rfmcdonald | Entries tagged with newfoundland

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.

io9 notes that Taylor Swift is co-writing a song for the new Cats movie.

Japan Times looks at a newly translated work by Taiyu Matusomoto, Cats of the Louvre.

CTV News reports that Vancouver cat cafe Catfe offers life drawing classes featuring its cats as models.

D-Brief shares a list of diseases that cats can pass on to humans, and of prevention measures.

Global News looks at the feral cats of Little Bay Islands, a Newfoundland outport community about to be abandoned. What will happen to them?

Oh, why not a fashion show organized around the theme of Cheetos? VICE reports.

A farmer in the Gaspé peninsula is trying to retrieve all of his missing yaks. CBC Montreal has it.

A Newfoundland researcher and artist is examining the relationship of the island with Atlantic slavery. Global News reports.

Atlas Obscura takes a look at the alternative comics scene in the Middle East, centered on Lebanon.

Vanity Fair shares an account of how Netflix tried to sell itself, and its model, to Blockbuster and failed.

This story about a genealogical mystery newly-found in the genetics of Newfoundland is fascinating. The National Post reports.

The island of Komodo has been closed to tourists to save the Komodo dragons from poachers. VICE reports.

China plans to build a city under its control among the islets of the South China Sea. Business Insider reports.

The Inter Press Service notes the spread of leprosy in Kiribati.

JSTOR Daily explains why, for one week, the Faroe Islands are closed to tourists to better enable cleaning and repairs.

CBC reports on a Toronto couple who found a better life in a small town in Newfoundland, Twillingate.

The Irish Times reports on the difficulties, perceived and otherwise, surrounding the first application of Ireland to join the EEC in 1963.

The Guardian reports on how the Russian Arctic islands of Novaya Zemlya have been facing an influx of hungry polar bears.

This account at the NYR Daily of Oceania, an exhibit of art from the Pacific islands at the Royal Academy, makes me wish I could have seen it.

The Inter Press Service reports on the victory of Mauritius over the United Kingdom at the International Court of Justice, ordering Britain to retreat from Diego Garcia and to allow the Chagossians to return to their archipelagic home.

NOW Toronto reports on the potential of Indigenous films and television shows to gain international markets, so long as they get needed funding.

Activists seeking to promote the Mohawk language and culture have received needed government funding, Global News reports.

CBC Montreal notes the visit of a chef from the Six Nations of the Grand River to Montréal to share Iroquois cuisine there, and more.

A Mi'kMaq community in Gaspésie does not want to preserve the Maison Busteed, a historic house belonging to an early settler who reportedly cheated them of their land, to the dismay of some local history activists. CBC reports.

The remains of Nonosabasut and Demasduit, two of the last of the Beothuk of Newfoundland, are going to be transfer from Scotland to a new home in Canada, at the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau. CBC reports.

Architectuul looks at the divided cities of the divided island of Cyprus.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait shares an image of a galaxy that actually has a tail.

Maria Farrell at Crooked Timber talks about her pain as an immigrant in the United Kingdom in the era of Brexit, her pain being but one of many different types created by this move.

The Crux talks about the rejected American proposal to detonate a nuclear bomb on the Moon, and the several times the United States did arrange for lesser noteworthy events there (collisions, for the record).

D-Brief notes how the innovative use of Curiosity instruments has explained more about the watery past of Gale Crater.

Bruce Dorminey notes one astronomer's theory that Venus tipped early into a greenhouse effect because of a surfeit of carbon relative to Earth.

Far Outliers looks at missionaries in China, and their Yangtze explorations, in the late 19th century.

Gizmodo notes evidence that Neanderthals and Denisovans cohabited in a cave for millennia.

At In Media Res, Russell Arben Fox writes about his exploration of the solo music of Paul McCartney.

io9 looks at what is happening with Namor in the Marvel universe, with interesting echoes of recent Aquaman storylines.

JSTOR Daily looks at the Beothuk of Newfoundland and their sad fate.

Language Hat explores Patagonian Afrikaans.

Lawyers, Guns and Money reports on how mindboggling it is to want to be a billionaire. What would you do with that wealth?

The Map Room Blog shares a visualization of the polar vortex.

Marginal Revolution reports on the career of a writer who writes stories intended to help people fall asleep.

The New APPS Blog reports on the power of biometric data and the threat of its misuse.

Neuroskeptic takes a look at neurogenesis in human beings.

Out There notes the import, in understanding our solar system, of the New Horizons photos of Ultima Thule.

Jason Davis at the Planetary Society Blog notes that OSIRIS-REx is in orbit of Bennu and preparing to take samples.

Roads and Kingdoms shares a list of 21 things that visitors to Kolkata should know.

