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Charlie Stross at Antipope shares an essay he recently presented on artificial intelligence and its challenges for us.

P. Kerim Friedman writes at {anthro}dendum about the birth of the tea ceremony in the Taiwan of the 1970s.

Anthropology net reports on a cave painting nearly 44 thousand years old in Indonesia depicting a hunting story.

Architectuul looks at some temporary community gardens in London.

Bad Astronomy reports on the weird history of asteroid Ryugu.

The Buzz talks about the most popular titles borrowed from the Toronto Public Library in 2019.

Caitlin Kelly talks at the Broadside Blog about her particular love of radio.

Centauri Dreams talks about the role of amateur astronomers in searching for exoplanets, starting with LHS 1140 b.

John Quiggin at Crooked Timber looks at what is behind the rhetoric of "virtue signalling".

Dangerous Minds shares concert performance from Nirvana filmed the night before the release of Nevermind.

Bruce Dorminey notes new evidence that, even before the Chixculub impact, the late Cretaceous Earth was staggering under environmental pressures.

Myron Strong at the Everyday Sociology Blog writes about how people of African descent in the US deal with the legacies of slavery in higher education.

Far Outliers reports on the plans in 1945 for an invasion of Japan by the US.

L.M. Sacasas at The Frailest Thing gathers together a collection of the author's best writings there.

Gizmodo notes the immensity of the supermassive black hole, some 40 billion solar masses, at the heart of galaxy Holm 15A 700 million light-years away.

Russell Arben Fox at In Media Res writes about the issue of how Wichita is to organize its civic politics.

io9 argues that the 2010s were a decade where the culture of the spoiler became key.

The Island Review points readers to the podcast Mother's Blood, Sister's Songs, an exploration of the links between Ireland and Iceland.

Joe. My. God. reports on the claim of the lawyer of the killer of a mob boss that the QAnon conspiracy inspired his actions. This strikes me as terribly dangerous.

JSTOR Daily looks at a study examining scholarly retractions.

Language Hat shares an amusing cartoon illustrating the relationships of the dialects of Arabic.

Language Log lists ten top new words in the Japanese language.

Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at the dissipation of American diplomacy by Trump.

The LRB Blog looks at the many problems in Sparta, Greece, with accommodating refugees, for everyone concerned.

Marginal Revolution links to a paper suggesting the decline of the one-child policy in China has diminished child trafficking, among other crimes.

Sean Marshall, looking at transit in Brampton, argues that transit users need more protection from road traffic.

Russell Darnley shares excerpts from essays he wrote about the involvement of Australia in the Vietnam War.

Peter Watts talks about his recent visit to a con in Sofia, Bulgaria, and about the apocalypse, here.

The NYR Daily looks at the corporatization of the funeral industry, here.

Diane Duane writes, from her own personal history with Star Trek, about how one can be a writer who ends up writing for a media franchise.

Jim Belshaw at Personal Reflections considers the job of tasting, and rating, different cuts of lamb.

The Planetary Society Blog looks at a nondescript observatory in the Mojave desert of California that maps the asteroids of the solar system.

Roads and Kingdoms interviews Eduardo Chavarin about, among other things, Tijuana.

Drew Rowsome loves the SpongeBob musical.

Peter Rukavina announces that Charlottetown has its first public fast charger for electric vehicles.

The Russian Demographics Blog considers the impact of space medicine, here.

The Signal reports on how the Library of Congress is making its internet archives more readily available, here.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel considers how the incredibly isolated galaxy MCG+01-02-015 will decay almost to nothing over almost uncountable eons.

Strange Company reports on the trial and execution of Christopher Slaughterford for murder. Was there even a crime?

Strange Maps shares a Coudenhove-Kalergi map imagining the division of the world into five superstates.

Understanding Society considers entertainment as a valuable thing, here.

Denis Colombi at Une heure de peine announces his new book, Où va l'argent des pauvres?

John Scalzi at Whatever looks at how some mailed bread triggered a security alert, here.

Window on Eurasia reports on the massive amount of remittances sent to Tajikistan by migrant workers, here.

Arnold Zwicky notes a bizarre no-penguins sign for sale on Amazon.

Why not build a public beach in the Montréal neighbourhood of Lachine? Global News considers.

The Vietnamese cuisine of New Orleans does look good. VICE reports.

CityLab describes an effort to build a smart city in Berlin, in Siemensstadt. I wish Berliners better outcomes than what Toronto seems to be getting in the Port Lands.

Guardian Cities reports on what seems to me to be a terrible plan to flood the ancient settlement of Hasankeyf in Turkey for dams.

