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  • The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly writes about the importance of seeing the world from new angles.

  • John Quiggin at Crooked Timber suggests that, worldwide, coal is becoming increasingly closely associated with corruption.

  • D-Brief looks at a study drawing on Twitter that suggests people will quickly get used to changing weather in the era of climate change.

  • Jonathan Wynn at the Everyday Sociology Blog writes about a family trip during which he spent time listening to sociology-related podcasts.

  • Far Outliers notes the life-determining intensity of exam time for young people in Calcutta.

  • io9 notes that, finally, the classic Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Once More, With Feeling" is being released on vinyl.

  • JSTOR Daily looks at how medieval Europe regulated the sex trade.

  • Language Hat looks at how anthropologists have stopped using "hominid" and started using "hominin", and why.

  • Language Log considers the difficulty of talking about "Sinophone" given the unrepresented linguistic diversity included in the umbrella of "Chinese".

  • Marginal Revolution suggests there are conflicts between NIMBYism and supporting open immigration policies.

  • At Out There, Corey S. Powell interviews astronomer Slava Turyshev about the possibility not only of interstellar travel but of exploiting the Solar Gravity Lens, 550 AU away.

  • Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 9 mission.

  • Towleroad notes that Marvel Comics is planning to make its lead character in the Eternals gay.

  • Daniel Little at Understanding Society examines how the human body and its physical capacities are represented in sociology.

  • Window on Eurasia notes the growth of the Volga Tatar population of Moscow, something hidden by the high degree of assimilation of many of its members.

  • Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell notes, in connection to Huawei, the broad powers allotted to the British government under existing security and communications laws.

  • Arnold Zwicky looks at anteaters and antedaters.

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  • Architectuul takes a look at a new exhibition exploring women architects in Bauhaus.

  • Bad Astronomer Phil Plait shares a photo of Chang'e-4 taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

  • Centauri Dreams notes the power of perspective, demonstrated by photos taken in space far from the Earth.

  • Far Outliers notes the role of the Indian army, during the Raj, in engaging and mobilizing peasants while allowing recruits to maintain village traditions.

  • Joe. My. God. notes a new study from the Netherlands suggesting the children of same-sex parents do better in school than children of opposite-sex parents.

  • Scott Lemieux at Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the astonishing plagiarism and sloppy writing of former NYT editor Jill Abramson.

  • Michael Hofman at the LRB Blog takes a look at the mindset producing the Brexit catastrophe.

  • Marginal Revolution takes a look at the decline of the wealth tax in recent decades in high-income countries. Apparently the revenues collected were often not substantial enough.

  • The Planetary Society Blog shares missions updates from Chang'e-4 on the Moon.

  • Drew Rowsome reviews the Cirque Éloize show Hotel.

  • Window on Eurasia notes one call for Tatarstan, and Tatar nationalists, to abandon a territorial model of identity focused on the republic, seeing as how so many Tatars live outside of Tatarstan.

  • Arnold Zwicky takes a look at the play in language involved in a recent Bizarro comic.

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  • Bad Astronomer Phil Plait shares a lovely photo of the Earth peeking out from behind the far side of the Moon.

  • At the Broadside Blog, Caitlin Kelly shares lovely photos of delicate ice and water taken on a winter's walk.

  • Centauri Dreams looks</> at the study by Chinese astronomers who, looking at the distribution of Cepheids, figured out that our galaxy's disk is an S-shaped warp.

  • D-Brief notes new evidence that melting of the Greenland ice sheet will disrupt the Gulf Stream.

  • L.M. Sacasas at The Frailest Thing takes issue with the uncritical idealization of the present, as opposed to the critical examination of whatever time period we are engaging with.

  • Gizmodo notes that an intensive series of brain scans is coming closer to highlighting the areas of the human brain responsible for consciousness.

  • Mark Graham links to new work of his, done in collaboration, looking at ways to make the sharing economy work more fairly in low- and middle-income countries.

  • JSTOR Daily notes how the mystic Catholicism of the African kingdom of Kongo may have gone on to inspire slave-led revolutions in 18th century North America and Haiti.

  • Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at an exhibition examining the ambitious architecture of Yugoslavia.

  • The Map Room Blog links to a cartographer's argument about the continuing importance of paper maps.

