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• blogTO reports on how a trespasser at track level disrupted subway service today.
• Crooked Timber argues Trump's migration ban is best under stood as an elaboration of existing Western immigration policies, taking them to their logical conclusion.
• Dangerous Minds looks at 1980s New York City industrial rockers Missing Foundation.
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• Bad Astronomy shares a photo of the Earth and Moon taken by a Mars probe.
• Lawyers, Guns and Money responds to a baffling claim by a New York City policeman that stranger rape is more of a concern than acquaintance rape.
• Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw, returned from Denmark, wondersabout the extent to which social happiness is maximized by ( Read more... )

Unicorn Booty associate editor Alexander Kacala has a nice interview with the real-life gay couples whose image was used in a mural in a station in New York City's new Second Avenue subway.

After taking nearly a century to build, the Second Avenue subway extension in Manhattan opened on Sunday with lots of pomp and circumstance. Three new stations ( Read more... )

The Toronto Star carries Jake Pearson's Associated Press article noting how New York City's Second Avenue subway line is nearing a deadline. Will it meet it? We'll see.

New Yorkers have become accustomed to waiting on the subway. But nearly 45 years ( Read more... )

I thought I'll tonight repost my post of the 11th of June, 2012, resharing the photos I took that day of the Strawberry Fields memorial to John Lennon in New York City's Central Park.

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I certainly wasn't the only person visiting Strawberry Fields earlier this afternoon, a section of Central Park adjacent to West 72nd Street that was ( Read more... )

• blogTO shares photos of Toronto streets in the 1960s, cluttered by signage.
• Crooked Timber and the LRB Blog respond to the death of Fidel Castro.
• Far Outliers looks at the exploitative but functional British treatment of servants.
• Language Hat notes the insensitivity of machine translation and examines the evolution of the Spanish language.
• Lawyers, ( Read more... )

• blogTO notes city opposition to a new subdivision in Weston.
• The Dragon's Gaze reports on KIC 7917485b, a massive gas giant found in close orbit of a star.
• The Everyday Sociology Blog dissects the idea of this being a season of giving.
• Joe. My. God. notes Clinton's vote lead over Trump surpassed two million.
• Language Log looks at Chinese transcriptions ( Read more... )

• blogTO shares some photos of Toronto in colour from the 1950s.
• Centauri Dreams talks about SETI in the light of the Anthropocene era.
• Dangerous Minds notes that there is now a hipster nativity scene available for purchase.
• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper suggesting that tidal heating could explain the difference between super-Earths and mini- ( Read more... )

• blogTO notes that the TTC plans on raising fares for next year.
• Centauri Dreams notes the evidence for an ocean on Pluto.
• City of Brass' Aziz Poonawalla argues against Muslims voluntarily registering in an American listing of Muslims.
• Dangerous Minds notes the sadness of Abbie Hoffman at Janis Joplin's use of IV drugs.
• Joe. My. God. notes that ( Read more... )