• Antipope's Charlie Stross wonders if the politics of Trump might mean an end to the British nuclear deterrent.
• Centauri Dreams shares Andrew LePage's evaluation of the TRAPPIST-1 system, where he concludes that there are in fact three plausible candidates for habitable status there.
• Dangerous Minds shares the gender-bending photographs of Norwegian ( Read more... )

• blogTO notes that yesterday was a temperature record here in Toronto, reaching 12 degrees Celsius in the middle of February.
• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly writes about the pleasure of using old things.
• Joe. My. God. notes the death of Roe v Wade plaintiff Norma McCorvey.
• Language Hat notes that, apparently, dictionaries are hot again because ( Read more... )

Anne Kingston of MacLean's interviews Lianne Yoshida, the doctor who has begun performing the first abortions in decades on Prince Edward Island.

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Passing along Harbord Street with a visiting friend on Monday, I snapped this photo of 85 Harbord Street.


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On the 25th of March, when abortion on Prince Edward Island was still a contentious essay, the Everyday Sociology Blog featured an essay by social scientist Teresa Irene Gonzales. In "Spatial Inequity and Access to Abortion", Gonzales noted how some American state governments tried to regulate abortion out of existence indirectly, by cutting down ( Read more... )

• The Boston Globe's Big Picture reports on the scene from Palmyra after the expulsion of ISIS.
• James Bow links to a documentary on the search for Planet Nine.
• The Dragon's Tales speculates that the ability to enter torpor might have saved mammals from the en of the Cretaceous extinction.
• Honourary Canadian Philip Turner discovers the Chiac dialect of ( Read more... )

• Anthropology.net reports on a study suggesting that ritual human sacrifice paved the way for complex societies.
• Beyond the Beyond's Bruce Sterling shares an essay skeptical about the idea of a sharing economy.
• D-Brief and The Dragon's Tales reports on a study of some South American mummies suggesting that the vast majority of populations in the pre- ( Read more... )

• Anthropology.net notes the discovery of Australopithecus remains east of the Great Rift Valley.
• blogTO suggests that Toronto restaurants east of the Don face trouble in attracting customers.
• Patrick Cain maps gentrification over the past decade in Toronto and Vancouver.
• Geocurrents polls its readers as to what themes they would like the blog to ( Read more... )

Wireds Sarah Zhang describes how the spread of the Zika virus has influenced the abortion debate in South America.

With no vaccine, no cure, and without even a reliable diagnosis, doctors are at a loss for how to protect their patients from the Zika virus. In the past year, the mosquito-borne disease has spread throughout Latin America, sparking ( Read more... )

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