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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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  • blogTO shares photos from Yorkdale Mall during its power outage Saturday.

  • blogTO reports that Toronto hosts, by one measurement, one of the biggest housing bubbles in the world.

  • The story of how a neighbourhood project painted over the Ossington Laneway, vandalizing the graffiti there, is a sad one. blogTO has it.

  • Judging by his filmed confession, the only chance Alek Minassian has to avoid a very lengthy prison sentence is a perhaps-unlikely insanity plea. CBC reports.

  • NOW Toronto reports on the climate strike protests held Friday in Toronto.

  • The Toronto Star reports on the mass protests held on Sunday to keep homophobic Christians from marching into Church and Wellesley.

  • Steve Munro reports on the statistical sleight of hand apparently used to make the TTC Bombardier streetcars of the TTC look better.

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  • Anthro{dendum} features an essay examining trauma and resiliency as encountered in ethnographic fieldwork.

  • Architectuul highlights a new project seeking to promote historic churches built in the United Kingdom in the 20th century.

  • Bad Astronomy's Phil Plait examines Ahuna Mons, a muddy and icy volcano on Ceres, and looks at the nebula Westerhout 40.

  • Centauri Dreams notes the recent mass release of data from a SETI project, and notes the discovery of two vaguely Earth-like worlds orbiting the very dim Teegarden's Star, just 12 light-years away.

  • Chris Bertram at Crooked Timber notes that having universities as a safe space for trans people does not infringe upon academic freedom.

  • The Crux looks at the phenomenon of microsleep.

  • D-Brief notes evidence that the Milky Way Galaxy was warped a billion years ago by a collision with dark matter-heavy dwarf galaxy Antlia 2, and notes a robotic fish powered by a blood analogue.

  • The Dragon's Tales notes that India plans on building its own space station.

  • Earther notes the recording of the song of the endangered North Pacific right whale.

  • The Everyday Sociology Blog looks at the role of emotional labour in leisure activities.

  • Far Outliers looks at how Japan prepared for the Battle of the Leyte Gulf in 1944.

  • Gizmodo looks at astronomers' analysis of B14-65666, an ancient galactic collision thirteen billion light-years away, and notes that the European Space Agency has a planned comet interception mission.

  • io9 notes how the plan for Star Trek in the near future is to not only have more Star Trek, but to have many different kinds of Star Trek for different audiences.

  • Joe. My. God. notes the observation of Pete Buttigieg that the US has probably already had a gay president.

  • JSTOR Daily looks at the many ways in which the rhetoric of Celtic identity has been used, and notes that the archerfish uses water ejected from its eyes to hunt.

  • Language Hat looks at why Chinese is such a hard language to learn for second-language learners, and looks at the Suso monastery in Spain, which played a key role in the coalescence of the Spanish language.

  • Language Log looks at the complexities of katakana.

  • Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the death of deposed Egypt president Mohammed Morsi looks like a slow-motion assassination, and notes collapse of industrial jobs in the Ohio town of Lordstown, as indicative of broader trends.

  • The LRB Blog looks at the death of Mohamed Morsi.

  • The Map Rom Blog shares a new British Antarctic Survey map of Greenland and the European Arctic.

  • Marginal Revolution notes how non-religious people are becoming much more common in the Middle East, and makes the point that the laying of cable for the transatlantic telegraph is noteworthy technologically.

  • Noah Smith at Noahpionion takes the idea of the Middle East going through its own version of the Thirty Years War seriously. What does this imply?

  • The NYR Daily takes a look at a Lebanon balanced somehow on the edge, and looks at the concentration camp system of the United States.

  • The Planetary Society Blog explains what people should expect from LightSail 2, noting that the LightSail 2 has launched.

  • Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw points readers to his stories on Australian spy Harry Freame.

  • Rocky Planet explains, in the year of the Apollo 50th anniversary, why the Moon matters.

  • Drew Rowsome reviews, and praises, South African film Kanarie, a gay romp in the apartheid era.

  • The Russian Demographics Blog links to a paper examining the relationship between childcare and fertility in Belgium, and looks at the nature of statistical data from Turkmenistan.

  • The Strange Maps Blog shares a map highlighting different famous people in the United States.

  • Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains why different galaxies have different amounts of dark matter, and shares proof that the Apollo moon landings actually did happen.

  • Towleroad notes the new evidence that poppers, in fact, are not addictive.

  • Window on Eurasia warns about the parlous state of the Volga River.

  • Arnold Zwicky takes an extended look at the mid-20th century gay poet Frank O'Hara.

