• Anthropology.net reports on the recent discovery in China of two skulls a hundred thousand years old, possible remnants of a hitherto-unknown hominid species.
• blogTO reports on the boom in the Toronto tech community.
• Language Log breaks down the linguistics, specifically word lengths, of audiobooks.
• Lawyers, Guns and Money reports on the difficult ( Read more... )

• Beyond the Beyond shares Yves Behar's thoughts on design in an age of artificial intelligence.
• blogTO makes the case for the east end of Toronto.
• The Big Picture shares photos of a family of Congolese refugees resettled in New England.
• Centauri Dreams hosts an essay looking at the prospects for off-world agriculture.
• Dangerous Minds shares photos of ( 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.

• D-Brief notes the apparent discovery by Hubble of water plumes from Europa.
• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper noting different solutions to the mystery of Boyajian's Star.
• Dangerous Minds shares photos of deserted Pripyat in Ukraine.
• Joe. My. God. notes that 80% of Chicago police dashcams were disabled by the police.
• Lawyers, Guns and Money and Noel ( Read more... )

• Centauri Dreams considers Juno's photos of Jupiter's poles.
• The Dragon's Gaze notes the discovery of another star that behaves much like mysterious Tabby's Star.
• Far Outliers reports on the good reputation of the Chinese forces at Shanghai in 1937.
• Joe. My. God. notes a Christian site that claims gay sex is not sex.
• Language Hat reports on the problems ( Read more... )

From Space.com's Calla Cofield:

Just above the horizon, Venus and Jupiter will appear so close to each other that, from some locations, the two planets will almost seem to touch. The next time Venus and Jupiter will get this close will be in November 2065 ( Read more... )

• blogTO reports that streetcar tracks are involved in a third of Toronto's bike crashes.
• Centauri Dreams notes that Jupiter's Great Red Spot is a source of heat.
• The Crux notes the non-medicinal uses of tobacco.
• Dangerous Minds looks at the voyeuristic photography of 20th century Czechoslovakian photographer Miroslav Tich.
• The Dragon's Tales notes that ( Read more... )

• Beyond the Beyond's notes the imminent end of Moore's law.
• Centauri Dreams imagines what a stellified gas giant might look like.
• D-Brief notes Ceres' lack of large craters and looks at how New Zealand is declaring war on invasive fauna.
• The Dragon's Gaze looks at Venus analog Gliese 832d.
• Joe. My. God. notes intensifying scrutiny of Trump's Russian ( Read more... )

• blogTO looks back on a Toronto heat wave in 1935.
• Centauri Dreams looks at the K2-72 and Kepler-80 systems.
• D-Brief reports on early signs of global warming in Siberia and looks at how African honeyguide birds work together with human hunters.
• The Dragon's Gaze looks at the search for habitable planets around red dwarfs, looks at the habitability of ( Read more... )

• Discover introduces its new blog Astrobeat.
Centauri Dreams looks at our operations throughout our solar system.
• Dangerous Minds shares recordings from Prince's Sign o' The Times tour rehearsals.
• The Dragon's Gaze links to a study of gas giant HD 95086b.
• The Dragon's Tales notes evidence for pre-European trade in eastern Polynesia.
• Gizmodo notes that a ( Read more... )