• Bad Astronomy shares a photo of the Earth and Moon taken by a Mars probe.
• Lawyers, Guns and Money responds to a baffling claim by a New York City policeman that stranger rape is more of a concern than acquaintance rape.
• Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw, returned from Denmark, wondersabout the extent to which social happiness is maximized by ( 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... )

• blogTO notes that Toronto has its first Ethiopian food truck.
• Beyond the Beyond considers the alien ocean of Europa.
• Centauri Dreams looks at the protoplanetary disks of brown dwarfs.
• D-Brief notes that Saturn's moon Dione may have a subsurface ocean.
• The Dragon's Gaze looks at how broadly Earth-like exoplanets form their atmospheres.

• blogTO notes the growing concentration of chain stores on lower Ossington.
• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly describes her luck in interviewing a New York City firefighter.
• Citizen Science Salon reports on a citizen science game intended to fight against Alzheimer's.
• Language Hat starts from a report about unsold Welsh-language Scrabble games to talk ( Read more... )

• From last month, Charlie Stross imagined how the Laundry of his ongoing fiction series would have reacted to Boris Johnson as their superior.
• The Big Picture shares photos of winning Olympians.
• blogTO celebrates the Leslie Street Spit and south Etobicoke.
• Centauri Dreams notes a study of some of the smallest and most planet-like brown dwarfs.
• The ( Read more... )

The English-language Copenhagen Post reports on disputes which may threaten the long-term future of Christiansø, Denmark's easternmost island, as a populated territory.

Christiansø is the largest island of Ertholmene, a tiny archipelago located about 20 km north of Svaneke on Bornholm. The archipelago are an unincorporated area that does not ( Read more... )

• Bloomberg reports on how the weakening yen is hurting some Hong Kong retailers, notes how Chinese are visiting Hong Kong in the search for approved vaccines, and observes Brexit may not change British immigration much.
• MacLean's notes a court ruling which states the Confederate flag is inherently anti-American, and reports on the Swedish Tourist ( Read more... )

• Bloomberg notes an unexpected housing shortage in the Midwest, and considers the impact of the Panama scandal on the British Virgin Islands' economic model.
• Bloomberg View calls for better regulation of the high seas, suggests (from the example of Yugoslav refugees in Denmark) that low-skilled immigrants can be good for working classes, and notes ( Read more... )

At Lawyers, Guns and Money, Erik Loomis builds his argument around a three-paragraph quote from Hugh Eakin's New York Review of Books essay "Liberal, Harsh Denmark"

Yet many Danes I talked to are less concerned about terrorism than about the threat they see Muslims posing to their way of life. Though Muslims make up less than 5 percent of the ( Read more... )

• Gerry Canavan shares his curriculum for his course on the lives of animals.
• Centauri Dreams reflects on Pluto.
• The Everyday Sociology Blog notes the predominance of "dead white guys" in sociology.
• Geocurrents notes the awkward position of Tatarstan, caught between Russia and Turkey.
• Joe. My. God. notes same-sex marriage will be available in Greenland ( Read more... )