• James Bow calls for an end to the US-Canada Safe Third Country agreement prohibiting people coming from American soil from claiming refugee status in Canada.
• D-Brief reports on the vast array of man-made minerals appearing in what is now being called the Anthropocene Era of Earth.
• Dangerous Minds notes the efforts of the Disco Preservation Society to ( Read more... )

The Toronto Star's Ellen Brait reports on how first-year engineering students at the University of Toronto came up with a solution to save the books of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library.

When 750,000 volumes of rare books are imperiled by condensation, it’s time to think outside the building ( Read more... )

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CBC News' Ali Chiasson reports on Toronto's trade in stolen books.

Japanese author Haruki Murakami may be known worldwide for novels that straddle the border between the dreamworld and reality ( Read more... )

• Apostrophen's 'Nathan Smith writes about what he has learned from his huskie.
• Bad Astronomy shares some gorgeous Cassini images of Saturn's polar hexagon.
• Centauri Dreams looks at L2 Puppis, a red giant star that our own sun will come to resemble.
• D-Brief notes climate change is starting to hit eastern Antarctica, the more stable region of the ( Read more... )

Author Hayden Trenholm's proposed 49th Parallels anthology dealing with Canada-relevant alternate histories with points of divergence after 1867, sounds fascinating. Metro News's Haley Ritchie had an enlightening interview with Trenholm on the subject.

Sir Wilfrid Laurier said the 20th century would belong to Canada - to be fair, it didn’t quite ( Read more... )

• blogTO notes that York University is slated to have an architecturally interesting student centre.
• Centauri Dreams reports on new imaging of various protoplanetary disks.
• The Dragon's Gaze reports on observations finetuning what is known about HD 209458b.
• Joe. My. God. notes the happiness of at least one white supremacist leader with the Trump victory ( Read more... )

• blogTO notes a photo series celebrating the corner stores of Toronto and reports on massive condo towers planned for Yonge and College.
• Centauri Dreams notes the antimatter sail as a potential future propulsion technology.
• D-Brief notes the beginning of a search for an Earth-like planet orbiting Alpha Centauri A or B.
• Joe. My. God. notes that it is ( Read more... )

• blogTO notes Mississauga's new waterfront park.
• Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly talks about the glamour and otherwise of the writer's life.
• The Dragon's Gaze reports on a study of Epsilon Eridani.
• Language Hat describes a fascinating-sounding book untranslated into English, "Oğuz Atay’s experimental, linguistically complex novel of ideas Tutunamayanlar ( Read more... )

• blogTO notes that Muji is opening up a second location.
• James Bow writes about how voicing complaints can make things better for transit riders.
• The Dragon's Gaze notes the detection of ice in the disk of HD 142527.
• The Dragon's Tales links to a paper speculating on the origins of rings like Saturn's in the disruption of dwarf planets.
• Lawyers, Guns ( Read more... )