Saša Petricic at CBC looks at how the political consensus in Hong Kong has broken down, perhaps irretrievably.

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?

Anthrodendum reviews the book Fistula Politics, the latest from the field of medical anthropology.

Architectuul takes a look at post-war architecture in Germany, a country where the devastation of the war left clean slates for ambitious new designers and architects.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait looks at newly discovered Kuiper Belt object 2008 VG 18.

Laura Agustín at Border Thinking takes a look at the figure of the migrant sex worker.

Centauri Dreams features an essay by Al Jackson celebrating the Apollo 8 moon mission.

D-Brief notes how physicists manufactured a quark soup in a collider to study the early universe.

Dangerous Minds shares some photos of a young David Bowie.

Angelique Harris at the Everyday Sociology Blog takes a look at what the social sciences have to say about sexuality and dating among millennial Americans.

Gizmodo notes the odd apparent smoothness of Ultima Thule, target of a very close flyby by New Horizons on New Year's Day.

Hornet Stories notes the censorship-challenging art by Slava Mogutin available from the Tom of Finland store.

Imageo shares orbital imagery of the eruption of Anak Krakatau in Indonesia, trigger of a devastating volcanic tsunami.

Nick Stewart at The Island Review writes beautifully about his experience crossing the Irish Sea on a ferry, from Liverpool to Belfast.

Lyman Stone at In A State of Migration shares the story, with photos, of his recent whirlwind trip to Vietnam.

JSTOR Daily considers whether or not fan fiction might be a useful tool to promote student literacy.

Language Hat notes a contentious reconstruction of the sound system of obscure but fascinating Tocharian, an extinct Indo-European language from modern XInjiang.

Dan Nexon at Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the irreversible damage being caused by the Trump Administration to the United States' foreign policy.

Marginal Revolution notes a paper suggesting users of Facebook would need a payment of at least one thousand dollars to abandon Facebook.

Lisa Nandy at the NYR Daily argues that the citizens of the United Kingdom need desperately to engage with Brexit, to take back control, in order to escape catastrophic consequences from ill-thought policies.

Marc Rayman at the Planetary Society Blog celebrates the life and achievements of the Dawn probe.

The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer notes that so many Venezuelans are fleeing their country because food is literally unavailable, what with a collapsing agricultural sector.

The Russian Demographics Blog breaks down polling of nostalgia for the Soviet Union among Russians.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel notes that simply finding oxygen in the atmosphere of an exoplanet is not by itself proof of life.

Ilya Somin at the Volokh Conspiracy reports on how the United States is making progress towards ending exclusionary zoning.

Whatever's John Scalzi shares an interview with the lawyer of Santa Claus.

Window on Eurasia reports on a fascinating paper, examining how some Russian immigrants in Germany use Udmurt as a family language.

Arnold Zwicky takes a look at the lives of two notable members of the Swiss diaspora in Paris' Montmartre.

The Crux considers the anthropic principle. To what degree are the natural laws of the universe naturally suited to supporting life?

D-Brief notes the detection of an ultra-hot magnetosphere about white dwarf GALEXJ014636.8+323615, 1200 light-years away.

Far Outliers notes how how Japan's civil wars in the 1860s were not a straightforward matter of conflicts between supporters of the shogun and supporters of the emperor.

Amanda Woytus at JSTOR Daily notes how the ever-popular Baby-Sitters Club series of children's novels reflected a now-gone sense of an American life that could be safe.

Language Log looks at the use of Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary in a Vietnamese patriotic slogan.

Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at the manufactured scandal around the supposed idea that Hillary Clinton wants to run for the American presidency in 2020.

Lorna Finlayson writes at the LRB Blog, using the example of her great-uncle killed at the Somme, about how representing the dead of the First World War as willing sacrificers of their lives against tyranny misrepresents them.

Rachelle Krygier writes at Roads and Kingdoms about how finding enough food to eat can be a day-long challenge if you happen to live in Venezuela.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explores the question of who, exactly, determined that the universe was expanding.

Window on Eurasia quotes a Russian analyst who makes the point that, given many of the other Soviet successor states are going in directions away from Russia, it makes no sense to talk about a "post-Soviet space".

Eli Tareq Lynch writes at Daily Xtra about how the Lebanese band Mashrou' Leila helps them express their queer Arab identity.

Laura Sciarpelletti at CBC interviews Raziel Reid about his new gay teen novel Kens.

Them shares the heartwarming story of two women, contestants on Vietnam's version of The Bachelor, who realized that they actually loved each other. That they have apparently gotten public support is an added bonus.