  • Marginal Revolution shares one commenter's perception of causes or the real estate boom in New Zealand.

  • Neuroskeptic considers the role of the mysterious silent neurons in the human brain.

  • At NYR Daily, Guadeloupe writer Maryse Condé talks about her career as a writer and the challenges of identity for her native island.

  • Roads and Kingdoms shares a list of ten dishes reflecting the history of the city of Lisbon.

  • Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel takes a look at the promise of likely mini-Neptune Barnard's Star b as a target for observation, perhaps even life.

  • Window on Eurasia shares the perfectly plausible argument that, just as the shift of the Irish to the English language did not end Irish identity and nationalism, so might a shift to Russian among Tatars not end Tatar identity.

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  • Henry Farrell at Crooked Timber considers democracy as an information system.

  • The Crux shares what we have learned from our studies of the tusks of the mammoths.

  • D-Brief notes another landmark of the InSight mission: It brought two CubeSats with it to Mars.

  • JSTOR Daily takes a look at the odaliques of Matisse, paintings of North African women in intimate positions, in the contexts of colonialism and #metoo. What untold stories are there with these images?

  • Anakana Schofield writes at the LRB Blog about her problems finding CBD oil post-marijuana legalization in greater Vancouver.

  • The Map Room Blog notes the support of Popular Mechanics for paper maps, even in the digital age.

  • Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution praises Toby Green's new history of West Africa, A Fistful of Shells, a book that emphasizes the influence of West Africa in the Americas and the wider Atlantic world.

  • The NYR Daily carries a Tim Parks essay questioning whether it is worthwhile for an author to consciously seek out literary glory.

  • Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel reports on the possibility that rocky planets might get large moons only if they suffer large impacts.

  • Window on Eurasia reports on the insulting remarks of Russian liberal Oleg Kashin towards Ukrainians, and Tatars too, suggesting even liberal Russians might well be inclined to be anti-Ukrainian.

  • Arnold Zwicky notes a remarkable word error in noting the 40th anniversary of the deaths of George Moscone and Harvey Milk, changing "assassination" into "assignation".

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  • Architectuul talks about the remarkable and distinctive housing estates of south London, like Alexandra Road, currently under pressure from developers and unsympathetic governments.

  • Bad Astronomer Phil Plait takes a look at Bennu, set to be visited by the OSIRIS-REx probe.

  • The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly talks about meeting people you've met online via social networks, making friends even. Myself, I've done this all the time: Why not use these networks to their fullest in a fragmented vast world?

  • Centauri Dreams celebrates the now-completed mission of the exoplanet-hunting Kepler space telescope.

  • D-Brief looks at the distinctive seasons of Triton, and the still-open questions surrounding Neptune's largest moon.

  • At JSTOR Daily, Nancy Bilyeau writes about the import of the famous Gunpowder Plot of 1605, something often underplayed despite its potential for huge change and its connection to wider conflicts.

  • Language Hat notes the name of God in the Hebrew tradition, Yahweh. Where did it come from?

  • Language Log shares an interesting idea for helping to preserve marginalized languages: Why not throw a language party celebrating the language?

  • Lawyers, Guns and Money considers the question of what historical general or military leader would do best leading the armies of the living dead.

  • The NYR Daily looks at the problems with Erdogan's big investments in public infrastructure in Turkey, starting with the new Istanbul airport.

  • Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel considers the possibility of life in the very early universe. Earth-like life could have started within a billion years of the Big Bang; Earth life might even have begun earlier, for that matter.

  • Frank Jacobs at Strange Maps shows a map of Europe identifying which countries are the more chauvinistic in the continent.

  • Window on Eurasia notes the strength of the relatively recent division between Tatars and Bashkirs, two closely related people with separate identities grown strong in the Soviet era.

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  • Centauri Dreams notes, taking a look past more than a century of images of the famous star J1407 including its planet with massive ring system, the power of big data to reveal important things about the universe.

  • D-Brief takes a look at the discoveries of the Hayabusa2 probe at asteroid Ryugu.

  • Gizmodo notes that the planned landing of the Hayabusa2 probe on Ryugu has been postponed until 2019 in order to find a safe landing point on the rocky asteroid's surface.

