• Beyond the Beyond notes how astronomers are now collecting dust from space in their gutters, without needing to go to Antarctica.
• blogTO notes the many lost dairies of mid-20th century Toronto.
• The Dragon's Gaze looks at how volatiles freeze out in protoplanetary disks.
• The Dragon's Tales links to a paper considering the exploration of ocean worlds.
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• Apostrophen's 'Nathan Smith has a two part review of some of the fiction that he has recently read.
• blogTO looks at Casa Loma lit up for the holidays.
• Dangerous Minds notes The London Nobody Knows, a documentary of the grim areas of late Victorian London.
• Language Hat looks at how 16th century Spanish linguists represented Nahuatl spelling.
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• Apostrophen's 'Nathan Smith notes that his husky loves the winter that has descended on Ottawa.
• blogTO notes Toronto's continuing housing price spikes.
• D-Brief notes that chimpanzees apparently are built to recognize butts.
• Dead Things reports on discoveries of the first land vertebrates.
• The Dragon's Gaze notes the weird patterns of KIC 8462852.

The latest exhibition at the Ryerson Image Centre, The Edge of the Earth, is an exhibtion of unsettling photography looking at the ways humanity has changed the Earth in the Anthropocene, and the way the Earth looks now ( Read more... )

Bloomberg's Anna Hirtenstein argues that geoengineering is set to become a real thing, as we end up trying desperately to manage the consequence of uncontrolled environmental pollution and consequent climate change.

A United Nations body is investigating controversial methods to avert runaway climate change by giving humans the go-ahead to re- ( Read more... )

• Bad Astronomy notes the discovery of water vapour clouds in the atmosphere of nearby brown dwarf WISE 0855.
• blogTO notes the imminent arrival of winter weather.
• Centauri Dreams reports on a new theory of the Moon's origins suggesting the impact collision which create it was much more violent than we thought.
• The Dragon's Gaze notes how snowlines ( Read more... )

• Antipope Charlie Stross wonders about the interactions between parasite loads and the intelligence of the inhabitants of off-world colonies.
• Bad Astronomy shares a stunning mosaic of the Milky Way Galaxy.
• blogTO notes the construction of a viewing platform for Toronto plane spotters.
• The Everyday Sociology Blog examines why we call other people stupid ( Read more... )

• blogTO recommends some Toronto-related Vine clips.
• Centauri Dreams notes a SETI study of Boyajian's Star.
• Crooked Timber criticizes one author's take in the politics of science fiction.
• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper examining the auroras of hot Jupiters.
• The Dragon's Tales links to a paper finding that atmospheric methane did not warm the early ( Read more... )

• Bad Astronomy notes a new census of galaxies finding that there are two trillion in the universe.
• blogTO reports on a new twin condo tower proposed for downtown Toronto.
• The Dragon's Tales reports on findings suggesting Earth barely escaped a third snowball period.
• Joe. My. God. notes that no one wants to stay in Trump's new Washington D.C. hotel.
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• blogTO notes the mess on College Street.
• D-Brief notes that the crater of Chixculub was hot enough to sustain a subsurface ecology for two million years.
• Language Hat notes "brother" and some of its variations.
• Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at the United States' 1964 presidential election.
• The Map Room Blog notes how Google does not map green spaces.