• Bad Astronomy's Phil Plait shares a video showing how tacos are made in space.
• blogTO shares some classic photos of the TTC in the 1960s and 1970s.
• The Crux goes into more detail about the mesentery.
• D-Brief notes how the binary star KIC 9832227 is projected to experience a stellar merger in 2022.
• The Dragon's Gaze links to one paper suggesting that ( Read more... )

• Bloomberg notes the closure of Poland's frontier with Kaliningrad, looks at how Google is beating out Facebook in helping India get connected to the Internet, notes British arms makers' efforts to diversify beyond Europe and examines the United Kingdom's difficult negotiations to get out of the European Union, looks at the problems of investing in ( 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... )

• blogTO depicts a new Toronto condo tower that will also be a vertical forest.
• D-Brief notes the latest German success with nuclear fusion.
• The Dragon's Gaze notes the discovery of Jupiter analog HD 32963b.
• The Dragon's Tales provides updates about the Russian wars in Syria and Ukraine.
• Geocurrents examines the demographic history of the Philippines.

• blogTO notes the various subway stations scheduled to get upgrades.
• Crooked Timber considers the ethics of wealth inequality.
  
• The Dragon's Gaze notes the apparent detection of signals from disrupted hot Jupiters in nearby galaxies.
• Joe. My. God. notes a lawsuit lodged by people in a New York City parish who allege the church was covering up their ( Read more... )

• Alpha Sources notes that Eurozone economic sentiment is holding up.
• Centauri Dreams looks at SETI in the light of KIC 8462852.
• D-Brief notes predictions that Cassini could determine if Enceladus' ocean is active enough to support life.
• The Dragon's Gaze links to a video presentation examining how habitable planets around Alpha Centauri could be imaged ( Read more... )

• blogTO notes the bizarre Evan Solomon scandal at CBC.
• The Dragon's Gaze reports on the nascent planetary system of HD 169142, which includes a Nemesis-class exoplanet distant from its star.
• The Dragon's Tales links to a paper suggesting that the very young Titan had a much denser atmosphere.
• Far Outliers notes that as late as the 1830s, New Mexico was ( Read more... )

Transitions Online featured at the beginning of April suggesting that talk the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, last remnant of German East Prussia, has an especially notable regional identity is fundamentally flawed. Kaliningrad is as Russian, I would suggest, as Alaska is American, or for that matter as East Prussia was German.

The topic of a “ ( Read more... )

Bloomberg's Leonid Ragozin visits Kaliningrad during the celebrations of the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany to find a population that is cautiously accepting official mythology.

Tanks and ballistic missiles lumbered past thousands of spectators gathered in Kaliningrad on Saturday to mark the 70th anniversary of the Allied victory in Europe, an ( Read more... )

• Antipope Charlie Stross speculates about the consequences of SYRIZA's eleciton victory.
• Bad Astronomy discusses the Rosetta probe's pictures of Comet 67P.
  
• blogTO notes that Uniqlo is coming to Toronto.
  
• The Dragon's Gaze links to a comparative study of binary stars with exoplanets.
• The Dragon's Tales links to a study of the atmosphere of Pluto.