• A BCer in Toronto Jeff Jedras describes a culinary event put on in Ottawa by Nova Scotia.
• James Bow examines Minneapolis-St. Paul's light rail network.
• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly writes about friendship.
• The Dragon's Gaze notes the discovery of comets around HD 181327.
• The Dragon's Tales notes reports of Russian nuclear missiles to be launched ( Read more... )

• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly considers old friends.
• Centauri Dreams considers the search for extraterrestrial civilizations using infrared astronomy, concentrating on Dyson spheres and the like.
• The Dragon's Gaze has two links to papers looking at unusual brown dwarfs.
• The Dragon's Tales reports on the flora of late Permian Antarctica.
• Language ( Read more... )

• blogTO notes a Toronto vigil for the Jordanian pilot murdered by ISIS.
• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly talks about friends and age gaps.
• Centauri Dreams draws from Poul Anderson
• Crooked Timber considers trolling.
• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper wondering why circumbinary exoplanets are so detectable.

Stephen Marche's blog post at Esquire makes me think. (Among other things, it puts me in mind of the truism that men also need feminism to succeed, in order to free them of the norms of patriarchy.)

The use of the word bro is reaching epidemic levels. Now, after The Fast and the Furious and How I Met Your Mother and Breaking Bad, if a show ( Read more... )

Liam Heneghan's 3 Quarks Daily essay on the impact of Facebook on friendships provides a thoughtful and original critique. By making it easier to maintain relationships and reducing the surprise factor, does Facebook preclude especially intimate friendships?

A helpful way to frame and address the issue of Facebook’s ability to seemingly add and ( Read more... )

Sesame Street's beloved characters Bert and Ernie--best friends, living together in a Manhattan apartment, doing everything together--have been subject to rumours that they're a same-sex couple for decades, as illustrated by a 1980 quote from novelist and radio broadcaster Kurt Anderson: "Bert and Ernie conduct themselves in the same loving, ( Read more... )

Good cause, good man.