Mark Simpson takes a critical look at the idea of toxic masculinity. Who benefits?

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains why global warming is responsible for the descent of the polar vortex.

Window on Eurasia notes how the pro-Russian Gagauz of Moldova are moving towards a break if the country at large becomes pro-Western.

Arnold Zwicky looks at the art of Finnish painter Hugo Simberg.

Charlie Stross at Antipope notes the many problems appearing already with 2019, starting with Brexit.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait examines the mysterious AT2018cow event. What was it?

blogTO notes that the Ontario government seems to be preparing for a new round of amalgamation, this time involving Toronto neighbours.

The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly writes about her strategies for minimizing her personal waste, including buying expensive durables.

D-Brief shares Chang'e-4 photos taken on the far side of the Moon.

Bruce Dorminey notes an innovative design for a steam-powered asteroid hopper.

Karen Sternheimer at the Everyday Sociology Blog writes about verstehen, the process of coming to an understanding of a subject, as demonstrated in the Arlene Stein study Unbound about trans men.

Gizmodo looks at the remarkably complex nascent planetary system of the quarternary star system HD 98800.

Imageo shares a visualization of the terrifyingly rapid spread of the Camp Fire.

JSTOR Daily debunks the myth of Wilson's unconditional support for the Fourteen Points.

Language Hat notes a new study that claims to provide solid grounds for distinguishing dialects from languages.

Language Log looks at what David Bowie had to say about the Internet in 1999, and how he said it.

Christine Gordon Manley writes about her identity as a Newfoundlander.

Marginal Revolution notes the very variable definitions of urbanization in different states of India as well as nationally.

Emily Lakdawalla at the Planetary Society Blog shares a few more images of Ultima Thule.

Drew Rowsome reviews a new Toronto production of Iphegenia and the Furies.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel notes how a fifth dimension might make the instantaneous spore drive of Discovery possible.

Window on Eurasia links to an article examining eight misconceptions of Russians about Belarus.

JSTOR Daily notes the unorthodox and generally unacknowledged truce struck between Nantucket Island and the British Empire in 1814, during the War of 1812.

A visit by Anthony Bourdain had lasting effects on the culinary scene on Newfoundland. Global News reports.

The Island Review reports on the different plans of the different islands of Scotland to commemorate the end of the First World War.

Michael Erard at The Atlantic writes about the remarkable South Goulburn Island, an island off the coast of Australia where speakers of nine different languages co-exist in a shared passive multilingualism.

Richard Longley wrote at NOW Toronto about the challenges faced by the Toronto Islands in the era of climate change and instability.

Ryan Anderson at Anthrodendum takes a look at how the threat posed to coastal properties by sea level rise reveals much about how human beings assign value.

A BCer in Toronto's Jeff Jedras writes about the food at a Newfoundlander party in Ottawa.

D-Brief considers how past ice ages might have been caused by the shifting poles.

Karen Sternheimer at the Everyday Sociology Blog takes a look at the work of Michelle Pannor Silver, looking at how retirement can influence the identities of individuals.

Far Outliers notes that, in its first major wars, Japan treated prisoners of war well.

JSTOR Daily examines a paper that takes a look at how the X-Men have achieved such resonance in pop culture, such power as symbols of minorities' persecution and survival.

Lawyers, Guns and Money is critical of the effusive press coverage of Mitt Romney, new Republican senator.

Geoffrey Pullum at Lingua Franca shares, for other English speakers, a lexicon of specialized words from the United Kingdom regarding Brexit.

At the LRB Blog, Hyo Yoon Kang takes a look at a series of legal hearings investigating the possibility of assigning legal responsibility for global warming to "carbon majors" like big oil.

Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution shares his argument that the history of the 21st century United States might look like that of the 19th century, with progress despite political disarray.

The NYR Daily shares the arguments of scholar of populism, Jan-Werner Müller, looking at what Cold War liberalism has to say now.

Peter Rukavina shares the story of his two visits to relatives around the Croatian city of Kutina, with photos.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel looks at how astronomers solved the mystery of the "Zone of Avoidance", the portions of space blotted out by the dense plane of our galaxy.

Window on Eurasia reports from a conference on minority languages where speakers complain about Russian government pressures against their languages.

Arnold Zwicky takes a look at tea, starting with tea-time aphorisms and going further afield.

Transit Toronto notes that, sadly, at the end of 2018, the TTC's venerable Metropass will be no more, subsumed into Presto. I bid this card a dear farewell: I will miss it!

Emerald Bensadoun at the Toronto Star writes about how the Toronto Public Library's Dial-a-Story program has been helping children learn English for decades.

Christopher Hume at the Toronto Star writes about the renovation of the Evergreen Brickworks' kiln building. I'm excited to see this place again.

