• 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... )

• blogTO notes that a Vancouver nerd bar is opening up shop in Toronto.
• Dangerous Minds provides its readers with a take on an upcoming Tom of Finland biopic.
• The Dragon's Tales notes that Enceladus seems altogether too hot and notes that dwarf planet Makemake seems to have a surprisingly uniform surface.
• Far Outliers looks at Afghanistan and Poland at ( 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 retail space on Bloor Street in Yorkville is not only the priciest in Canada, but among the priciest in the world.
• Centauri Dreams notes how fast radio bursts, a natural phenomenon, can be used to understand the universe.
• Dangerous Minds looks at a Kate Bush music performance on Dutch television in 1978.
• The Dragon's Gaze links to an ( Read more... )

• The Big Picture shares photos of motorbike racing in South Africa.
• Centauri Dreams considers the stellar weather that planets of red dwarf stars might encounter.
• Dead Things looks at two genetic studies which complicate the narrative of humanity's spread.
• Dangerous Minds shares the infamous anti-disco night of 1979 that spelled the end of the genre in ( Read more... )

• Antipope considers the question of who would win in a battle to the end, Cthulhu or Warhammer 40K's Emperor of Mankind?
• blogTO shares history and photos of Humber Bay Shores and the Scarborough Bluffs.
• Joe. My. God. notes Donald Trump's attack on the Japanese-American alliance.
• Language Hat reports on how speakers of the Aboriginal language of ( Read more... )

• blogTO notes the warning of the Royal Bank of Canada that the city has too many condos.
• D-Brief notes how patterns of glucose consumption in the brain can distinguish between people capable of consciousness and those otherwise.
• Dangerous Minds notes the Victorian tradition of post-mortem photographs.
• The Dragon's Gaze notes that, apparently, our ( Read more... )

• blogTO notes planned additions to the Eaton Centre.
• Centauri Dreams explores protocols for contact between our spacecraft and those of aliens.
• Discover's Dead Things notes the discovery of an archeological site almost 15 thousand years old off the coast of Florida.
• The Dragon's Gaze notes the roughness of Neptune's migration to its current orbit.
• The ( Read more... )

• blogTO notes the continued delays with Bombardier's streetcar deliveries to the TTC, looks at the expansion of WiFi to Toronto stations, and has hope for independent bookstores.
• The Crux notes a proposal to make the Moon a solar energy power centre for the Earth.
• The Dragon's Gaze notes Venus analog Gliese 832d and observes the mass of material in ( Read more... )

Going through IWPR's recent archives, I was very surprised to see the article "LiveJournal Returns in Kazakstan, But Now Facebook is King", by one Botagoz Seidakhmetova, which noted that the ban on Livejournal had been lifted in Kazakhstan in November after four years. That it had been banned at all is something I had been unaware of--Global Voices ( Read more... )