  • Livia Gershon at JSTOR Daily takes a look at how modern Hallowe'en derives from the Celtic day of Samhain.

  • Joe. My. God. reports on a Gavin McInnes speech to the Young Republicans Club of New York City in which he says, despite his Proud Boys' crudity and violence, the two groups have much in common, that they need the Proud Boys even.

  • Anne Curzon at Lingua Franca takes a look at the changing definition of "fun" in recent decades.

  • The LRB Blog takes a look at the storied destruction by fire of the Soviet steamship Pobeda in the Black Sea in 1948.

  • Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution suggests
  • Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw sees the alt-right being fed by the radicalism of the far left.

  • Brittney Cooper at the Planetary Society Blog shares some images of heiligenschein from throughout the solar system.

  • Drew Rowsome looks at a recent horror novel by Douglas Clegg, The Infinite.

  • Window on Eurasia argues the ethnic distinction confirmed by Stalin between Tatars and Bashkirs has weakened both groups versus wider Russia.

  • Arnold Zwicky plays with the idea of the piñata, at multiple levels.

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  • Bad Astronomer Phil Plait shares the latest images of asteroid Ryugu.

  • Centauri Dreams reports on the equal-mass near-Earth asteroid binary 2017 YE5.

  • Far Outliers notes how corrosive fake news and propaganda can be, by looking at Orwell's experience of the Spanish Civil War.

  • The Frailest Thing's L.M. Sacasas looks at swarms versus networks, in the light of Bauman's thinking on freedom/security.

  • Joe. My. God. reports on how American pharmacy chain PVS fired a man--a Log Cabin Republican, no less--for calling the police on a black customer over a coupon.

  • JSTOR Daily links to a paper making the case that national service plays a useful role in modern countries.

  • Language Hat quotes from a beautiful Perry Anderson essay at the LRB about Proust.

  • Jeffey Herlihy-Mera writes/u> at Lingua Franca about his first-hand experiences of the multilingualism of Ecuador.

  • The NYR Daily takes a look at the art created by the prominent members of the Romanov dynasty.

  • The Power and Money's Noel Maurer has reposted a blog post from 2016 considering the question of just how much money the United States could extract, via military basing, from Germany and Japan and South Korea

  • Window on Eurasia <>suggests a new Russian language law that would marginalize non-Russian languages is provoking a renaissance of Tatar nationalism.

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  • Anthro{dendum] considers drifting on roads as an indicator of social dynamism, of creative reuse of road infrastructures by the young.

  • Bad Astronomer Phil Plait shares photos of the Christmas Tree Cluster, a portion of NGC 2264.

  • Centauri Dreams notes how the strange polar orbit of GJ 436b indicates the presence of a neighbouring exoplanet so far not detected directly.

  • Crooked Timber considers the import of perhaps racist codings in children's literature.

  • D-Brief examines how NASA is trying to quietly break the sound barrier.

  • Bruce Dorminey suggests building a Mars-orbit space station makes sense for us as our next major move in space.

  • Hornet Stories shares the story of queer male Lebanese belly dancer Moe Khansa and his art.

  • Language Hat notes how one student made substantial progress of decoding the ancient khipus, knotted string records, of the Incan civilization.

  • Lawyers, Guns and Money makes the obvious point that opioids actually do help people manage chronic pain effectively, that they have legitimate uses.

  • Allan Metcalf at Lingua Franca talks about some of the peculiarities of English as spoken in Utah.

  • Noah Smith at Noahpinion argues the disappearance of the positive impact of college on the wages who drop out before completing their program shows the importance of higher education as a generator of human capital, not as a simple sort of signal.

  • The NYR Daily looks at some particularly egregious instances of gerrymandering in the United States.

  • The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer examines the origins of street violence as a political force in modern Argentina.

  • Roads and Kingdoms looks at the Seoul neighbourhood of Haebangchon, "Little Pyongyang," a district once populated by North Korean and Vietnamese refugees now becoming a cosmopolitan district for people from around the world.

  • Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel notes the origins of the atoms of our body in stellar catastrophes detectable from across the universe.

  • Strange Company notes the case of Catherine Packard, reported dead in 1929 but then found alive. Whose body wasit?

