• At The Dragon's Tales, Will Baird links to analysis of periods in Earth's climate forty million years ago when global temperatures peaked suddenly by up to five degrees, and remained that way for tens of thousands of years.
• Extraordinary Observation's Rob Pitingolo describes how the Ohio city of Youngstown is trying to engage in a planned shrinkage ( Read more... )

• At blogTO, Matthew Harris blogs about the ongoing condo boom in the tony Toronto neighbourhood of Yorkville. No, Toronto doesn't have a real estate bubble, really it doesn't ...
• Charlie Stross blogs about his recent second visit to Japan, a country that he sees has being alien but with this alienness rooted as much in its own distinctive history as ( Read more... )

Until recently, I haven't been reading much literary and/or mainstream fiction because I've been consumed by Deep Space Nine relaunch novels and their equivalents in the Next Generation universe. Yes, they're media tie-ins, but should I care about that? Discovering what happened in Bajoran space after Sisko's return, or what happened to the ( Read more... )