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  • Bad Astronomer Phil Plait notes the import of the discovery of asteroid 2019 AQ3, a rare near-Venus asteroid.

  • Centauri Dreams notes the how the choice of language used by SETI researchers, like the eye-catching "technosignatures", may reflect the vulnerability of the field to criticism on Earth.

  • John Holbo at Crooked Timber considers what is to be done about Virginia, given the compromising of so many of its top leaders by secrets from the past.

  • The Crux notes how the imminent recovery of ancient human DNA from Africa is likely to lead to a revolution in our understanding of human histories there.

  • D-Brief notes how astronomers were able to use the light echoes in the accretion disk surrounding stellar-mass black hole MAXI J1820+070 to map its environment.

  • JSTOR Daily considers the snow day as a sort of modern festival.

  • Robert Farley at Lawyers, Guns and Money links to his consideration of the plans of the German Empire to build superdreadnoughts, aborted only by defeat. Had Germany won the First World War, there surely would have been a major naval arms race.

  • The NYR Daily looks at two exhibitions of different photographers, Brassaï and Louis Stettner.

  • Emily Lakdawalla at the Planetary Society Blog shares an evocative crescent profile of Ultima Thule taken by New Horizons, and crescent profiles of other worlds, too.

  • Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel looks at the mystery of why there is so little antimatter in the observable universe.

  • Frank Jacobs at Strange Maps shares a map exploring the dates and locations of first contact with aliens in the United States as shown in film.

  • Window on Eurasia notes a new push by Circassian activists for the Circassian identity to be represented in the 2020 census.

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  • Bad Astronomer Phil Plait looks at stellar nursery NGC 604 in the Triangulum Galaxy.

  • Centauri Dreams considers what the rings of Saturn indicate about the inner structure, and formation, of Saturn.

  • The Crux looks at the exciting steam-based robot WINE, capable of travelling between asteroids and hopping around larger worlds like Ceres and Europa with steam.

  • D-Brief looks at how the colours of the ocean will change over time, some parts becoming bluer and others greener as phytoplankton populations change.

  • Gizmodo deals critically with the idea that "permatripping" on LSD is possible. At most, the drug might expose underlying issues.

  • Imageo notes that, even with the polar vortex, cold snaps in North America under global warming have been becoming less cold over time.

  • JSTOR Daily looks at how Cutex, in the early 1910s, created a new market for manicures.

  • Language Hat mourns linguist, and fluent speaker of Sumerian, Miguel Civil.

  • Scott Lemieux at Lawyers, Guns and Money notes how there is not a centre in American politics to be exploited by the likes of Howard Schultz, that if anything there is an unrepresented left.

  • Marginal Revolution shares a commenter's argument--misguided, I think--that a wealth tax would represent a violation of privacy rights.

  • Emily Lakdawalla at the Planetary Society Blog notes that the InSight probe on Mars has placed the Wind and Thermal Shield above its seismometer.

  • At Une heure de peine ..., Denis Colombi takes issue with the use of statistics without a deeper understanding as to what they represent.

  • Window on Eurasia suggests that, while a report that Belarus is investigating the possibility of autocephaly for its national church on the Ukrainian model is likely fake news, it may reflect underlying trends.

  • Arnold Zwicky points readers towards the enjoyable music of Americana/folk duo Mandolin Orange.

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I've a post up at Demography Matters. As a prelude to more substantial posting, I thought I would share with readers some demographics-related links from my readings in the blogosphere.


  • The blog Far Outliers, concentrating on the author's readings, has been looking at China in recent weeks. Migrations have featured prominently, whether in exploring the history of Russian migration to the Chinese northeast, looking at the Korean enclave of Yanbian that is now a source and destination for migrants, and looking at how Tai-speakers in Yunnan maintain links with Southeast Asia through religion. The history of Chinese migration within China also needs to be understood.

  • Lawyers, Guns and Money was quite right to argue that much of the responsibility for Central Americans' migration to the United States has to be laid at the foot of an American foreign policy that has caused great harm to Central America. Aaron Bastani at the London Review of Books' Blog makes similar arguments regarding emigration from Iran under sanctions.

  • Marginal Revolution has touched on demographics, looking at the possibility for further fertility decline in the United States and noting how the very variable definitions of urbanization in different states of India as well as nationally can understate urbanization badly.

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  • 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.

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  • Heavy rainfall puts serious strains on the sewer system of Toronto. (I'm just grateful for my good drainage, the historic proximity of Garrison Creek notwithstanding.) Global News reports.

