• Centauri Dreams continues the debate over whether KIC 8462582 has been dimming.
• Joe. My. God. notes the collection, organized by the Romanian Orthodox Church, of three million signatures against same-sex marriage.
• The LRB Blog considers racism in old works of fiction.
• The NYRB writes on the handles of Wittgenstein.
• The Russian Demographics Blog notes a ( Read more... )

• blogTO celebrates High Park.
• Marginal Revolution celebrates the life and achievements of Benedict Anderson.
• Out of Ambit's Diane Duane shares a beautiful map of the Atlantic seaboard of the United States that she hand-drew in 1980.
• Towleroad discusses the mechanics of a same-sex couple's wedding.
• Transit Toronto notes upcoming meetings to discuss the ( Read more... )

• At 'Apostrophen, 'Nathan Smith writes about his experiences as a gay writer at an Ottawa romance writer's festival.
• blogTO notes the impending closure of Toronto's Bar Volo, owing to condo construction.
• Centauri Dreams reports on the latest news on KIC 8462582.
• Dangerous Minds remembers the Dave Clark Five.
• The Dragon's Gaze notes a paper on using ( Read more... )

• Bloomberg notes California's dependence on oil imports, looks at how Libya's internal divisions limit oil exports, observes the devastation of Fort McMurray, reports on EU-Turkish disputes on visa-free travel, observes the problems of Belarus' banks, and reports on Kenya's closure of Somali refugee camps.
• Bloomberg View talks about how the ( Read more... )

• Anthropology.net notes the discovery of Australopithecus remains east of the Great Rift Valley.
• blogTO suggests that Toronto restaurants east of the Don face trouble in attracting customers.
• Patrick Cain maps gentrification over the past decade in Toronto and Vancouver.
• Geocurrents polls its readers as to what themes they would like the blog to ( Read more... )

• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer is concerned with Trump: what would happen if a terrorist attack occurred under his rule, would he actually be able to save money from changing foreign basing, do terrorist attacks help him in the polls?
• Towleroad notes the advent of marriage equality in Greenland.
• Window on Eurasia notes legal challenges to ( Read more... )

• blogTO reports many streetcar and bus users aren't paying fares.
• D-Brief reports on a pressure for a mission to the ice giants of Uranus and Neptune.
• The Dragon's Gaze looks at HD 20782b, an exoplanet with an almost ridiculously eccentrc orbit.
• The Dragon's Tales reports that Russia and China can destroy American satellites.
• Joe. My. God. notes an ( Read more... )

Daily Xtra's Dylan C. Robertson reports on the progress of the Conservative Party's LGBTory caucus' progress. There has indeed been some, as I noted in September 2012, but as I noted in August 2015 the party still maintains what I think is an unbelievable official opposition to marriage equality. Still, the Conservatives are not as bad as (say) the ( Read more... )

• As noted by The Dragon's Gaze, Centauri Dreams hosts an essay hotly defending the argument that KIC 8462852 has dimmed sharply.
• Crooked Timber looks at the links between classical liberalism and the refusal to aid the victims of the Irish famine.
• D-Brief notes that ancient Babylonian astronomers were close to developing calculus.
• Joe. My. God. notes ( Read more... )

• blogTO looks back to see when Yonge and Dundas was cool.
• James Bow is decidedly unimpressed about Toronto's ever-shifting plans for mass transit.
• Joe. My. God. notes the opposition of Pope Francis to Italy's civil unions bill.
• Language Log notes Hong Kong's mixture of Cantonese and English, and shares a bit of pop music.
• Personal Reflections' Jim ( Read more... )