Edward Siddons at The Guardian notes the threats to the leather scene, with property development threatening established venues coming at the end of a slew of menaces including HIV, the sheer cost of leather, and shifting cultural norms.

Jeff Leavell's personal article at VICE about impact of The AIDS Memorial Instagram is heart-felt. (Myself, I like every post there; the act of remembering can be, among other things, a victory.)

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait shares stunning photos taken by Hubble of distant galaxy cluster RXC J0142.9+4438, three billion light-years away.

The Buzz celebrates the Hugo victory of N.K. Jemisin, and points readers to her various works.

Centauri Dreams links to a paper considering if gravitational wave-producing events might be used as ersatz beacons by hypothetical civilizations hoping to transmit to distant observers of the event.

The Crux considers how we can get the four billion people alive currently without Internet access online.

D-Brief notes that a class of violet aurora known as STEVE is actually not an aurora at all, but a "skyglow" product of a different sort of process.

Far Outliers takes a look at the history of slavery in Mauritius and the nearby and associated Seychelles.

Kieran Healy shares a funny cartoon, "A Field Guide to Social Scientists."

JSTOR Daily takes a look at the story of the stolen children of Argentina, abducted by the military dictatorship, and the fight to find them again.

Language Hat links to an article considering the task faced by some in bringing the novel to Africans, not only creating readerships but creating new readerships in indigenous languages displaced by English and French.

Paul Campos at Lawyers, Guns and Money criticizes John McCain in particular connection with the mythology surrounding the POWs and MIA of the United States in the Vietnam War.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel goes through the evidence supporting the idea that our universe must be embedded in a vaster multiverse.

Window on Eurasia notes how Russians have come to recognize Belarusians as a nation separate from their own, if less distinctly separate than Ukrainians.

Arnold Zwicky considers a visual pun inspired by Route 66: Is the image a cartoon?

St. Cecilia Church, a Roman Catholic church at Annette and Pacific perhaps most notable for its popular Vietnamese mass, is beautiful against the deep blue of twilight.

St. Cecilia from the front at twilight #toronto #stcecilia #annettestreet #churches #highparknorth #latergram

Shrine at St. Cecilia #toronto #stcecilia #annettestreet #churches #shrine #highparknorth #pacificave #pacificavenue #latergram

St. Cecilia from the back at twilight #toronto #stcecilia #annettestreet #churches #shrine #highparknorth #pacificave #pacificavenue #latergram

Anthropology.net notes that the discovery of an ancient Homo sapiens jawbone in Israel pushes back the history of our species by quite a bit.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait shares stunning photos of spiral galaxy NGC 1398.

Centauri Dreams considers the ways in which the highly reflective surface of Europa might be misleading to probes seeking to land on its surface.

The Dragon's Tales rounds up more information about extrasolar visitor 'Oumuamua.

Far Outliers considers the staggering losses, human and territorial and strategic, of Finland in the Winter War.

Hornet Stories notes preliminary plans to set up an original sequel to Call Me Be Your Name later in the 1980s, in the era of AIDS.

Russell Arben Fox at In Media Res considers if Wichita will be able to elect a Wichitan as governor of Kansas, for the first time in a while.

io9 takes a look at the interesting ways in which Star Wars and Star Trek have been subverting traditional audience assumptions about these franchises.

JSTOR Daily links to a paper examining what decision-makers in North Vietnam were thinking on the eve of the Tet offensive, fifty years ago.

The LRB Blog takes a look at a new book examining the 1984 IRA assassination attempt against Margaret Thatcher.

The Map Room Blog links to an article examining how school districts, not just electoral districts, can be products of gerrymandering.

Marginal Revolution seeks suggestions for good books to explain Canada to non-Canadians, and comes up with a shortlist of its own.

Kenan Malik at the NYR Daily takes a look at contemporary efforts to justify the British Empire as good for its subjects. Who is doing this, and why?

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.

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.

Centauri Dreams takes a look at how stellar winds from red dwarfs complicate the habitability of planets in their circumstellar habitable zones.

The Crux, noting the 75th anniversary of the atomic age, notes some non-nuclear weapons achievements of this era.

D-Brief notes the exceptional strength of prehistoric women farmers.

Daily JSTOR takes a look at the instantaneity and power--frightening power, even--of celebrity culture in an era where technology gives us access to the intimate details of their lives.

Far Outliers notes that Pearl Buck, American author and missionary in China, actually was egalitarian and feminist.

The Frailest Thing's Michael Sacasas considers all those texts created in the past, of importance then and relevant even now, which have been forgotten. How can the canon be restored?

Imageo shares photos of the eruption of Mount Agung, in Bali.

