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  • Bad Astronomer Phil Plait notes that Betelgeuse is very likely not on the verge of a supernova, here.

  • Centauri Dreams looks at the mapping of asteroid Bennu.

  • Chris Bertram at Crooked Timber reposted, after the election, a 2013 essay looking at the changes in British society from the 1970s on.

  • The Dragon's Tales shares a collection of links about the Precambrian Earth, here.

  • Karen Sternheimer at the Everyday Sociology Blog writes about fear in the context of natural disasters, here.

  • Far Outliers reports on the problems of privateers versus regular naval units.

  • Gizmodo looks at galaxy MAMBO-9, which formed a billion years after the Big Bang.

  • io9 writes about the alternate history space race show For All Mankind.

  • JSTOR Daily looks at the posters used in Ghana in the 1980s to help promote Hollywood movies.

  • Language Hat links to a new book that examines obscenity and gender in 1920s Britain.

  • Language Log looks at the terms used for the national language in Xinjiang.

  • Paul Campos at Lawyers, Guns and Money takes issue with Jeff Jacoby's lack of sympathy towards people who suffer from growing inequality.

  • Marginal Revolution suggests that urbanists should have an appreciation for Robert Moses.

  • Sean Marshall writes, with photos, about his experiences riding a new Bolton bus.

  • Caryl Philips at the NYR Daily writes about Rachmanism, a term wrongly applied to the idea of avaricious landlords like Peter Rachman, an immigrant who was a victim of the Profumo scandal.

  • The Russian Demographics Blog shares a paper looking at the experience of aging among people without families.

  • Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains why the empty space in an atom can never be removed.

  • Strange Maps shares a festive map of London, a reindeer, biked by a cyclist.

  • Window on Eurasia notes how Mongolia twice tried to become a Soviet republic.

  • Arnold Zwicky considers different birds with names starting with x.

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  • NOW Toronto looks at the Pickering nuclear plant and its role in providing fuel for space travel.

  • In some places like California, traffic is so bad that airlines actually play a role for high-end commuters. CBC reports.

  • Goldfish released into the wild are a major issue for the environment in Québec, too. CTV News reports.

  • China's investments in Jamaica have good sides and bad sides. CBC reports.

  • A potato museum in Peru might help solve world hunger. The Guardian reports.

  • Is the Alberta-Saskatchewan alliance going to be a lasting one? Maclean's considers.

  • Is the fossil fuel industry collapsing? The Tyee makes the case.

  • Should Japan and Europe co-finance a EUrasia trade initiative to rival China's? Bloomberg argues.

  • Should websites receive protection as historically significant? VICE reports.

  • Food tourism in the Maritimes is a very good idea. Global News reports.

  • Atlantic Canada lobster exports to China thrive as New England gets hit by the trade war. CBC reports.

  • The Bloc Québécois experienced its revival by drawing on the same demographics as the provincial CAQ. Maclean's reports.

  • Population density is a factor that, in Canada, determines political issues, splitting urban and rural voters. The National Observer observes.

  • US border policies aimed against migration from Mexico have been harming businesses on the border with Canada. The National Post reports.

  • The warming of the ocean is changing the relationship of coastal communities with their seas. The Conversation looks.

  • Archival research in the digital age differs from what occurred in previous eras. The Conversation explains.

  • The Persian-language Wikipedia is an actively contested space. Open Democracy reports.

  • Vox notes how the US labour shortage has been driven partly by workers quitting the labour force, here.

  • Laurie Penny at WIRED has a stirring essay about hope, about the belief in some sort of future.

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  • By at least one metric, New Brunswick now lags economically behind a more dynamic Prince Edward Island. CBC reports.

  • NOW Toronto looks at toxic fandoms. ("Stanning" sounds really creepy to me.)

  • This CityLab article looks at how the particular characteristics of Japan, including its high population density, helps keep alive there retail chains that have failed in the US.

