A Bit More Detail

"Things look so bad everywhere
In this whole world, what is fair
We will walk the line
And try to see
Falling behind in what could be

• Urban Toronto looked at indigenous uses being proposed for the West Don Lands, here.


• That Toronto has become a major hub for Shopify is a significant economic factor. Global News reports.


• There will be an emergency exercise held at Union Station. Global News reports.


• Transit Toronto notes the opening of a new York Regional Transit bus hub at the Vaughan Metropolitan Centre.


• Transit Toronto shared video of a recent TTC public art project, "A Streetcar Called Toronto", here.


• Venerable Toronto movie rental store Videoflicks will be closing. blogTO reports.


• The Evergreen Brickworks in the Don Valley will be hosting a winter village this season. blogTO reports.

• Tanya Mok at blogTO shares a vintage short film from 1970 at the Toronto Coach Terminal, "Depot."


• The shortages of food in Toronto food banks are terrible. CBC Toronto reports.


• Dogs will be free to swim in select City of Toronto swimming pools this weekend. CBC Toronto reports.


• I will have to look for these TTC floor stickers installed at St. George station. blogTO reports.


• Richard Trapunski leads a roundtable discussion at NOW Toronto about the challenges facing party promoters in a gentrifying Toronto.

• Bad Astronomy identifies the most distant globular cluster known to exist around the Milky Way Galaxy, PSO J174.0675-10.8774 some 470 thousand light-years away.


• Centauri Dreams looks at the strange ring of the Kuiper Belt dwarf planet Haumea.


• Crooked Timber looks at an ill-constructed biography of Eric Hobsbawm.


• D-Brief notes an experiment that proves antimatter obeys the same laws of quantum mechanics as regular matter, at least insofar as the double-slit experiment is concerned.


• Earther notes that life in Antarctica depends critically on the presence of penguin feces.


• Imageo looks at awesome satellite imagery of spring storms in North America.


• The Island Review interviews Irene de la Torre, a translator born on the Spanish island of Mallorca, about her experiences and thoughts on her insular experiences.


• Joe. My. God. notes a new deal between Gilead Pharmaceuticals and the American government to make low-cost PrEP available to two hundred thousand people.


• JSTOR Daily looks at the many ways in which The Great Gatsby reflects the norms of the Jazz Age.


• Paul Campos at Lawyers, Guns and Money is rightly critical of the Sam Harris suggestion that white supremacism is not an ideology of special concern, being only a fringe belief.


• Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution solicits questions for an upcoming interview with demographer of religion Eric Kaufmann.


• Russell Darnley at Maximos62 shares cute video of otters frolicking on the Singapore River.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel asks when the universe became transparent to light.


• Arnold Zwicky shares photos of his blooming flower gardens.

• CBC reports on the exceptional problems facing Indigenous people hoping to rent housing in Toronto.


• The Mohawk community of Kahnawake is divided by a new proposal to open up slot machines. CBC reports.


• Kanesatake has a new app aiming to promote knowledge of the Mohawk language among its users. CBC reports.


• An Edmonton man is trying to compile an archive of Indigenous audiovisual material for future generations, Global News reports.


• This article at The Conversation places Jody Wilson-Raybould in a tradition of Indigenous women who were tellers of truths to power.

• Bad Astronomy shares a photo taken by the H-ATLAS satellite of deep space, a sea of pale dusty dots each one a galaxy.


• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly shares, in photos and in prose, 11 views of New York City. (What a fantastic metropolis!)


• Centauri Dreams hosts an essay from Alex Tolley suggesting that most life in the universe is lithophilic, living in the stable warm interiors of planets.


• Cody Delistraty links to an essay of his looking at the tensions, creative and personal, between Renoir father and son.


• Gizmodo links to a paper suggesting the mysterious ASASSN-14li event can be explained by a star falling into a supermassive galactic black hole, the analysis suggesting the black hole was rotating at half the speed of light.


• JSTOR Daily looks at the mysterious dancing plagues of medieval Europe.


• The LRB Blog looks at casual anti-Semitism in British sports.


• Marginal Revolution links to a paper suggesting that the legacies of Confucian state-building in China may have depressed long-term economic growth in particularly Confucian areas.


• The Planetary Society Blog reports on the success of the Chang'e-4 probe, complete with photos and videos sent from the far side of the Moon.


• Roads to Kingdoms shares the photography of a changing Vietnam by Simone Sapienza.


• Drew Rowsome reviews the ongoing Toronto comedy show Unsafe Space, and enjoys it.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel looks at the achievements of the TESS planet-hunting satellites, looking for nearby planets, emphasizing its achievements in the Pi Mensae system.


• Window on Eurasia considers a fascinating alternate history. Could Beria, had he survived Stalin, have overseen a radical liberalization of the Soviet Union in the early Cold War?