• Centauri Dreams reports on asteroid P/2016 G1, a world that, after splitting, is now showing signs of a cometary tail.
• The Everyday Sociology Blog considers outrage as a sociological phenomenon. What, exactly, does it do? What does it change?
• Joe. My. God. reports on a new push for same-sex marriage in Germany, coming from the SPD.
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• blogTO notes that the redevelopment of Toronto's Port Lands is continuing.
• Crooked Timber argues that climate denialism exposes the socially constructed nature of property rights.
• D-Brief notes the reburial of Kennewick Man.
• The Dragon's Gaze notes there is no sign of a second planet around Proxima Centauri.
• Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at life in ( Read more... )

• Apostrophen's 'Natha Smith talks about his tradition of the stuffed Christmas stocking.
• Beyond the Beyond's Bruce Sterling talks about the decline of the Pebble wearables.
• blogTO lists some of the hot new bookstores in Toronto.
  
• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly talks about some of her family's traditions.
• The Dragon's Tales looks at the ancient ( Read more... )

• Beyond the Beyond shares an early 17th century Catholic Church communication doubting the Earth went around the sun.
• blogTO notes the sympathy cards placed outside the American consulate in Toronto.
• Crooked Timber argues that liberal progressivism hasn't been tried in recent years and so can't have failed.
• The Dragon's Tales shares one model ( Read more... )

• Apostrophen's 'Nathan Smith talks about his upcoming session at the Naked Heart literary festival here in Toronto.
• blogTO notes that Metrolinx is set to kill Bombardier's LRT contract.
• Centauri Dreams talks about the discovery of planets in the system of HD 87646, one not unlike Alpha Centauri.
• Dangerous Minds talks about a documentary on skinheads.
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The Guardian's Owen Bowcott describes the first heterosexual couple to acquire a domestic partnership in the United Kingdom. All I can say is that if the United Kingdom wanted domestic partnerships to be viable, on the model of France, they would have been opened up long before now to opposite-sex couples.

The first opposite-sex couple in the ( Read more... )

• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper noting how Tau Ceti's debris disk is not like our solar system's.
• Language Hat talks about writers who want anonymity.
• Joe. My. God. notes the return of homophobic protesters in France.
• The Map Room Blog shares hazard maps of various Yukon communities.
• Marginal Revolution notes that India's biometric smartcards work, ( Read more... )

Open Democracy's Yörük Bahçeli writes about how the Dutch Caribbean island of Aruba is moving towards marriage equality at a relative snail's pace.

Author's update: the parliamentary debate and ultimate vote has been postponed to September 8th as the Aruban government considers including regulations addressing same-sex relationships in the country ( Read more... )

Daily Xtra's Rob Salerno describes the Canadian-Bermudian couple who want to liberalize marriage law in Bermuda.

Winston Godwin and Greg DeRoche just want to get married. Godwin’s homeland of Bermuda doesn’t recognize same-sex relationships, however, so the couple is taking the government to court from 1,800 km away in their current home, Toronto ( Read more... )

That it has taken so long for the Conservative Party of Canada to accept same-sex marriage, as Erica Lenti wrote in Torontoist, is astounding.

According to the platform, which was last amended in November 2013, the Conservative Party “believe[s] that Parliament, through a free vote, and not the courts should determine the definition of marriage. ( Read more... )