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• blogTO shares photos of Toronto streets in the 1960s, cluttered by signage.
• Crooked Timber and the LRB Blog respond to the death of Fidel Castro.
• Far Outliers looks at the exploitative but functional British treatment of servants.
• Language Hat notes the insensitivity of machine translation and examines the evolution of the Spanish language.
• Lawyers, ( Read more... )

• Antipope shares a guest essay by an author pointing out how duelling was a social plague.
• 'Nathan Smith's Apostrophen shares an essay noting that being a Donald Trump supporter who reads gay romance is a contradiction.
• Beyond the Beyond notes new European Union interest in defense integration.
• blogTO reports that a Torontonian designed the new ( Read more... )

• A BCer in Toronto mourns the declining standards behind the Tim Horton's apple fritter.
• blogTO notes that the Toronto vs everybody T-shirt has been redone in the original Iroquoian.
• Centauri Dreams considers Project Orion.
• Dangerous Minds shares vintage North Korean anti-American art.
• The Dragon's Tales links to a paper suggesting that Mars' climate ( Read more... )

blogTO reports on trouble down in The Beaches.

The Beaches might one of Toronto's most idyllic neighbourhoods, but there's trouble brewing by the water. That's because some residents are unhappy with the chain restaurants at 1681 Lake Shore Blvd. E., in Woodbine Park ( Read more... )

Savage Minds hosts an essay by William Cotter and Mary-Caitlyn Valentinsson looking at the cultural and ethical complexities of specialty coffee.

If you’re in academia, you probably have a very close relationship with coffee. For most Americans, coffee feels like a necessary part of our day, crucial to our higher-order cognitive functioning. ( 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... )

• Bloomberg notes that Brexit might drive British migration to Australia, suggests Russia's recession might be coming to an end, looks at carbon emissions from dead trees, and reports on Guiliani's liking for Blackberry.
• Bloomberg View notes Israel's tightening restrictions on conversions and looks at how Putin has become a US election issue.
• CBC notes ( Read more... )

• Bloomberg notes the collapse of a Petrobras boomtown in Brazil, notes that Serbian bonds are resistant to Brexit fears because of Serbia's non-membership in the European Union, and wonders about the future of the smartphone market.
• CBC notes soaring real estate prices in the suburbs of Toronto and Vancouver.
• The Inter Press Service notes efforts to ( Read more... )

• The Boston Globe's The Big Picture shares photos from this year's Boston Marathon.
• blogTO reports on the proposal to make the lower Don valley a new park.
• D-Brief notes the impending emergence of cicadas.
• The Dragon's Gaze links to the potentially cataclysmic consequences of very large impacts on early Venus.
• The Map Room Blog considers the process of ( Read more... )