• blogTO notes the 1970s, when Yonge around Queen was under reconstruction.
• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly talks about her writing life in New York City.
• The Crux considers: Neandertal or Neanderthal?
• Dangerous Minds notes the new Laibach app.
• The Dragon's Gaze looks at evaporating hot Jupiter HD 209458b.

• Antipope's Charlie Stross fears the arrival of fascism in Britain after the murder of Jo Cox.
• Centauri Dreams reports on SDSSJ1043+0855, a white dwarf apparently consuming a rocky planet.
• The Crux notes discussion of terraforming Mars.
• The Dragon's Tales notes the revealing result of a study of the crops that ancient Indonesians brought to Madagascar.
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• blogTO notes the record high temperatures in Toronto this Christmas Eve, while James Bow describes his family's events.
• Centauri Dreams looks at remarkably evocative pictures of Ceres.
• The Dragon's Gaze reports on how an exoplanet's rings were mapped.
• The Dragon's Tales reports on the ongoing controversy about the South China Sea's boundaries.
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This article from The New York Times describes the particular consequences of Trump's words for Trump's business. Considering Trump would have done better to leave his inheritance in the bank to accumulate interest, it's not surprising he'd face this now. A pity about his employees.

At Lifestyle, an inexpensive home furnishings store tucked inside ( Read more... )

As I said in a Facebook group, I want the fucker's name out of my city. blogTO first reported on the call by Josh Matlow to change the name of the tower, and CP24 went into more detail.

A local city councillor wants to see Donald Trump’s name taken off of Trump Tower in Toronto ( Read more... )

Window on Eurasia summarizes the arguments of another Russian analyst, one Vladislav Inozemtsev, who makes what I think is the correct argument that the contemporary Russian regime bears quite a few similarities to that of 1930s fascist Italy.

The Kremlin regime has met “in practice all” of the characteristics of fascism: a leader cult, a desire ( Read more... )

• blogTO notes the expansion of condo development south of Yonge and Eglinton.
• Centauri Dreams blogs about the exciting continuing approach of Dawn to Ceres.
• The Dragon's Gaze looks at the system of HD 69830, with three Neptune-mass planets and a dense asteroid belt.
• The Dragon's Tales links to a paper looking at French government surveillance of global ( Read more... )

• The Big Picture has photos of the winter snowtowns in New England.
• blogTO has old photos of various Toronto intersections.
• Centauri Dreams notes how atmospheres can break the tidal locks of close-orbiting planets.
• The Dragon's Gaze suggests Fomalhaut b is a false positive, speculates on the evaporation time of hot Jupiters, and wonders if planetoids ( Read more... )

• blogTO notes a Toronto vigil for the Jordanian pilot murdered by ISIS.
• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly talks about friends and age gaps.
• Centauri Dreams draws from Poul Anderson
• Crooked Timber considers trolling.
• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper wondering why circumbinary exoplanets are so detectable.

• The Big Picture shares photos of the falling shoreline of the Dead Sea.
• blogTO shows the heritage buildings that have survived condo development at Yonge and St. Joseph.
• Crooked Timber wonders at the threat of anti-vaccination people.
• The Dragon's Gaze notes that red dwarfs might help produce abiotic atmospheric oxygen comparable to Earth on some ( Read more... )