Language Hat notes the intense interest of Roman Italy in all things Egyptian, including hieroglyphics. Where, exactly, was the like European interest in the cultures it colonized more recently?

Language Log tries to find people who can identify the source language of a particular text. It seems Turkic ...

Lingua France talks about Robert Luis Stevenson and his opinions (and the blogger's) about the weather of Edinburgh.

Lovesick Cyborg notes the seriously destabilizing potential of roboticization on human employment. To what extent can improving education systems help?

Tariq Ali at the LRB Blog talks about the latest religious-political crisis in Pakistan.

The Map Room Blog links to an article describing a Vietnamese historian's search for cartographic proof of his country's claims in the South China Sea.

The NYR Daily considers an interesting question: how, exactly, do you get an actor to act naturally for film? What strategies do filmmakers use?

The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer notes a new genetic study hinting at a much greater survival of indigenous populations--women, at least--in Argentina than was previously suspected.

Roads and Kingdoms notes an interesting effort to try to preserve and restore the older districts of Kabul.

Seriously Science notes the exploration of the microbial life populating the coffee machine sludge of some inquisitive scientists.

Window on Eurasia notes that substantially Russian-populated northern Kazakhstan is at risk of becoming a new Russian target, especially after Nazarbayev goes.

Arnold Zwicky shares some thoughts on people of colour and the LGBTQ rainbow flag.

This examination by Bendetta Rossi of the ways in which immigration, in the context of the United Kingdom, has to remain an option even in the Brexit era is compelling. Open Democracy has more here.

This Nicolas Lainez study suggesting that Vietnamese migrants in the United Kingdom rescued from exploitative conditions might be made the worse off by the rescue, plunging them and their backers into debt, is distressing. How should they be helped? More here at Open Democracy.

Nicholas Keung describes how Canadian meat packers want their foreign labour forces to enjoy permanent resident status, so that they can have access to stable and reliable populations of workers. The Toronto Star has it.

Mary Ormsby describes how North Korean migrants in Toronto are facing the risk of deportation, to South Korea. More here, at the Toronto Star.

The Canadian federal government and Atlantic Canadian provincial governments have introduced a new program to try to direct more immigrants to the east coast. The Toronto Star has the article.

Scott Wheeler writes about past eminences of Toronto, people like Conn Smythe and Raymond Massey.
Joanna Slater writes in The Globe and Mail about the symbolism of Confederate--and other--statuary in Richmond, former capital of the South.

Reuters reports on a Vietnamese businessman abducted by his country from the streets of Berlin. Germany is unhappy.

Jeremiah Ross argues at VICE that very high levels of tourism in New York City are displacing native-born residents.

Looking to protests most recently in Barcelona, Elle Hunt in The Guardian looks at ways to make mass tourism more affordable for destinations.

Dangerous Minds points readers to Cindy Sherman's Instagram account. ("_cindysherman_", if you are interested.)

Language Hat takes note of a rare early 20th century Judaeo-Urdu manuscript.

Language Log lists some of the many, many words and phrases banned from Internet usage in China.

The argument made at Lawyers, Guns and Money about Trump's many cognitive defects is frightening. How can he be president?

The LRB Blog <"a href="https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2017/08/03/lynsey-hanley/labour-and-traditional-voters/">notes that many traditional Labour voters, contra fears, are in fact willing to vote for non-ethnocratic policies.

The NYR Daily describes a book of photos with companion essays by Teju Cole that I like.

Of course, as Roads and Kingdom notes, there is such a thing as pho craft beer in Vietnam.

Peter Rukavina notes
Towleroad notes a love duet between Kele Okereke and Olly Alexander.

The Volokh Conspiracy seems unconvinced by the charges against Kronos programmer Marcus Hutchins.

Craig S. Smith notes the profound cynicism of Kellie Leitch in using one Syrian refugee's abuse of his wife to criticize the entire program.

CBC's Carolyn Dunn notes that the story of the Trinh family, boat people from Vietnam who came to Canada, will be made into a Heritage Minute.
James Jeffrey describes for the Inter Press Service how refugees from Eritrea generally receive warm welcome in rival Ethiopia.

Beyond the Beyond links to a US military science fiction contest.

The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly notes that journalism is meant to offer criticisms of the president.

Crooked Timber has an open forum about the inauguration.

Dangerous Minds shares photos from seminal 1980-era London club Billy's.

The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper reporting on a superflare on brown dwarf EPIC 220186653.

A Fistful of Euros' features Doug Merrill's meditations on 2009 and 2017.

Language Log looks at the etymology of the Vietnamese name "Nguyen."

Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at Donald Trump's desire for a military parade.

The LRB Blog looks at Donald Trump as a winner.

