• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly writes about the importance of showing up for major events.
• Crooked Timber looks at e-publishing for academia.
• Dead Things notes that the evolution of the human brain and human teeth were not linked.
• The Dragon's Gaze links to two papers about ocean worlds and greenhouse effects.
• Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at the ( Read more... )

• blogTO notes that 1975 was a formative year for Toronto.
• Centauri Dreams speculates about the oceans of Pluto and Saturn's Dione.
• Crooked Timber talks about Hannah Arendt's arguments about the importance of bearing testament.
• D-Brief looks at the cnyodont, an extinct reptile ancestral to mammals.
• Dangerous Minds shares photos of Patti Smith.

At Savage Minds, anthropologist Asmeret Ghebreigziabiher Mehari writes about the writing process for her, a multilingual person working in at least two very different cultural realms.

As a non-native learner and speaker of Amharic, English, and Swahili, I have taken several journeys between these languages and my mother tongue, Tigrinya. ( Read more... )

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My December photo of a bilingual English/Chinese street sign for Sullivan off Spadina was taken around the western periphery of downtown Toronto's Chinatown. This pictures, taken on the northwestern corner of McCaul and Dundas Street West, north of the Art Gallery of Ontario and on the same corner as the Village Idiot Pub, was taken on the eastern ( Read more... )

This street sign for Sullivan Street in downtown Toronto's Chinatown, between Queen and Dundas on the east side of Spadina, features Chinese characters ( Read more... )