  • MacLean's looks at Kent Monkman, enjoying a new level of success with his diptych Mistikôsiwak at the Met in NYC.

  • Can there be something that can be said for the idea of an Internet more strongly pillarized? Wired argues.

  • I reject utterly the idea of meaningful similarities between Drake and Leonard Cohen. CBC did it.

  • Toronto Life looks at the life of a Hamilton woman hurt badly by the cancellation of the basic income pilot, here.

  • Inspired by the death of Gord Downie, Ontario now has the office of poet-laureate. CBC reports.

  • Is Canada at risk, like Ireland, of experiencing two-tier health care? CBC considers.

  • A French immigrant couple has brought the art of artisanal vinegar to ile d'Orléans. CBC reports.

  • Shore erosion is complicating the lives of people along Lake Erie. CBC reports.

  • MacLean's notes how Via Rail making it difficult for people without credit cards to buy anything on their trains, hurting many.

  • Michelle Legro notes at Gen that the 2010s is the decade where conspiracy culture became mainstream.

  • This essay by Robert Greene at his blog talking about what history, and historians, can do in our era is thought-provoking.

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  • A new storyboard in Niagara Falls displays the importance of railways to the city. The Niagara Falls Review reports.

  • Niagara Falls city council is considering the idea of linking casinos by aerial car. The Niagara Falls Review reports.

  • Global News reports on a drug bust that saw two people arrested in Niagara Falls.

  • The Niagara Falls Review reports the number of reported homicides in Niagara Region tripled in 2019, to six.

  • The immersive live nativity hosted by a Niagara Falls church sounds interesting. More is here.

  • A recent discussion at Niagara Falls city council was dominated by discussion of housing issues and of homelessness. The Niagara Falls Review reports.

  • Most revenues from the casinos of Niagara Falls have been directed to the infrastructure of the city. The Niagara Falls Review reports.

  • City council in Niagara Falls has approved the construction of a 72-storey hotel. Construct Connect reports.

  • In November, the mayor announced the old city hall and courthouse in the downtown of Niagara Falls was scheduled to be demolished. The Niagara Falls Review reports.

  • The Bath House Hotel once was intended to be a centrepiece of local tourism. The Niagara Falls Review reports.

  • Carrie Bosco writes about the experience of a customer service associate working at the Niagara Falls Public Library, over at the Niagara Falls Review.

  • The Niagara Falls Public Library in winter is a happening place for locals. The Niagara Falls Review reports.

  • A Chinese developer hopes that a proposed $C 1.5 billion dollar project in south Niagara Falls will still go forward. The Niagara Falls Review reports.

  • Niagara Falls is going to have a hard time replacing city historian Sherman Zavitz. The Niagaa Falls Review reports.

  • Niagara News reports on the Winter Festival of Lights in Niagara Falls.

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  • The town of Innisfil is looking forward to some very futuristic developments. Global News reports.

  • Jeremy Deaton at CityLab reports on how, buffered by the Great Lakes, Buffalo NY may end gaining from climate change.

  • The Ottawa chain Bridgehead Coffee has been sold to national chain Second Cup. Global News reports.

  • Many of the more eye-raising installations in the Gay Village of Montréal have since been removed. CTV News reports.

  • Warming huts for homeless people in Winnipeg were torn down because the builders did not follow procedures. Global News reports.

  • Open Democracy looks at innovative new public governance of the city budget in Amsterdam, here.

  • Singapore, located in a well-positioned Southeast Asia and with working government, may take over from Hong Kong. Bloomberg View makes the case.

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  • CBC reports on suggestions that Kingston should plan for a population expected to grow significantly in coming decades, to not just expand but to have intensified development downtown.

  • The rental housing market for Kingston is very tight, not only because of large student populations. Global News reports.

  • Kingstonist reports on Queen's plans to build a large new student residence on Albert Street, here.

  • The Whig-Standard carries an account of the new Queen's principal being interrogated by Kingston city council over issues of friction between school and city, including costs for policing (and not only at Homecoming weekend).