  • Towleroad reports a study suggesting same-sex relationships tend to be more satisfying for their participants than opposite-sex relationships are for theirs.

  • Window on Eurasia notes how a Russian Orthodox group is joining the fight against Tatarstan's autonomy.

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  • Bad Astronomer reports on Kepler-90, now known to have eight planets.

  • Centauri Dreams notes a model suggesting low-mass worlds like Mars do not stay very habitable for long at all around red dwarf stars.

  • Citizen Science Salon notes how Puerto Ricans are monitoring water quality on their own after Hurricane Maria.

  • The Crux notes how climate change played a role in the fall of Rome. We know more about our environment than the Romans did, but we are not much less vulnerable.

  • D-Brief notes a feature film that has just been made about Ötzi, the man who body was famously found frozen in the Tyrolean Alps five thousand years ago.

  • Daily JSTOR notes how a postage stamp featuring an erupting volcano may have kept Nicaragua from hosting an inter-oceanic canal of its own.

  • Hornet Stories reports on some exciting queer musicians.

  • Language Hat links to an online dictionary of French slang from the 19th century.

  • Language Hat has a post dealing with some controversy created on its author's perspective on "they" as a singular pronoun. (Language changes, that's all I have to say on that.)

  • Lawyers, Guns and Money notes a pretty wrong-headed take from a right-wing news source on sexuality and dating and flirting. Gack.

  • Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel notes how the recent Kepler-90 press release shows how Kepler has reached the limit of the exoplanet science it can do. We need to put better technology at work.

  • At Whatever, John Scalzi has some interesting non-spoiler thoughts about the direction of The Last Jedi. I must see this, soon.

  • Window on Eurasia features a blithe dismissal by Putin of the idea that there is language or ethnic conflict at work. Tatars just need to learn Russian, apparently, though they can also keep Tatar as an extra.

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  • TVO notes that slow Internet speeds cause real problems for people in rural Ontario, focusing here on the southwest.

  • Kelly Boutsalis at NOW Toronto reports on new efforts to revive the Mohawk language.

  • At Open Democracy, Bulat Mukhamedzhanov describes how a centralization in power in Russia away from Tatarstan threatens the future of the Tatar language in education.

  • Ainslie Cruickshank reports on what seems to me to be an ill-judged controversy in a Toronto school over a folksong by Iroquois poet E. Pauline Johnson, "Land of the Silver Birch," calling it racist, over in the Toronto Star.

  • This politico.eu article examining the polarized media landscape in Catalonia, and wider Spain, is disturbing. Is everyone really talking past each other?

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  • Bad Astronomer Phil Plait notes J0045, once thought to be a star in Andromeda and but recognized as a binary black hole a thousand times further away.

  • Centauri Dreams notes the longevity of the Voyager mission.

  • D-Brief notes that some worms can thrive in a simulacrum of Mars soil.

  • The Dragon's Gaze notes an ambitious effort to try to detect a transit of Proxima Centauri b. Did the researchers pick something up?

  • Hornet Stories links to a report suggesting HIV denialism is worryingly common in parts of Russia.

  • Language Log reports on an apparently oddly bilingual Chinese/Vietnamese poster. Where did it come from?

  • The LRB Blog reports on how Tunisian Anouar Brahem fused jazz with Arabic music on his new album Blue Maqems.

  • The Map Room Blog links to a lecture by John Cloud on indigenous contributions to mapmaking in Alaska.

  • The NYR Daily looks at the grim position of Theresa May in Brexit negotiations.

  • The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer considers what would have happened if the Americas had not been populated in 1492. How would imperialism and settlement differ?

  • Roads and Kingdoms notes some of the architectural legacies--houses, for instance--of Basque settlement in the American West.

  • Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel notes three conundrums that neutrinos might be able to solve.

  • Window on Eurasia notes why Russia is hostile, despite its program of merging federal units, to the idea of uniting Tatarstan with Bashkortostan.

  • Using an interwar map of Imperial Airways routes, Alex Harrowell illustrates how the construction of globalized networks can make relatively marginal areas quite central.

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  • James Bow notes, by way of explaining new fiction he is writing, why a Mercury colony makes sense.

  • JSTOR Daily notes the life of Anita Brenner, a Mexican-born American Jewish writer who helped connect the two North American neighbours.