This paid advertisement highlighting the attractions of South Etobicoke actually does seem to do a decent job of explaining the attractions of this part of Toronto. I'd buy a condo by the Humber.

blogTO notes that 1537 Queen Street West, in Parkdale, is set to host a new store, NEWFOUNDLAND, catering to Newfoundlander expats.

Centauri Dreams takes a look at how new technology makes access to deep-sky astronomical images easier than ever, allowing for the recovery of more data.

The Crux considers the factors that make humans so inclined to believe in the existence of god and the supernatural, including our pattern-recognition skills.

D-Brief sharesa the latest research into the origins of the atmospheric haze of Titan.

Todd Schoepflin at the Everyday Sociology Blog has an intriguing post performing ethnography on the fans of the Buffalo Bills.

At A Fistful of Euros, Alexander Harrowell notes one thing to take from the elections in Bavaria is the remarkable strength of the Greens, nearing the CDU/CSU nationally.

io9 shares the delightful Alien-themed maternity photos of a British Columbia couple.

JSTOR Daily looks at contesting visions of motherhood among American feminists in the 1960s and 1970s.

Language Hat reports on "The Midnight Court", a poem written in the 19th century in a now-extinct dialect of Irish.

Lawyers, Guns and Money notes one astounding possible defense of Saudi Arabia faced with Jamal Khashoggi, that his death was accidental.

Christine Gordon Manley shares with her readers her words and her photos of Newfoundland's dramatic Signal Hill.

The NYR Daily shares the witness of Käthe Kollwitz to the end of the First World War and the German Empire in 1918-1919.

Casey Dreier at the Planetary Society Blog criticizes First Man for not showing the excitement of Armstrong and the other Apollo astronauts.

Roads and Kingdoms reports on one woman's search for the Korean cornbread remembered by her mother as a Korean War refugee.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel shares images of some of the most distant objects in the universe images by us so far.

Strange Company expands upon the interesting life of early modern English travel writer Thomas Coryat, who indeed does deserve more attention.

Window on Eurasia wonders where protests in Ingushetia regarding border changes with Chechnya are going.

Arnold Zwicky explores the fable of the forest that identified too closely with the wooden handle of an ax.

Business Insider shares some haunting photos of the old French prison island of Devil's Island, in French Guiana, here.

China is authorizing a horse lottery for its tourist-heavy southern tropical island of Hainan. Bloomberg reports.

National Geographic shares photos of Japan's Hashima Island, once a densely inhabited industrial conurbation and now at risk of succumbing entirely.

A fixed link between the island of Newfoundland and the Canadian mainland--more precisely, a rail link connecting the Northern Peninsula to a new route on the adjacent Labrador shore--may well be a viable proposal. CBC reports.

The worsening of wave-induced flooding on tropical islands might well make very many uninhabitable, by contaminating their water tables. National Geographic reports.

The suggestion of Maltese academic Godfrey Baldacchino that Malta relieve its overcrowding by buying the nearby Italian island of Pantelleria has the advantage of being attention-catching. Malta Today has it.

I wish the lawsuit of American Samoans seeking full citizenship in the United States all possible success. NBC News reports.

Atlas Obscura takes a look at the distinctive history and culture of the Moriori of the Chatham Islands.

Tasmania turns out to be a hugely popular destination for tourists from China. Bloomberg reports.

The Newfoundland government's program of relocating marginal settlements remains hugely controversial. CBC reports.

Pork consumption in Germany is dropping, a consequence of changing demographics and changing dietary preferences. Bloomberg reports.
Raids on illegal immigrants by ICE have the potential to badly hurt agriculture in California. Bloomberg reports.

The story of how an effort to open up the Arctic surf clam fishery of Newfoundland, particularly to natives and non-natives alike became a big mess is sad. The National Post reports.

Apparently, to cope with injuries and chronic pain, the lobster fishers of Maine are coping by using heroin. Is this going on in Atlantic Canada, too? VICE reports.

Things like the Trump plan to substantially replace fresh foods with boxed non-perishable goods in food stamp problems have happened to Native Americans already. The dietary and health consequences are significantly negative. NPR reports.

The idea of making the Toronto Islands an officially designated bird sanctuary makes sense on a lot of levels. The Toronto Star reports.

The community of Saanich, on Vancouver Island, is expected to host the biggest marijuana farm in Canada come legalization, making many there unhappy. Global News reports.

Trump tariffs may doom a pulp and paper mills in the western Newfoundland city of Corner Brook. CBC reports.

Wired features this heartbreaking choices facing the inhabitants of the Louisiana town of Isle de Jean Charles as their island submerges beneath rising waters. What will they do? Where will they go? Can the community survive?

