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The Crow Agenda, as described by its Indiegogo fundraising page, is a recent documentary a half-hour long that takes a look at Charlottetown's crow population and the whole complex mixture of thoughts about them. Apparently these feathered apes are common here.

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• Centauri Dreams looks at signs of advanced technologies detectable by SETI searches.
• D-Brief notes evidence of the domestication of turkeys in eth and 5th century Mexico.
• Dangerous Minds discusses a legendary 1985 concert by Einstürzende Neubauten.
• Joe. My. God. notes the banning of Tila Tequila from Twitter.
• Language Log looks about a Hebrew ( Read more... )

The Toronto Star's Azzura Lalani explains why the gray jay, Canada's new national bird, does not have the Canadian "grey" in its name.

Canadians haven’t wasted much time since the gray jay was named Canada’s national bird on Wednesday asking why its name is spelled the American way ( Read more... )

• blgoTO notes how the Guild Inn was once a popular resort.
• Centauri Dreams notes the import of real scientists in Arrival.
• Crooked Timber notes that anti-Trump Republicans did not seem to matter in the election.
• The Dragon's Gaze looks at cutting-edge options for studying exoplanets.
• False Steps notes a proposed American spacecraft that would have ( Read more... )

• Beyond the Beyond links to an interview with Darran Anderson, a writer of cartographic fiction.
• Centauri Dreams notes that 2028 will be a time when microlensing can b used to study the area of Alpha Centauri A.
• The Crux engages with the question of whether or not an astronaut's corpse could seed life on another planet.
• The Dragon's Gaze links to a ( Read more... )

• Bloomberg talks about Poland's problems with economic growth, notes that McMansions are poor investments, considers what to do about the Olympics post-Rio, looks at new Japanese tax incentives for working women, looks at a French war museum that put its stock up for sale, examines the power of the New Zealand dairy, looks at the Yasukuni ( Read more... )

Torontoist's Mark Mann describes how Toronto's skyscrapers are starting to heighten their toll in birds killed.

It’s hard to know what to care about. Our terrible world offers plenty of options, and, considered all together, they are overwhelming and exhausting, which is maybe why most of us refuse to pay much attention to anything that isn’t ( Read more... )

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The interior of The Dunes Studio Gallery and Cafe (3622 Brackley Point Road) is full of beautiful things. Last month, I shared a photo of some glass cats for Caturday. Today, I'm sharing some of my photos of sculptures inside the building. Curiously, most of the photos I took were of lobsters.


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I went to the High Park Zoo in search of the capybaras, but all I could see of them was their enclosure's reinforced fence.


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