• Apostrophen's 'Nathan Smith wonders why so many stories featuring gay children kicked out of their families feature the children later reuniting with these same people.
• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly draws from her own experiences growing up in a family marked by abuse to argue that Trump is treating Americans as any abuser treats their ( Read more... )

• blogTO recommends five neighbourhoods for people looking for apartments.
• False Steps' Paul Drye describes a failed European-Russian project for a manned capsule.
• Language Log looks at the oddity of English pronunciations of words in foreign languages, like placenames, with no connection to how these words are pronounced in English.
• Lawyers, Guns and ( Read more... )

The Atlantic hosts Gabrielle Bellot's article talking about the ways in which queer writers--in the United States, in her telling, but I'd argue worldwide--will have to mobilize to the forces gathered together by Trump.

In 1948, when the American writer Patricia Highsmith started writing The Price of Salt, her seminal novel of lesbian love, she ( Read more... )

• Bad Astronomy notes that a NASA probe has photographed the site on Mars where the ESA's Schiaparelli lander crashed.
• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly writes about being an immigrant, of sorts, in the United States.
• C.J. Cherry announces that work on her history of the Alliance-Union universe is continuing.
• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper looking ( Read more... )

• Bloomberg notes that Brexit may be good for European criminals, looks at the negative impact of Brexit on Japan's retail chains, examines the way a broken-down road reflects India-China relations, looks at Russia's shadow economy and observes Ukraine's effort to attract shippers to its ports.
• The Globe and Mail notes the mourning in Québec for the ( Read more... )

• Centauri Dreams examines circumbinary planet Kepler-1647b.
• Crooked Timber takes issue with Peter Singer's identification of boat people as queue jumpers.
• D-Brief notes the superior design of the brains of birds.
• The Dragon's Gaze considers if the James Webb Space Telescope could detect signs of life on the planets of the TRAPPIST-1 system.
• The Dragon's ( Read more... )

The Toronto Star's Jackie Hong reports on the local reaction to Orlando.

Hundreds of members of Toronto’s gay community and their supporters honoured the victims of the shooting spree in Orlando with a candlelight vigil Sunday evening at Barbara Hall Park, on Church St ( Read more... )

• Bloomberg notes UEFA's opening of a disciplinary case against Russia for fans' violence, and looks how an anti-corruption drive has not been hurting China's Hainan.
• Bloomberg View notes the flaws in Gawker's shock approach.
• CBC looks at tributes to the dead of Orlando, and reports on Microsoft's purchase of LinkedIn.
• The Calgary Herald describes the ( Read more... )

• Al Jazeera looks at the rejection of political Islam by Tunisia's Ennahda party.
• The Australian Broadcasting Corporation notes the ambition of Zambia to become a major food-exporting country.
• Bloomberg notes the negative impact of booming immigration on the New Zealand economy, observes Ireland's efforts to attract financial jobs from London-based ( Read more... )

• Bloomberg looks at Argentina's push for renewable energy, reports on Rosatom's interest in developing South Africa as an entry into the African nuclear market, writes about China's opposition to anything remotely like separatism in Hong Kong, and looks at Poland's demand for an apology for Bill Clinton critical of the new government.
• Bloomberg View ( Read more... )