  • Christopher Hume reports on the flood-minimizing bioswale installed at Downsview Park, over at the Toronto Star.

  • The CNE projects losses of 1.5 million dollars on account of the strike by workers. CityNews reports.

  • I entirely approve of this lawsuit requiring the publication of real estate sales data. Toronto needs to be able to know itself. CBC reports.

  • Katie Daubs writes about the heart of John Elmsley, a convert whose heart was buried in the wall of St. Basil's Church, over at the Toronto Star.

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  • JSTOR Daily notes how severe drought in Ireland is revealing, to aerial and other observers, the outlines of ancient ruins.

  • D-Brief examines how the export from Norse Greenland to Europe of walrus ivory played a key role in these lost settlements' economy.

  • The people of Rapa Nui, Easter Island, have demanded a return of one of their moai statues from the British Museum, taken at their historical nadir.

  • Asylum-seekers being held in detention by Australia on the island of Nauru have beseeched Canada, asking for refuge here. CBC reports.

  • New York Magazine suggests that San Juan, capital of Puerto Rico, is despite recent horrors a good destination for tourists.

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  • Urban Toronto notes that Toronto city council has granted approval for rezoning the Galleria Mall, making plans for a massive high-density redevelopment possible.

  • blogTO reports that, finally, a website has appeared that will let people navigate the underground PATH network downtown. (An app will come later.)

  • Steve Munro notes how the Bombardier streetcar debacle not only undermines that company, but threatens the presence of the streetcar in Toronto.

  • Spacing shares Gabriel Eidelman's explanation of the history of Toronto's Bureau of Municipal Research, and why he decided to bring it back.

  • Toronto Life shares photos of the float homes moored off the docks in Scarborough's Bluffer's Park Marina, and the people who live there.

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  • Wired notes a bill proposed at the state level in California to force cities to provide affordable and accessible housing through non-NIMBY zoning.

  • The Toronto and Vancouver housing markets, perhaps uniquely among the markets of Canada's major cities, are not seeing as much new supply as others. The Globe and Mail reports.

  • The population of Saint John, New Brunswick, has fallen by a quarter since 1971. The city government wants to change this, somehow. Global News notes.

  • VICE reports a new census of homelessness in Los Angeles, amid fears of locals that prior estimates might be undercounts.

  • The mystery of what happened to Princess Pamela, a famous soul food cook whose Harlem restaurant was famous to those in the know, is explored in this thought-provoking essay.

  • At Slate, Annie Risemberg explores how old connections to Liberia and ethnic restaurants helped a corner of southwestern Philadelphia become "Little Africa", a destination of note for West African immigrants.

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  • Rex at Anthro{dendum} considers Ursula K Le Guin from as an anthropologist by background and interests, and as a denizen of a "Redwood Zone" of western North America with a particular climate.

  • Centauri Dreams notes the exceptional technical progress being made towards the next generation of space telescope technology.

  • Dangerous Minds shares photos of collaborations between Grace Jones and Keith Haring in 1984 and 1986, when Haring painted the star's body.

  • Gizmodo at io9 shares stunningly detailed photographs of the giant Pi1 Gruis, some 530 light-years away.

  • Hornet Stories shares a letter from the mother of a girl ten years old who describes how this theatre fan was positively affected by the Manhattan production of Kinky Boots.

  • Language Hat shares a Quora answer talking about the way Azerbaijani sounds to speakers of the related Turkish. Much discussion ensues.

  • Lawyers, Guns and Money shares the disturbing report that moderate conservative Victor Cha has been rejected as a candidate for US ambassador to South Korea because he warns against war with the North.

  • The Map Room Blog shares disturbing maps showing the extent to which the water reservoirs of Cape Town have been depleted.

  • Non-binary writer Robin Dembroff argues at the NYR Daily that state recognition of non-binary gender identity, while well-meaning, is ultimately less good than the withdrawal of gender identity as a category of state concern.

  • The Planetary Science Blog wonders if space travel and space science, of the sort favoured by Society president Bill Nye, could become a bipartisan issue uniting Americans.

  • Seriously Science notes that at least some species of birds prefer to date before they pair-bond and have children.

  • Towleroad reports that The Gangway, oldest surviving gay bar in San Francisco, has shut down to make way for a new laundromat/movie theatre.
  • Understanding Society's Daniel Little considers the factors that lead the people in charge of industries facing decline to ignore this. Could the education sector be one of these, too, depending on future change?

