• Apostrophen's 'Nathan Smith writes about what he has learned from his huskie.
• Bad Astronomy shares some gorgeous Cassini images of Saturn's polar hexagon.
• Centauri Dreams looks at L2 Puppis, a red giant star that our own sun will come to resemble.
• D-Brief notes climate change is starting to hit eastern Antarctica, the more stable region of the ( Read more... )

• 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.
• Lawyers, ( Read more... )

Global News' Patrick Cain reports on changes in Canadian immigration rules which will make it easier for Americans to immigrate to Canada.

Changes to immigration rules quietly announced a few days after the U.S. election will make it easier for Americans to come to work in Canada, and easier for them to move toward citizenship once they’re here, ( Read more... )

• blogTO notes that retail space on Bloor Street in Yorkville is not only the priciest in Canada, but among the priciest in the world.
• Centauri Dreams notes how fast radio bursts, a natural phenomenon, can be used to understand the universe.
• Dangerous Minds looks at a Kate Bush music performance on Dutch television in 1978.
• The Dragon's Gaze links to an ( Read more... )

• blgoTO notes how the Guild Inn was once a popular resort.
• Centauri Dreams notes the import of real scientists in Arrival.
• Crooked Timber notes that anti-Trump Republicans did not seem to matter in the election.
• The Dragon's Gaze looks at cutting-edge options for studying exoplanets.
• False Steps notes a proposed American spacecraft that would have ( Read more... )

Matthew A. Winkler at Bloomberg View describes how Mexican-American trade is not a zero-sum affair. We will see if the underlying economic rationale for a close American-Mexican relationship can manage to survive Trump.

A Trumpist might deplore the success of these Mexican companies in profiting from rising U.S. prosperity. But then he'd have to ( Read more... )

The National Post shared Nacha Cattan and Eric Martin's Washington Post article looking at the general reaction in Mexico to Donald Trump's election. I wouldn't be surprised if this ended North American regionalism.

Mexicans watched their televisions in horror as Donald Trump was victorious over Hillary Clinton in the U.S. election, putting into ( Read more... )

• blogTO warned yesterday of impending snowfall.
• Centauri Dreams considers if planets in the circumstellar habitable zones of red dwarfs, like Proxima Centauri b, might tend to be ocean worlds.
• Crooked Timber tries to track down the source of some American electoral maps breaking down support for candidates finely, by demographics.
• D-Brief shares ( Read more... )

• Antipope's Charlie Stross worries about the literal survival of Britons in the post-Brexit United Kingdom.
• D-Brief notes the discovery of an ancient corpse in China shrouded in cannabis.
• Dangerous Minds reports on a 1971 BBC documentary about New York City starring a pre-stardom Patti Smith.
• The Dragon's Gaze links to a study mapping the changing ( Read more... )

• blogTO shares photos of the new Yonge-Eglinton Centre.
• Beyond the Beyond's Bruce Sterling makes the comparison of the Middle East now to central Europe in the Thirty Years War.
• The Dragon's Gaze notes the discovery of a hot Jupiter orbiting a T Tauri star just two million years old.
• Joe. My. God. reports on the conviction of a man who had been accused ( Read more... )