• Antipope's Charlie Stross wonders if the politics of Trump might mean an end to the British nuclear deterrent.
• Centauri Dreams shares Andrew LePage's evaluation of the TRAPPIST-1 system, where he concludes that there are in fact three plausible candidates for habitable status there.
• Dangerous Minds shares the gender-bending photographs of Norwegian ( Read more... )

• At Antipope, Charlie Stross wonders--among other things--what the Trump Administration is getting done behind its public scandals.
• blogTO notes a protest in Toronto aiming to get the HBC to drop Ivanka Trump's line of fashion.
• Dangerous Minds reflects on a Talking Heads video compilation from the 1980s.
• Lawyers, Guns and Money reflects on a murderous ( Read more... )

• blogTO notes the amazing spike upwards in temperatures for this weekend.
• Dangerous Minds shares photos of some stark war memorials of the former Communist world.
• The Dragon's Gaze reports on brown dwarf HIP 67537b.
• The LRB Blog looks at Donald Trump's interest in a Middle Eastern peace settlement that looks as if it will badly disadvantage the ( Read more... )

• blogTO looks at deserted Mirvish Village.
• Crooked Timber reenages with the Rachel Carson and DDT myth.
• The Crux looks at the Mandela Effect, exploring false memories.
• Dangerous Minds makes the case for the musical genius of Bobbie Gentry.
• From the Heart of Europe's Nicholas Whyte recounts his visit to Albania's bunker museum.

The idea is to occupy Facebook with art. Whoever "likes" this post will be given an artist and invited to post a piece by that artist with this text. I was given Charles Rennie Macintosh by Facebook's Suzanne.


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• At Apostrophen, 'Nathan Smith writes about the status of his various writing projects.
• Beyond the Beyond's Bruce Sterling links to an article examining pieces of software that have shaped modern music.
• blogTO notes the expansion of the Drake Hotel to a new Junction site. Clearly the Drake is becoming a brand.
• Citizen Science Salon looks at how ( Read more... )

• blogTO notes concerns in Church and Wellesley about a spike of reported anti-gay violence.
• Crooked Timber looks at the shambolic mess that is the Republican healthcare plan.
• Language Hat links to an article concerned with the question of how to try cracking the Indus Valley script.
• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes that the malevolence and incompetence of ( Read more... )

• blogTO notes that the Toronto real estate market is now the most unaffordable of any in Canada.
• The Big Picture shares photos of melting Antarctica.
• Crooked Timber considers the economic benefits of open borders, and the costs.
• Dangerous Minds shares photos of posters from Paris in 1968.
• Lawyers, Guns and Money considers the problems of legal education ( 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... )

• blogTO shares some photos of Toronto in colour from the 1950s.
• Centauri Dreams talks about SETI in the light of the Anthropocene era.
• Dangerous Minds notes that there is now a hipster nativity scene available for purchase.
• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper suggesting that tidal heating could explain the difference between super-Earths and mini- ( Read more... )