Tyler Cowen's Bloomberg View article about seasteading was picked up by the National Post. I think he's correct in arguing that seasteading should not be seen as a way to escape from community, mainly, but that it should instead be seen as a way to escape to some other place. Whether or not it is viable is another question entirely.

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• blogTO recommends five neighbourhoods for people looking for apartments.
• False Steps' Paul Drye describes a failed European-Russian project for a manned capsule.
• Language Log looks at the oddity of English pronunciations of words in foreign languages, like placenames, with no connection to how these words are pronounced in English.
• Lawyers, Guns and ( Read more... )

CBC News reports on changing mammal populations in Hudson's Bay, with killer whales potentially displacing not just polar bears but belugas, too. (I really like belugas.)

The food chain in Hudson Bay is drastically changing as killer whales take advantage of less sea ice and eat their way into Manitoba, a researcher in Arctic mammal populations ( Read more... )

• blogTO praises the food court of Village by the Grange.
• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly talks about the importance of self-care in times of stress.
• The Dragon's Gaze notes that KIC 8462852 does seem to have faded throughout the Kepler mission.
• The Dragon's Tales notes that Planet Nine may be especially faint in the infrared and looks at the ( Read more... )

• blogTO notes that the TTC plans on raising fares for next year.
• Centauri Dreams notes the evidence for an ocean on Pluto.
• City of Brass' Aziz Poonawalla argues against Muslims voluntarily registering in an American listing of Muslims.
• Dangerous Minds notes the sadness of Abbie Hoffman at Janis Joplin's use of IV drugs.
• Joe. My. God. notes that ( Read more... )

• Antipope shares a guest essay by an author pointing out how duelling was a social plague.
• 'Nathan Smith's Apostrophen shares an essay noting that being a Donald Trump supporter who reads gay romance is a contradiction.
• Beyond the Beyond notes new European Union interest in defense integration.
• blogTO reports that a Torontonian designed the new ( 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 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... )

• Centauri Dreams describes an unusually old circumstellar disk orbiting a red dwarf.
• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper analyzing the possible internal structure of Proxima Centauri b and looks at how common water worlds are.
• The Everyday Sociology Blog looks at how poverty can complicate aging in the United States.
• Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at the ( Read more... )

CBC News' Nancy Russell reports on a study suggesting ways Charlottetown can adapt to relatively limited flooding. This sounds like an interesting study. Does anyone on the Island know if it is publically available?

A new study of the Charlottetown waterfront looks at what wind, waves and sea level rise could mean in the present and into the ( Read more... )