• James Bow calls for an end to the US-Canada Safe Third Country agreement prohibiting people coming from American soil from claiming refugee status in Canada.
• D-Brief reports on the vast array of man-made minerals appearing in what is now being called the Anthropocene Era of Earth.
• Dangerous Minds notes the efforts of the Disco Preservation Society to ( Read more... )

The San Francisco Chronicle's Vincent Woo writes about how an ostensible openness of San Franciscans towards immigration is not matched by their lack of support for affordable housing for immigrants (and others).

San Francisco is one of the most progressive cities in the nation, especially when it comes to national immigration. We believe so much ( Read more... )

Writing for NBC News, Mary Emily O'Hara looks at the queer casualties of the Oakland Ghost Ship disaster.

The fire at an Oakland artists' warehouse on Friday night was so devastating, officials said the current death toll of 36 people comes after only 70 percent of the building was searched ( Read more... )

The National Post's Victor Ferreira describes how San Francisco is doing a terrible job of trying to meet its mass transit needs.

Public transit riders in the San Francisco Bay Area often find subways so congested that they take trains in the opposite direction so when they get off and swing around, they’ll have a seat to beat the horde of people ( Read more... )

• Antipope Charlie Stross imagines future directions of evolution.
• Anthropology.net reports on a reconstruction of the vocal tract of Iceman Otzi.
• blogTO notes the temporary return of the Dufferin jog owing to construction.
• Centauri Dreams considers asteroids.
• The Dragon's Tales reports on the expected crash of China's Tiangong-1 space station.

NBC Bay Area's Tamara Palmer looks at real estate prices in San Francisco in a rather enlightening international perspective. San Francisco is no longer going to be a place where non-rich people live, right?

Ready to trade that San Francisco studio apartment for a French castle ( Read more... )

If Noah Smith's account in Bloomberg View is correct--if--then San Francisco and the whole Bay area will face an unsolvable problem.

San Francisco provides a cautionary tale. In the last decade, the city has been flooded with technology workers, pushing rents into the stratosphere -- a one-bedroom apartment costs around $3,500 a month to rent. ( Read more... )

• Bloomberg reports on the problems of France's Burgundy wine region, looks at the impact of Brexit on the economy of South Africa, and thinks Airbnb will survive San Francisco.
• Bloomberg View considers what the European Union will do next, looks at the EU's failure to capture hearts and minds, and notes that young Britons are now trapped.
• The Globe ( Read more... )

• Centauri Dreams considers the oceans of Pluto and Enceladus.
• The Dragon's Gaze notes a disintegrating exoplanet.
• The Dragon's Tales notes that the American military can't afford Iron Man suits.
• Language Hat notes a study of fragmented language.
• Language Log looks at multilingual signage in Manhattan.

• Bloomberg reports on Dutch losses from Brexit, looks at the scene in Fallujah, observes the fragmentation of Venezuela's opposition, and notes the positive impact of a solar energy boom on Japan's fuel consumption.
• Bloomberg View notes the lack of regional pressure on Venezuela, reports that Brexit would hit Britain's poor and British-based banks ( Read more... )