The National Post carried Joseph Wilson's Associated Press article reporting on a failed effort by well over a thousand Africans to storm the fences separating Morocco from the Spanish enclave of Ceuta.

More than 50 Moroccan and Spanish border guards were injured repelling around 1,100 African migrants who attempted to storm a border fence and ( 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... )

One category of exhibit that I liked in the Aga Khan Museum were the rare items manufactured in the Muslim world for Western consumers: a pair of albarelli (singular albarelli), an Andalusian astrolabe, a Hindustani painting of the crucifixion from the 16th century. Commerce was a univeral.


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• ABC reports on the Sudanese-Australian basketball players who are transforming the game in Australia.
• Bloomberg reports on the potentially transformative scope of China's New Silk Road project.
• Bloomberg View likes the new Star Trek movie's shift beyond speciesism.
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• Centauri Dreams looks at odd binary AR Scorpii.
• Crooked Timber examines connections between demographic change and religiosity in the United States.
• A Fistful of Euros reports on the IMF response to the Eurozone bailouts.
• Joe. My. God. notes the outrage of families of survivors of American military dead at Trump's treatment of the Khan family.
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• Bloomberg View examines at length the implications of Donald Trump's not quite criminal call to have Russia hack more E-mails.
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• The Dragon's Gaze considers detecting industrial civilizations through their ozone holes.
• Joe. My. God. notes the French National Front's opposition to the Pride parade in Paris.
• Language Log considers English names in China.
• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer is confused by Spanish policy towards Scotland in the era of Brexit.
• Spacing Toronto notes ( Read more... )

• Bloomberg notes the rail boom in Bangladesh, looks at the fall in the value of the pound, notes a German proposal to give young Britons German citizenship and observes Spanish concern over giving Scotland a voice, looks at competition between Paris and Frankfurt to get jobs from the City of London, looks at how a Chinese takeover of an American ham ( Read more... )

• The Big Picture looks at flooding in West Virginia.
• Centauri Dreams considers how to develop a deep-space infrastructure.
• Crooked Timber considers Boris Johnson and looks at the Norway option.
• Dangerous Minds praises Laura Nyro.
• The Dragon's Tales reports on Martian agriculture.

• Bloomberg notes that Brexit could give Scotland a chance to take some of London's finance industry, looks at the Canadian-born governor of the Bank of England, looks at a quiet crisis in the Russian economy re: investment, and notes the awkwardness of the British diaspora in the European Union.
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