CityMetric tells the story about how people on the Channel Island of Jersey wanted to build a bridge to France, why this didn't happen, and how this relates to Brexit.

New York Magazine carries this article looking at the dreadful aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico and the lagging response of government (American, mainly). Heads should roll.

Japan Times carries an article looking at the various strategies used by different Japanese islands and archipelagoes to try to resist depopulation. Some work better than others.

Could the outposts of Newfoundland benefit not from consolidation and planned depopulation, but from planned resettlement? The precedents from Ireland and Italy are interesting, at least. CBC reports.

The Inter Press Service notes that climate change, including rising sea levels and growing storms, will hit smart island nations badly.

Morgan Fache at Roads and Kingdoms reports on how Koh Pich, "Diamond Island", offshore of Phmon Penh, has been emptied of its population of fishers to make way for an elite real estate development.

News that one-tenth of Ontario college students dropped out during the recent strike is not surprising. The National Post reports.

Atlas Obscura shares photos of the mummers of Newfoundland and the backstory of this cultural phenomenon.

Making abandoned housing in the Vancouver neighbourhood of West Point Grey into student housing sounds great to me. Global News reports.

This obituary for Mary Edelman, long-time Toronto resident and repairer of the typewriters of famed authors, offers insight into a fascinating literary past. The Toronto Star has it.

Jessica Leeder reports on how, with the fragile recovery of the Newfoundland cod fisheries, Fogo Island is investigating the fisheries' new potential, over at The Globe and Mail.

This Atlas Obscura feature takes a look at the endangered Puerto Rico parrot, the iguaca, facing dire conditions after Hurricane Maria.

Gerry Lynch makes the argument that, by torpedoing the Brexit agreement, the DUP and the Unionists have set the stage for eventual Irish reunification, over at Slugger O'Toole.

Atlas Obscura takes a quick look at Just Enough Island, one of the Thousand Islands in the St. Lawrence between Ontario and New York literally just big enough to support a cottage and two chairs in the front.

Éric Grenier suggests that, after the Green Party's Hannah Bell won a byelection in Charlottetown, the Green Party should look to Atlantic Canada for breakthroughs, over at CBC.

Archeological work has revealed evidence of vineyards in the Republic of Georgia dating back eight thousand years. National Geographic reports.

This extended article looks at the ways in which modern genetics are revealing the ancient history of the indigenous peoples of the Americas, using the Beothuk as an example. The Guardian has it.

Joe O'Connor describes how an obscure mutation among the Amish governing blood clotting may offer guides for people interested in extending human longevity, over at the National Post.

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[CAT] Five #caturday links: Newfoundland, Australia, tracking, body language, bodies
[CAT] Five #caturday links: Taylor Swift, Matsumoto, art, disease, Newfoundland
[NEWS] News from around the world: Cheetos fashion, Gaspé yaks, NL slavery, Lebanon comics, Netflix
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Entries tagged with newfoundland

[CAT] Five #caturday links: Newfoundland, Australia, tracking, body language, bodies

[CAT] Five #caturday links: Taylor Swift, Matsumoto, art, disease, Newfoundland

[NEWS] News from around the world: Cheetos fashion, Gaspé yaks, NL slavery, Lebanon comics, Netflix

[ISL] Five #islands links: Newfoundland, Komodo, South China Sea, Kiribati, Faroe Islands

[ISL] Five #islands links: Newfoundland, Ireland, Novaya Zemlya, Pacific Islands, Diego Garcia

[URBAN NOTE] Five Indigenous links: film and TV, Mohawk, Iroquois food, Gaspésie, Beothuk

[BLOG] Some Friday links

[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

[ISL] Five #islands links: Nantucket, Newfoundland, Scotland, South Goulburn, Toronto Islands

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: Metropass, Dial-a-Story, Brickworks, South Etobicoke, NEWFOUNDLAND

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

[ISL[ Five islands links: Devil's Island, Hainan, Hashima, Newfoundland, global warming floods

[ISL] Five islands links: Malta/Pantelleria, American Samoa, Chatham Islands, Tasmania, Newfoundland

[NEWS] Five notes on food: pork in Germany, California agriculture, NL clam, Maine lobster, food box

[ISL] Five islands links: Toronto Islands, Vancouver Island, Newfoundland, Louisiana, Jersey

[ISL] Five links on islands: Puerto Rico, Japan, Newfoundland, climate change, Koh Pich

[NEWS] Four links: post-strike education in Ontario, mummers of Newfounland, Vancouver, Mary Edelman

[NEWS] Five notes from islands: Fogo and Newfoundland, Puerto Rico, Ireland, Just Enough Island, PEI

[NEWS] Three notes about genetics and history and the future: Georgia, Beothuk, Amish