  • Far Outliers' Joel notes the cautious approach of the United States towards famine relief in the young Soviet Union in 1922.

  • The Frailest Thing's Michael Sacasas shares a brief Lewis Mumford quote, talking about how men became mechanical in spirit before they invented complex machines.

  • Hornet Stories celebrates the many ways in which the movie Addams Family Values is queer.

  • Lawyers, Guns and Money considers the idea of what "thoughtfulness" means in relation to Senator Al Franken.

  • The Map Room Blog shares a few more fantasy map generators.

  • The NYR Daily considers the thoughtful stamp art of Vincent Sardon.

  • Progressive Download's John Farrell recommends Adam Rutherford's new book, A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived, on genomics and history.

  • Towleroad notes that Demi Levato took trans Virginian politician Danica Roem her to the American Music Awards.

  • Window on Eurasia shares a Tatar cleric's speculation that Russia's undermining of the Tatar language in education might push Tatars away from Russia.

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  • Centauri Dreams takes a look at the exciting early news on potentially habitable nearby exoplanet Ross 128 b.

  • The Crux notes that evidence has been found of Alzheimer-like illness in dolphins. Is this, as the scientists argue, a symptom of a syndrome shared between us, big-brained social species with long post-fertility lifespans?

  • D-Brief takes a look at the idea of contemporary life on Mars hiding away in the icy regolith near the surface.

  • Far Outliers notes one argument that Germany lost the Second World War because of the poor quality of its leaders.

  • Gizmodo notes the incredibly bright event PS1-10adi, two and a half billion light-years away. What is it? No one knows ...

  • Lawyers, Guns and Money celebrates the end of the Mugabe dictatorship in Zimbabwe.

  • The Map Room Blog links to some fascinating detailed maps of the outcome of the Australian mail-in vote on marriage equality.

  • Roads and Kingdoms visits rural Mexico after the recent quake.

  • Cheri Lucas Rowlands shares some beautiful photos of fantastical Barcelona.

  • Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel notes the insights provided by Pluto's mysterious cool atmosphere, with its cooling haze, has implications for Earth at a time of global warming.

  • Window on Eurasia notes that Russia is not going to allow even Tatarstan to include the Tatar language as a mandatory school subject.

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  • Bad Astronomer Phil Plait looks at the discovery of rings around Kuiper belt dwarf planet Haumea, as does the Planetary Society Blog's Jason Davis.

  • The Big Picture, from the Boston Globe, shares photos of the devastation of Puerto Rico by Maria.

  • Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the strong support of many--most?--on the American right for apartheid.

  • The LRB Blog shares an article by Mike Davis looking at the vulnerability of California, especially Napa, to wildfires.

  • The Map Room Blog links to a beautiful detailed map of the French railway network.

  • The NYR Daily reports from Catalonia on the edge of a meltdown.

  • North's Justin Petrone writes about going hunting for mushroooms in Estonia.

  • Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel shares five especially noteworthy photos provided by NASA. (What, no Pale Blue Dot?)

  • Window on Eurasia suggests Russians in Tatarstan, unlike other groups, are unique in not wanting to learn Tatar.

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  • Far Outliers notes how the new Suez Canal helped create a network of coal-using port cities across Eurasia.

  • Hornet Stories notes that Serbia's out lesbian Prime Minister, Ana Brnabic, marched in Belgrade's pride parade.

  • Joe. My. God. notes a statement by the Pentagon that transgender troops can still re-enlist for the next few months.

  • Lawyers, Guns and Money notes a fundamentally ill-thought defense of colonialism by Bruce Gilley.

  • Marginal Revolutions notes that Swedish support for the far right is linked to perceptions of foreign threats to employment.

  • Out There looks at the last days of Cassini at Saturn.

  • Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw notes real estate shenanigans in greater Sydney.

  • Drew Rowsome has a critical, but positive, review of closeted gay author Frank M. Robinson's autobiography.

  • The Volokh Conspiracy sums up the outcome of the controversial monkey selfie copyright case.

  • Window on Eurasia suggests that Russian challenges to language legislation in Tatarstan hint at future challenges.

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  • blogTO lists some interesting things to do and see in Toronto's American neighbour, Buffalo.