  • This summer, farmers in the Kingston area saw poor crop production as a consequence of the weather. Global News reports.

  • Happily, the budget of the city of Kingston was made to accommodate costs for Murney, the police force's horse. Global News reports.

  • Weston Food's plant in Kingston has seen forty jobs cut. Global News reports.

  • Lake Ontario Park, in the west of the city, may be reopened to limited camping. The Whig-Standard reports.

  • Kingston hockey player Rebecca Thompson is now playing for the team of Queen's. Global News reports.

  • Queen's University is not alone in urging its exchange students in Hong Kong to evacuate. The Whig-Standard reports.

  • Yesterday, a plane crashed in the west of Kingston, killing all seven people aboard. CBC reports.

  • Chris Morris at Kingstonist has a long feature examining the Kingston Street Mission, interviewing outreach worker Marilyn McLean about her work with the homeless of the city.

  • Kingston-born street nurse Cathy Crowe talks about homelessness, in Kingston and across Canada. Global News reports.

  • The family of Royal Military College cadet Joe Grozelle, who disappeared from his campus and was later found dead two decades ago, wants his fate reinvestigated. Global News reports.

  • A hundred students at a Kingston public school are being taught how to skate, part of a pilot program. Global News reports.

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  • Guelph will be holding an open house to see what development will replace the Dolime Quarry. Global News reports.

  • The town of Innisfil has extended its Uber subsidy program for people in need of transit. Global News reports
  • Archeologists in Montréal have found a mass grave of Irish famine victims. CTV reports.

  • The Québec town of Asbestos is changing its name so as to avoid the link, in English, with the toxic mineral. CTV reports.

  • A subway, alas, would be too big for Québec City. Streetcars would work better. Le Devoir reports.

  • Can a hyperloop be built to plug Edmonton together with Calgary? Global News considers.

  • Richmond, British Columbia, has unveiled a cultural harmony strategy to help its diverse population get along. The National Post reports.

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  • The Ottawa Citizen suggests a recent audit of OC Transpo should have offered warnings of the Confederation Line problems to come.

  • A project office has been set up for the extension of the Yellow Line in Longueuil and elsewhere on the south shore. CTV News reports.

  • La Presse looks at the concerns of some artists in Rosemont-La-Petite-Patrie that they might be forced out by gentrification.

  • That the Bay Building in downtown Winnipeg has been evaluated as being of little value offers an opening to Heritage Winnipeg. Global News reports.

  • The New Brunswick government is forcing suburbs of Saint John to pay for city facilities that they also used. Global News reports.

  • Short-term rentals are having a negative effect on real estate markets in Halifax. Global News reports.

  • Downtown Lethbridge faces struggles to attract business. Global News reports.

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  • The vicious homophobia exhibited by TCDSB trustee Mike Del Grande is, IMHO, another reason to defund public Catholic education in Ontario. Global News reports.

  • The CCLV streetcars of the TTC are set to be pulled by the end of November. Global News reports.

  • The Scarborough Bluffs are set to see some worthwhile investment. blogTO reports.

  • CBC notes growth in food bank usage in Toronto and Mississauga.

  • Presto users are being mischarged based on GPS mistakes. CBC reports.

  • Renovictions have spiked 300% over the past four years. blogTO reports.

  • The cost of rent continues to grow in Toronto. blogTO reports.

  • A new project hopes to make Yonge and Eglinton less congested. The Toronto Star reports.

  • New regulations about Airbnb should make the real estate market easier for renters. NOW Toronto reports.

  • Owing to family request, a new street in Etobicoke will not be named after former Toronto mayor Rob Ford. Global News reports.

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  • 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.
  • A Kitchener woman, Heidi Bechtold, has a thriving new dog-related business, Complete K9. The Record reports.
  • 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.

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  • The mayor of Ottawa is suggesting freezing Confederation Line fare increases in light of the system's problems. Global News reports.