Marginal Revolution links to a book on the economics of skyscrapers and notes a skyscraper boom in China.

Steve Munro looks at buses and their distribution on TTC networks.

Transit Toronto looks at how Exhibition Place work will complicate multiple bus routes.

Window on Eurasia notes low levels of Russian productivity, shares a Russian argument as to why Russia and the United States can never be allies in the long term, looks at counterproductive Russian interference in Circassian diaspora institutions, and shares argument suggesting Trump's style of language explains why he wants to forego complicated multilateral negotiations for bilateral ones where he can dominate.

Crossposts: http://rfmcdpei.livejournal.com/5449992.html

Bloomberg notes concerns over Northern Ireland's frontiers, looks at how Japanese retailers are hoping to take advantage of Vietnam's young consumers, examines the desperation of Venezuelans shopping in Colombia, looks at Sri Lankan interest in Chinese investment, suggests oil prices need to stay below 40 dollars US a barrel for Russia to reform, observes that Chinese companies are increasingly reluctant to invest, and suggests Frankfurt will gain after Brexit.

Bloomberg View gives advice for the post-Brexit British economy, looks at how Chinese patterns in migration are harming young Chinese, suggests Hillary should follow Russian-Americans in not making much of Putin's interference, and looks at the Israeli culture wars.

CBC considers the decolonization of placenames in the Northwest Territories, notes Canada's deployment to Latvia was prompted by French domestic security concerns, and looks at an ad promoting the Albertan oil sands that went badly wrong in trying to be anti-homophobic.

The Inter Press Service considers the future of Turkey and looks at domestic slavery in Oman.

MacLean's looks at China's nail house owners, resisting development.

The National Post reports from the Colombia-Venezuela border.

Open Democracy considers the nature of work culture in the austerity-era United Kingdom, looks at traditions of migration and slavery in northern Ghana, examines European bigotry against eastern Europeans, and examines the plight of sub-Saharan migrants stuck in Morocco.

Universe Today notes two nearby potentially habitable rocky worlds, reports that the Moon's Mare Imbrium may have been result of a hit by a dwarf planet, and reports on Ceres' lack of large craters.

Crossposts: http://rfmcdpei.livejournal.com/5072527.html

Bloomberg notes the decline of Japan's solar energy boom with falling subsidies, suggests 1970s-style stagflation will be back, looks at how an urban area in Japan is dealing with overcrowding, looks at Russia-NATO tensions, and examines how Ireland is welcoming British bankers.

Bloomberg View looks at the return of Russian tourists to Turkey, notes Russia is not suffering from a brain drain, looks at the Brexit vote as examining the power of the old, and argues the Chilcot report defends Blair from accusations of lying.

CBC reports on the end of Blackberry's manufacturing of the Classic.

The Globe and Mail notes that, once, gay white men were on the outside.

The Independent describes claims that refugees in Libya who cannot pay their brokers risk being rendered into organs.

The Inter Press Service describes the horrors of Sudan and looks at how Russia will use Brexit to fight sanctions in the European Union.

MacLean's reports on the opening up of the Arctic Ocean to fishing and looks at Winnipeg support for Pride in Steinbach.

The National Post reports on the plague of Pablo Escobar's hippos in Colombia, looks at Vietnam's protests of Chinese military maneuvers, and examines Turkey's foreign policy catastrophes.

Open Democracy notes the desperate need for stability in Libya.

The Smithsonian reports on how video games are becoming the stuff of history.

Crossposts: http://rfmcdpei.livejournal.com/5048451.html

Bloomberg notes a report of Egypt's discovery of the wreckage of the crashed EgyptAir jet, reports on the visit of a IMF team to Mozambique, and looks at Vietnam's success in capturing Southeast Asian trade with the European Union.

Bloomberg View notes that Donald Trump's candidacy can mean bad things for the Republican Party.

CBC looks at how a top export from Tibet is a parasitic fungus, and looks at controversy over a CSIS evaluation of diaspora communities and terrorism.

MacLean's looks at the wife of the Orlando shooting.

The National Post notes the retraction of an ASEAN statement about maritime borders with China.

Open Democracy carries an ill-judged radical Brexiteer's statement. All I can say is that socialism in one country is not likely, certainly not with the Tories in charge.

The Toronto Star notes the fears of tax authorities that Conrad Black might abscond without paying his taxes.

Universe Today notes the discovery, in a Swedish quarry, of a type of meteorite no longer present in the solar system.

Wired reports on the second LIGO discovery and notes the import of The Onion in times of trouble.

Crossposts: http://rfmcdpei.livejournal.com/5015527.html

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