gizmodo notes the creation for a list of nearly two thousand nearby stars that the TESS planet-hunter might target for a search for Earth-like worlds.

Joe. My. God. notes that the Austrian president has confirmed the New Zealand shooter has made a financial donation to a far-right group in Austria.

JSTOR Daily looks at Inge Lehmann, the scientist who determined the nature of the inner core of the Earth.

Language Hat reports on a new scholarly publication, hundreds of pages long, gathering together the curses and profanities of the Middle East and North Africa.

Scott Lemieux at Lawyers, Guns and Money does not seem impressed by the argument of Mike Lee that pronatalism is a good response to global warming.

The Map Room Blog notes the impressive maps of Priscilla Spencer, created for fantasy books.

Marginal Revolution links to a paper that examines the positions of Jews in the economies of eastern Europe, as a "rural service minority".

The Russian Demographics Blog links to a paper noting the ways in which increased human development has, and has not, led to convergence in family structures around the world.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains how, despite the expanding universe, we can still see very distant points.

Frank Jacobs at Strange Maps reports on the recent mistakes made by Google Maps in Japan.

Yorkshire Ranter Alexander Harrowell explains why the United Kingdom, after Brexit, does not automatically become a member of the European Economic Area.

Arnold Zwicky takes a look at the different factors, often unrecognized, going onto the formation of nonsense names, like those of the characters from Lilo and Stitch.

Wired reports on the daunting scale of the Venezuela power failure, and the sheer difficulty of restoring the network.

The Inter Press Service looks at the possibility for Argentina to enjoy improved agricultural circumstances come climate change.

CBC reports on how artificial intelligences can be used to create frightfully plausible fake news.

Axios notes the sheer density of information that Google has on its users.

CityLab reports on the policies hopeful presidential candidate Pete Buttegieg would bring in relating to the automation of work.

Wired takes a look at the second reported HIV cure and what it means.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait notes how the dinosaurs seem to have been killed off 65 million years ago by a combination of geological and astronomical catastrophes.

Centauri Dreams examines Kepler 1658b, a hot Jupiter in a close orbit around an old star.

The Crux reports on the continuing search for Planet Nine in the orbits of distant solar system objects.

D-Brief notes how researchers have begun to study the archaeological records of otters.

Cody Delistraty profiles author and journalist John Lanchester.

Far Outliers reports on the terrible violence between Hindus and Muslims preceding partition in Calcutta.

L.M. Sacasas at The Frailest Thing suggests the carnival of the online world, full of hidden work, is actually an unsatisfying false carnival.

Hornet Stories reports that São Paulo LGBTQ cultural centre and homeless shelter Casa 1 is facing closure thanks to cuts by the homophobic new government.

io9 reports on one fan's attempt to use machine learning to produce a HD version of Deep Space Nine.

JSTOR Daily takes a look at the increasing trend, at least in the United States and the United Kingdom, to deport long-term residents lacking sufficiently secure residency rights.

Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at the literally medieval epidemics raging among the homeless of California.

Marginal Revolution considers how the Book of Genesis can be read as a story of increasing technology driving improved living standards and economic growth.

The NYR Daily interviews Lénaïg Bredoux about #MeToo in France.

The Planetary Society Blog considers the subtle differences in colour between ice giants Uranus and Neptune, one greenish and the other a blue, and the causes of this difference.

The Speed River Journal's Van Waffle shares beautiful photos of ice on a stream as he talks about his creative process.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel considers what the universe was like back when the Earth was forming.

Window on Eurasia reports on a statement made by the government of Belarus that the survival of the Belarusian language is a guarantor of national security.

Arnold Zwicky was kind enough to share his handout for the semiotics gathering SemFest20.

The nearly forty million dollars of federal government investment promised for PEI biotech firm Biovectra is a substantial investment indeed. The Guardian reports.

The Guardian reports the reunification of a family of Syrian refugees on the Island.

Peter Rukavina notes and explains the significant differences, cultural and religious, between the neighbouring PEI communities of Crapaud and Kinkora.

The western PEI community of Alberton, faced with doctor shortages, has been experimenting with telehealth. The National Post explains.

CBC Prince Edward Island reports on Jed Mackay, an Islander currently writing for Marvel's Daredevil.

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.

CBC reports on how Ottawa is storing its ever-growing mountain of snow removed from its streets.

The city of Kingston, Ontario, is facing a growing shortage of family doctors despite it being a regional hub. Global News reports.

The centenary of anti-Chinese riots in Halifax has just passed. (Would you believe I never learned of these at school?) Global News reports.

VICE tells the story of how most people can, or cannot, afford to live in an ever-pricier city of Chicago.

The SCMP reports on the "Greater Bay Area" plan just announced by China, an integration of the Pearl River area into a single global powerhouse. How will Hong Kong fit into this?

The brains of deaf babies process information differently from the brains of their hearing counterparts. D-Brief reports.

Do the bacteria inhabiting the human gut have a connection to the likelihood of an individual developing schizophrenia? D-Brief reports.

The abundance, or otherwise, of a particular radioactive isotope of aluminum might be necessary for the formation of ocean worlds. D-Brief reports.

The existence of the phenomenon of magnetiorotational instability has been proven to exist with regards to planetary system formation. D-Brief reports.

Gravitational lensing can be used to discover the earliest quasars. D-Brief reports.

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.

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[BRIEF NOTE] "So Near the Touch", a #StarTrek story about #socialdistancing (@GeorgeTakei)

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

[URBAN NOTE] Fifteen Kitchener-Waterloo items (#waterlooregion)

[BLOG] Some Thursday links

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

[NEWS] Ten LGBTQ links: crime, Toronto, Montréal, HIV/AIDS, in memoriam, education, sports, camp

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[BLOG] Some Monday blog links

[BLOG] Some Thursday links

[NEWS] Five JSTOR Daily links: doctors & drugs, horses & war, JFK, raisin wine, Irish & Ireland

[NEWS] Five D-Brief links: whales, bacteria, offshore platforms, Falcon Heavy, Denisovans

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[NEWS] Sox tech links: Venezuela power, Argentina agriculture, AI writing, Google, Buttegieg, HIV

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

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