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  • The idea of adding a fee for ride-hailing apps that would go towards funding the TTC makes perfect sense to me. CBC reports.

  • NOW Toronto profiles ten people, neither white nor male, set to join in the post-legalization marijuana boom.

  • This Toronto Star article sums up the state of what is, and is not, known about the state of the Bruce McArthur investigation.

  • A new emergency shelter for the homeless is opening up in the Annex, notwithstanding the complaints of NIMBYist neighbours. The Toronto Star reports.

  • The application of respondent-driven sampling methods reveals that the First Nations population of Toronto is much larger than official statistics indicate. The Toronto Star reports.

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  • First, a new blog. The Buzz...About Books, official blog of the Toronto Public Library's Book Buzz, has interesting book-related posts. I liked this one from last December, noting the most popular books in dozens of neighbourhoods according to TPL stats.

  • Centauri Dreams celebrates the life and achievements, as a writer and as a dreamer, of Ursula K Le Guin.

  • D-Brief notes that yesterday was NASA's Day of Remembrance for lost astronauts, and takes a close look at the Columbia disaster 15 years ago.

  • Hornet Stories notes a recent interview with Tonya Harding, famous again thanks to I, Tonya, that takes a look at some of her more controversial opinions. (Is the pro-Trump enough to prevent her from being some sort of camp icon, I wonder?)

  • JSTOR Daily links to a paper examining the import of artificial intelligence victories in board games, like Go, over human players. Of course simple iterations are able to overcome human-style intelligence, so long as you go through enough iterations at least.

  • Language Hat notes how many languages, and dialects of languages, can survive in far-removed immigrant enclaves. Greek in Ohio is used as one example.

  • Marginal Revolution imagines, through the person of an athlete, what it would be like for someone to know all the data that is to be known about them. (I think it could be empowering.)

  • Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw shares his sad thoughts about how, in an age of instant and potentially overwhelming digital outrage in a polarizing era, he resorts to self-censorship.

  • The Planetary Society Blog explores the work of scientists who are assembling a guidebook indicating what the spectra of Earth-like worlds, at different stages of their history and orbiting different stars, will look like.

  • Drew Rowsome takes a look at how #metoo is revealing sexual harassment and assault everywhere, among gay and straight, in Ontario and abroad.

  • Ilya Somin at the Volokh Conspiracy demonstrates that the anti-immigration policies of Trump show the man is uninterested, as some would have it, in deregulation.

  • Understanding Society examines the question of how organizations can ensure that their members will act in compliance with stated organizational values.

  • Window on Eurasia s the ongoing emigration of ethnic Russians from the North Caucasus, a massive and--I suspect--irreversible migration.

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  • Robbie Gonzalez at Wired notes how new Trump Administration measures supposedly guaranteeing "religious freedom" and abandoning data collection will hurt queer people in the US seeking healthcare.

  • Dennis Altman at The Conversation argues that "SOGI", for "Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity", is a more useful acronym than "LGBTI ..."

  • Towleroad notes a new lawsuit in the United States intended to ensure that children of queer couples born abroad can automatically claim American citizenship.

  • Alex McKeen notes critics of the Bruce McArthur serial murder investigation who suggest police have been much too quick to warn about online apps, perhaps neglecting other ways people get in touch, over at the Toronto Star.

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I will be doing the hard work of installing these six blogs on my blogroll later this weekend. For now, suffice it to say that these six blogs, still-extant islands in a blogosphere in a state of transformation, are going to be the last I'll be adding for some time. It can be hard to keep up with them all.


  • Daily JSTOR is the famed scholarly archive's blog. This 1 November post, timed for Nanowrimo, sharing some inspiring quotes from writers about writing, is fun.

  • The blog by Lyman Stone, In a State of Migration, has great analyses of demographic issues in the United States and wider world. This recent post, looking at what it would take to--as the alt-right would wish--"make America white" and the enormous costs of this goal, is worth noting.

  • Information is Beautiful, by famed data journalist David McCandless has all sorts of fantastic infographics. I recommend this one, looking at the United Kingdom's options re: Brexit.

  • The Chronicle of Higher Education's blog Lingua Franca takes a look at language and writing. This recent post, analyzing the complexities and challenges of George Orwell's thought on freedom of expression, is very good.

  • Noahpinion is the blog of Bloomberg writer Noah Smith. I quite liked this older essay, one noting that cyberpunk's writers seem to have gotten the future, unlike other writers in other SF subgenres. Does rapid change lead to bad predictions?

