• blogTO shares ten facts about Union Station.
• Centauri Dreams describes possible ice volcanoes on Ceres.
• Crooked Timber argues in favour of implementing a basic income before a universal income, on grounds of reducing inequality and easing the very poor.
• The Crux shares an argument against dark matter.
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• blogTO tries to pit the west side of Toronto against the east side.
• Centauri Dreams describes an inventive plan to launch a probe to rendezvous with Proxima Centauri.
• Crooked Timber looks at the idea of civil society in the age of Trump.
• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper that aims to explore why Neptune-class exoplanets are so common.
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• Anthropology.net looks at the genetics of how the Inuit have adapted to cold weather.
• 'Nathan Smith's Apostrophen shares the author's plans for the coming year.
• Beyond the Beyond's Bruce Sterling shares Margaret Atwood's commitment to fighting for freedom of expression.
• Crooked Timber asks its readers for recommendations in Anglophone science fiction.
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Astronomy's Shannon Stirone describes how Ceres has been confirmed as being a water-rich world, if not a world with actual oceans.

Ceres is best known for being the biggest rocky body in the entire asteroid belt, now considered a dwarf planet. The sister to the likes of Pluto, Eris and Makemake, Ceres is turning out to be more complex than ( 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.

• blogTO shares photos of the new Yonge-Eglinton Centre.
• Beyond the Beyond's Bruce Sterling makes the comparison of the Middle East now to central Europe in the Thirty Years War.
• The Dragon's Gaze notes the discovery of a hot Jupiter orbiting a T Tauri star just two million years old.
• Joe. My. God. reports on the conviction of a man who had been accused ( Read more... )

• blogTO notes that Green Day will be headlining a festival in the Distillery District.
• Centauri Dreams looks at research into an interstellar solar sail.
• The Dragon's Gaze notes a study of brown dwarf populations.
• The Dragon's Tales looks at ancient Martian rivers and flood plains.
• The Everyday Sociology Blog looks at the protest of Colin Kaepernick.

• Centauri Dreams looks at odd binary AR Scorpii.
• Crooked Timber examines connections between demographic change and religiosity in the United States.
• A Fistful of Euros reports on the IMF response to the Eurozone bailouts.
• Joe. My. God. notes the outrage of families of survivors of American military dead at Trump's treatment of the Khan family.
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• 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, ( Read more... )

• Beyond the Beyond's notes the imminent end of Moore's law.
• Centauri Dreams imagines what a stellified gas giant might look like.
• D-Brief notes Ceres' lack of large craters and looks at how New Zealand is declaring war on invasive fauna.
• The Dragon's Gaze looks at Venus analog Gliese 832d.
• Joe. My. God. notes intensifying scrutiny of Trump's Russian ( Read more... )