  • La Presse looks at the problems faced by the Marché Jean-Talon, here.

  • Greater Moncton, arguably the leading metropolis of New Brunswick, wants to double its intake of immigrants. Global News reports.

  • Jamie Bradburn looks at Lafayette Park in Detroit, designed by Mies van der Rohe.

  • Will Vancouver be connected to Washington State by a high-speed train route? Global News reports.

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  • Bad Astronomer notes the circumstances of the discovery of a low-mass black hole, only 3.3 solar masses.

  • Crooked Timber shares a photo of the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul.

  • The Crux looks at Monte Verde, the site in Chile that has the evidence of the oldest human population known to have lived in South America.

  • The Dragon's Tales notes that Russia may provide India with help in the design of its Gaganyaan manned capsule.

  • L.M. Sacasas at The Frailest Thing talks of his work, including his upcoming conference and his newsletter, The Convivial Society. (Subscribe at the website.)

  • Gizmodo shares the Voyager 2 report from the edges of interstellar space.

  • JSTOR Daily looks at the East India Company and its corporate lobbying.

  • Language Hat shares an account from Ken Liu of the challenges in translating The Three Body Problem, linguistic and otherwise.

  • Language Log looks at the problems faced by the word "liberation" in Hong Kong.

  • Dan Nexon at Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at the implications of the surprising new relationship between Russia and the Philippines.

  • Marginal Revolution seems to like Terminator: Dark Fate, as a revisiting of the series' origins, with a Mesoamerican twist.

  • Sean Marshall announces his attendance at a transit summit in Guelph on Saturday the 9th.

  • Garry Wills writes at the NYR Daily about his experience as a man in the mid-20th century American higher education looking at the rise of women.

  • Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel looks at the strangely faint distant young galaxy MACS2129-1.

  • Window on Eurasia considers the possibility of Latvia developing a national Eastern Orthodox church of its own.

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  • Jamie Bradburn shares photos from his neighbourhood's East Lynn Pumpkin Parade, here.

  • Sidewalk Labs is going to release details of all the data it wants to collect. The Toronto Star reports.

  • NOW Toronto reports on the controversy in the NDP riding association for Parkdale-High Park over the nomination, here.

  • There is a napping studio in Toronto, offering people the chance to nap for 25 minutes at $10 per nap. The National Post reports.

  • CBC reports on a film about Little Jamaica, a neighbourhood along Eglinton Avenue West that might be transformed out of existence, here
  • Daily Xtra looks at the legacy of the Meghan Murphy visit to Toronto.

  • Spacing notes that the Toronto Reference Library has a large collection of Communist newspapers available for visitors.

  • The idea of Metrolinx paying for the repair of damaged Eglinton Avenue does make a lot of intuitive sense. CBC reports.

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  • Jamie Bradburn took a look at now-effaced Toronto cemetery Potter's Field, here.

  • Kingston, Ontario's Skeleton Park is a remarkable legacy. Global News reports.

  • CBC Saskatoon reports on the origins of Halloween in harvest events.

  • The Hong Kong protests took on a new tinge this Halloween. CBC reports.

  • The Vancouver tradition of Halloween fireworks may be dying out. The National Post reports.

  • Guardian Cities looks around the world, from Derry to West Hollywood, at local celebrations of Halloween.

  • Gizmodo shares an image of a ghostly collision of galaxies in deep space.

  • Dangerous Minds shared some album covers inspired by Halloween.

  • CBC looks at the very low rate of candy tampering in Canada over the past decade.

  • JSTOR Daily considers how the Great Pumpkin of Peanuts came to be so great.

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  • This r/mapporn map shows the scale of the collapse of Irish as a spoken language across most of Ireland. Was this avoidable?

  • This r/imaginarymaps map shows a Canada where the 1837 rebellions were successful, with an autonomous Upper Canada and a Lower Canada with a Patriote state. Doable?

  • This r/imaginarymaps map depicts a common alternate history trope, that of an independent but culturally Russian Alaska. What would it take for this to happen?