  • The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly strongly defends contemporary journalism as essential for understanding the world.

  • Lawyers, Guns and Money rightly takes issue with the claim identity politics hinders the US left. Remember New Deal coalitions?

  • Marginal Revolution notes just how expensive it is to run Harvard.

  • Otto Pohl notes the upcoming 76th anniversary of the Soviet deportation of the Volga Germans.

  • The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer reports on the remarkably fluent code-switching between English and French of some Washington D.C. subway riders.

  • Strange Maps notes rival food and fabric maps of India and Pakistan.

  • Tricia Wood at Torontoist argues that, for environmental and economic reasons, Ontario needs high-speed rail.

  • Window on Eurasia suggests Tatarstan has done a poor job of defending its sovereignty from the Russian government.

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  • Citizen Science Salon links to some ongoing crowdsourced experiments that non-scientists can take part in.

  • The LRB Blog reports on the return of Newt Gingrich to the American political scene.

  • The NYR Daily compares Donald Trump to a 19th century counterpart, Andrew Jackson.

  • Roads and Kingdoms reports on the now rather different cocaine problem of Medellín, Colombia.

  • Starts with a Bang's Ethan Siegel reports on a paper suggesting potential problems with gravitational observatory LIGO.

  • Towleroad notes a recent sharp drop in new HIV diagnoses in the United Kingdom, thanks to treatment and PrEP.

  • Window on Eurasia reports on projected long-run economic decline in Russia, argues about the potential for instability in Tatarstan, and reports on Belarusianization.

  • Arnold Zwicky describes Silver Age Rainbow Batman and his later pride appearances.

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  • Language Hat blogs about appearances of Nahuatl in Los Angeles, in television and in education.
  • Language Log talks about "Zhonghua minzu", meaning "Chinese nation" or "Chinese race" depending on the translation.

  • Marginal Revolution notes that Canada, with inelastic production, might have a marijuana shortage come legalization/
  • In the NYR Daily, Christopher de Bellaigue wonders if Britain--the West, even--might be on the verge of a descent into communal violence.

  • Peter Rukavina looks at the accessibility of VIA Rail's data on trade arrivals and departures.

  • Starts with a Bang's Ethan Siegel notes that, in the far distant starless future, the decay of binary brown dwarf orbits can still start stars.

  • Torontoist shares photos of the Dyke March.

  • Window on Eurasia argues that Tatarstan's tradition of bourgeois and intellectually critical nationalism could have wider consequences, in Russia and beyond.

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  • blogTO describes the changing designs of TTC maps over the past generations.

  • Cody Delistraty links to an article of his contrasting and comparing Donald Trump to Louis XIV.

  • Marginal Revolution shares facts about Qatar in this time of its issues.

  • Peter Rukavina describes the latest innovations in his homebrew blogging.

  • Towleroad notes the sad anniversary of the Pulse massacre in Orlando.

  • Window on Eurasia argues that there is still potent for Idel-Ural, a coalition of non-Russian minorities by the Volga.

  • Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell examines how Labour and the Tories made use of Big Data, and how Labour did much better.

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  • blogTO reports on the history of Toronto's Wellington Street.

  • Dangerous Minds introduces me to the grim American gothic that is Wisconsin Death Trip. What happened to Black River Falls in the 1890s?

  • The Dragon's Gaze links to hypotheses about KIC 8462852, one suggesting KIC 8462852 has four exoplanets, another talking about a planet's disintegration.

  • The Dragon's Tales links to a paper modeling the mantles of icy moons.

  • Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at small city NIMBYism in the Oregon city of Eugene.

  • The LRB Blog reports on toxically racist misogyny directed towards Labour's Diane Abbott by Tory minister David Davis, "misogynoir" as it is called.

  • Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw reports on the elections in Indonesia, a country increasingly important to Australia.

  • Peter Rukavina describes how the builders of his various indie phones, promising in their own rights, keep dropping them.

  • The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer is optimistic that NAFTA will survive mostly as is.

  • The Volokh Conspiracy examines the ruling against Trump's immigration order on the grounds that its planners explicitly designed it as an anti-Muslim ban.

  • Window on Eurasia suggests that the treaty-based federalism of Tatarstan within Russia is increasingly unpopular with many wanting a more centralized country.

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