• blogTO notes that Toronto's housing market is now hotter than Vancouver's.
• The Crux looks at progress in human reproductive technology, including in ectogenesis.
• D-Brief looks at a new simulation of an asteroid impacting the ocean.
• Dangerous Minds reports on a French cement truck made into a giant mirrored disco ball.
• In Media Res' Russell Arben Fox ( Read more... )

• blogTO notes Niagara Falls' new light show.
• Body Horrors reports on a 1980 epidemic of MRSA among Detroit drug users.
• Centauri Dreams describes the final orbits of Cassini around Saturn.
• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper suggesting Tabby's Star is being star-mined.
• Language Log looks at an element of Chinese slang regarding telecommunications.

• Antipope Charlie Stross imagines future directions of evolution.
• Anthropology.net reports on a reconstruction of the vocal tract of Iceman Otzi.
• blogTO notes the temporary return of the Dufferin jog owing to construction.
• Centauri Dreams considers asteroids.
• The Dragon's Tales reports on the expected crash of China's Tiangong-1 space station.

• 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 ( Read more... )

• blogTO notes the impending end of Parkdale's Skyline Diner.
• Centauri Dreams reports on the efforts to track the origins of the 2013 Chelyabinsk impactor.
• D-Brief notes the development of ultra-durable, high-capacity glass memory chips.
• Dangerous Minds directs readers to a walking tour of punk London.
• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper examining the ( Read more... )

Quite honestly, there is not much I can add to Evan Gough's Universe Today article apart from saying that news stories like these are why I can't take Russia very seriously. That this news story may well be true simply takes this to another level.

In a shocking announcement, Russian scientists say they want to test improved ballistic missiles on ( Read more... )

• blogTO shares photos of the first snowfall of the season.
• Centauri Dreams considers the OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe.
• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper looking at the unexpected complexities of the 30 Arietis system.
• Joe. My. God. notes the new claims that Zhou Enlai was gay.
• Marginal Revolution talks about ongoing issues of note in 2015.

• blogTO notes the quiet death of the payphone in Toronto.
• Centauri Dreams considers Centaurs as possible impactors.
• The Dragon's Gaze notes the exotic materials likely to exist on super-Earths.
• The Dragon's Tales notes a Taiwan presidential candidate opposed to union with China.
• Far Outliers notes the origins of the Soviet ethnofederal system.

Will Baird at The Dragon's Tales links to a couple of articles noting controversy over the United States' new Commercial Space Launch Act, which creates a legal framework for asteroid mining.

Universe Today's report of a proposed NASA mission to metallic asteroid Psyche interests me. Interesting object, interesting mission.

In their drive to set exploration goals for the future, NASA’s Discovery Program put out the call for proposals for their thirteenth Discovery mission in February 2014. After reviewing the 27 initial proposals, a ( Read more... )