  • This r/imaginarymaps map depicts a world where Eurasia, from Germany to Korea, was dominated by a successfully industrializing Russian Empire. Was this common fear of the belle époque actually achievable?

  • This r/mapporn map shows the different proposals for different territorial configurations of the Canadian Prairies. (I like the ones with north-south divisions.)

  • Was a single South Africa covering most of British Southern Africa with relatively liberal racial policies, as Jan Smuts wanted, actually achievable? r/imaginarymaps hosts the map.

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  • MacLean's looks at how Justin Trudeau and the Liberals survived #elxn43, here.

  • Ajay Parasram at The Conversation looks at the new complications faced by Justin Trudeau.

  • Daily Xtra looks at the record of the Liberals on LGBTQ2 issues, here.

  • Daily Xtra looks at the four out LGBTQ2 MPs elected to Parliament, here.

  • Philippe Fournier at MacLean's argues that 338Canada stands vindicated in its predictions, with some 90% of the people it predicted would be elected being elected.

  • What will become of Conservative leader Andrew Scheer? The National Post considers.

  • Strategic voting and Doug Ford, Mark Gollom notes, kept the Conservatives from making a breakthrough in Ontario.

  • Robyn Urback at CBC notes that the narrow conservatism of Scheer kept the Conservatives from victory in a wary Canada.

  • Stephen Maher at MacLean's questions if the Bloc Québécois victory has much to do with separatism, per se.

  • Voters in Québec seem to be fine with election results, with a strong Bloc presence to keep the Liberals on notice. CBC has it.

  • Talk of separatism has taken off in Alberta following the #elxn43 results. Global News has it.

  • The premier of Saskatchewan has also talked of his province's alienation after #elxn43, here in the National Post.

  • CBC's As It Happens carries an interview with former Conservative MP Jay Hill, now an advocate for western Canadian separatism.

  • Atlantic Canada may provide new members for the cabinet of Justin Trudeau. The Toronto Star reports.

  • Jaime Battiste, Liberal, has been elected as the first Mi'kmaq MP from Nova Scotia. Global News has it.

  • The Green Party did not make its hoped-for breakthrough on Vancouver Island, but it will struggle on. Global News has it.

  • Did, as Politico suggested, Canada sleepwalk into the future with #elxn43?

  • We should be glad, Scott Gilmore argues in MacLean's, that given the global challenges to democracy #elxn43 in Canada was relatively boring.

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  • Bad Astronomer Phil Plait notes how a photo of the Large Magellanic Cloud makes him recognize it as an irregular spiral, not a blob.

  • Centauri Dreams celebrates the life of cosmonaut Alexei Leonov.

  • John Quiggin at Crooked Timber takes issue with one particular claim about the benefits of war and empire.

  • The Crux looks at fatal familial insomnia, a genetic disease that kills through inflicting sleeplessness on its victims.

  • D-Brief looks at suggestions that magnetars are formed by the collisions of stars.

  • Dangerous Minds introduces readers to the fantasy art of Arthur Rackham.

  • Cody Delistraty considers some evidence suggesting that plants have a particular kind of intelligence.

  • The Dragon's Tales notes the expansion by Russia of its airbase in Hneymim, Syria.

  • Karen Sternheimer writes at the Everyday Sociology Blog about the critical and changing position of libraries as public spaces in our cities.

  • Gizmodo looks at one marvelous way scientists have found to cheat quantum mechanics.

  • Information is Beautiful outlines a sensible proposal to state to cultivate seaweed a as source of food and fuel.

  • io9 notes that, in the exciting new X-Men relaunch, immortal Moira MacTaggart is getting her own solo book.

  • JSTOR Daily notes how the now-defunct Thomas Cook travel agency played a role in supporting British imperialism, back in the day.

  • Language Log notes that the Oxford English Dictionary is citing the blog on the use of "their" as a singular.