  • Salmagundi is a blog by an anonymous gay Kentucky writer touching on the subjects of his life and more. The most recent post is this link to an essay by Bruce Snider, talking about the lack of rural gay poets.

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  • Anthrodendum shares an essay by Yana Stainova talking about restoring a sense of enchantment to ethnography.

  • Bad Astronomer Phil Plait looks at NGTS-1b, a hot Jupiter unusually orbiting a red dwarf star, as does Centauri Dreams.

  • D-Brief looks at how the relativistic jets of matter issuing from central black holes in active galaxies work.

  • Hornet Stories notes an upcoming revival of Boys in the Band by Ryan Murphy, with Zachary Quinto and Matt Bomer.

  • Joe. My. God. notes that 28% of those polled worldwide would favour recriminalizing homosexuality.

  • Language Hat looks at the role played by Italian dialect in games of bocce.

  • Marginal Revolution links to a study examining some of the structural economic failings of socialism in Yugoslavia.

  • Neuroskeptic wonders if there should be a place where people can make use of perfectly good abandoned data sets.

  • Understanding Society looks at the yawning gap between social science theories and actual policies.

  • Window on Eurasia notes how above-average immigrant fertility helps keep birth rates up in Moscow.

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  • The Broadside Blog's Caitlyn Kelly talks about the rejuvenating effects of "forest bathing". I quite agree, myself.

  • Centauri Dreams looks at the idea of Project Blue, a dedicated astronomy satellite to look for exoplanets at Alpha Centauri.

  • D-Brief notes that astrophysicists have verified an eclipse described in the Bible circa 1207 BCE.

  • The Dragon's Gaze links to another KIC 8462852 study, finding its dimming is best explained by circumstellar debris.

  • The Everyday Sociology Blog notes the importance of being careful with the use of numbers.

  • Far Outliers explores how Singapore managed to position itself as a safe destination for tourists visiting Asia.

  • Language Hat links to a beautiful passage from Kim Stanley Robinson's Aurora on the messiness of language.

  • Language Log takes a look at the phenomenon of headlessness in the propaganda of North Korea.

  • The NYR Daily looks at the sad short life of Stanwix Melville.

  • The Planetary Society Blog shares multiple images, with multiple perspectives, of Giordano Bruno crater on the Moon.

  • Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw finds the use of Section 44 of the Australian Constitution to disqualify politicians as dual nationals ridiculous.

  • Cheri Lucas Rowlands shares some beautiful photos of Saint-Tropez.

  • Arnold Zwicky meditates on language, moving from the strange names of the parts of flowers to the X-Men.

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  • Bad Astronomer Phil Plait notes the import of comet A/2017U1, a potential visitor from another planetary system, while Centauri Dreams also takes a look.
  • The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly celebrates Montréal's Atwater Market, with photos.

  • Bruce Dorminey notes one report that Ceres' primordial ocean may have mixed with its surface, to make a world covered in salty mud.

  • The Map Room Blog links to an interactive French-language map looking at census data on different neighbourhoods in different cities.

  • The New APPS Blog looks at the changing role of the judiciary as enforcing of order in a privatized world.

  • The NYR Daily wonders if North Korea's government has firm control over its nuclear weapons, given American issues.

  • The Planetary Society Blog notes the expansion of Google Maps to other worlds in our solar system.

  • The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer examines the situation facing Catalonia, and Spain, after the UDI.

  • Roads and Kingdoms takes a photographic look at Little Mogadishu, a Somali neighbourhood in Kampala, Uganda.

  • Rocky Planet notes the ongoing risk of a major volcanic eruption at Tinakula, in the Solomon Islands.

  • Understanding Society takes a look at the role and functioning of overlapping social identities.

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  • Anthrodendum considers the difficulties of the anthropologist in the context of a world where their knowledges are monetized.

  • The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly talks about two days she spent in Montréal, with photos.

  • Crooked Timber starts a discussion about the justice, or lack thereof, in Harvard denying convicted murderer Michelle Jones entry into their doctoral program now that her sentence is over.

  • D-Brief looks at the changing nature of the global disease burden, and its economic consequences.

  • Lawyers, Guns and Money notes that Equifax's terribly lax data protection should mark the endgame for them.

  • The Map Room Blog considers the use of earth-observer satellites to predict future disease outbreaks (malaria, here, in Peru).

  • Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel notes how quantum mechanics helps explain nuclear fusion in our sun.

  • Window on Eurasia notes a report that Muscovites live on average 12 years longer than non-Muscovite Russians.

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