  • Scott Lemieux at Lawyers, Guns and Money considers the grounds for impeaching Donald Trump.

  • The LRB Blog looks at the politics of Mozambique at the country approaches dangerous times.

  • Sean Marshall notes the southern Ontario roads that run to Paris and to London.

  • Neuroskeptic notes a problematic scientific study that tried to use rabbits to study the female human orgasm.

  • Steve Baker at The Numerati looks at a new book on journalism by veteran Peter Copeland.

  • The NYR Daily makes the point that depending on biomass as a green energy solution is foolish.

  • The Planetary Science Blog notes a 1983 letter by then-president Carl Sagan calling for a NASA mission to Saturn and Titan.

  • Roads and Kingdoms interviews photojournalist Eduardo Leal on his home city of Porto, particularly as transformed by tourism.

  • Drew Rowsome notes the book Dreamland, an examination of the early amusement park.

  • The Russian Demographics Blog shares a paper considering, in broad detail, how the consequence of population aging could be mitigated in the labour market of the European Union.

  • Strange Company reports on a bizarre poltergeist in a British garden shed.

  • Window on Eurasia notes the new strength of a civic national identity in Kazakhstan, based on extensive polling.

  • Arnold Zwicky, surely as qualified a linguist as any, examines current verb of the American moment, "depose".

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  • Adam Fish at anthro{dendum} compares different sorts of public bathing around the world, from Native America to Norden to Japan.

  • Charlie Stross at Antipope is unimpressed by the person writing the script for our timeline.

  • Architectuul reports on an architectural conference in Lisbon.

  • Bad Astronomer Phil Plait shares stunning photos of the eruption of the Raikoke volcano in Kamchatka.

  • Centauri Dreams looks at what the Voyager spacecraft have returned about the edge of the solar system.

  • John Quiggin at Crooked Timber takes issue with the idea of bipartisanship if it means compromising on reality, allegorically.

  • The Crux counts the number of people who have died in outer space.

  • D-Brief notes that the Andromeda Galaxy has swallowed up multiple dwarf galaxies over the eons.

  • Dead Things notes the identification of the first raptor species from Southeast Asia, Siamraptor suwati.

  • The Dragon's Tales notes a paper tracing the origins of interstellar comet 2/Borisov from the general area of Kruger 60.

  • Karen Sternheimer at the Everyday Sociology Blog writes about the privilege allowing people access to affordable dental care.

  • Gizmodo tells how Alexei Leonov survived the first spacewalk.

  • io9 looks at the remarkable new status quo for the X-Men created by Jonathan Hickman.

  • Selma Franssen at the Island Review writes about the threats facing the seabirds of the Shetlands.

  • JSTOR Daily looks at what led Richard Nixon to make so many breaks from the American consensus on China in the Cold War.

  • Language Log notes an undergraduate course at Yale using the Voynich Manuscript as an aid in the study of language.

  • Abigail Nussbaum at Lawyers, Guns and Money explains her recent experience of the socialized health care system of Israel for Americans.

  • The LRB Blog looks at how badly the Fukuyama prediction of an end to history has aged.

  • The Map Room Blog shares a few maps of the new Ottawa LRT route.

  • Marginal Revolution notes a paper establishing a link between Chinese industries undermining their counterparts in Mexico and Mexican social ills including crime.

  • Sean Marshall reports from Ottawa about what the Confederation Line looks like.

  • Adam Shatz at the NYR Daily looks at the power of improvisation in music.

  • Roads and Kingdoms looks at South Williamsburg Jewish deli Gottlieb's.

  • Drew Rowsome reviews the new Patti Smith book, Year of the Monkey.

  • The Russian Demographics Blog shares a paper looking as the factors leading into transnational movements.

  • Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel considers the question of the direction(s) in which order in the universe was generated.

  • Window on Eurasia shares a report noting the very minor flows of migration from China to Russia.

  • Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell looks at the politics in the British riding of Keighley.

  • Arnold Zwicky looks at some penguin socks.

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