• Beyond the Beyond considers the floating mountains of Pluto.
• The Boston Globe's Big Picture notes the story of a church that transitioned from an old-style church building to a storefront.
• blogTO shares a photo of the Gardiner Expressway, closed for construction.
• Centauri Dreams considers the search for life around red giant stars.
• Crooked Timber ( Read more... )

• blogTO notes the continued delays with Bombardier's streetcar deliveries to the TTC, looks at the expansion of WiFi to Toronto stations, and has hope for independent bookstores.
• The Crux notes a proposal to make the Moon a solar energy power centre for the Earth.
• The Dragon's Gaze notes Venus analog Gliese 832d and observes the mass of material in ( Read more... )

• The Boston Globe's The Big Picture shares photos from this year's Boston Marathon.
• blogTO reports on the proposal to make the lower Don valley a new park.
• D-Brief notes the impending emergence of cicadas.
• The Dragon's Gaze links to the potentially cataclysmic consequences of very large impacts on early Venus.
• The Map Room Blog considers the process of ( Read more... )

Universe Today's Evan Gough notes that ancient Pluto seems to have had a much warmer climate, allowing for flowing nitrogen lakes and rivers.

The New Horizons probe revealed the surface features of Pluto in rich detail when it reached the dwarf planet in July 2015. Some of the features look like snapshots of rivers and lakes that are locked firmly ( Read more... )

• Charlie Stross at Antipope creates a taxonomy of cliches of space opera.
• The Dragon's Gaze notes that HD 100453 has a red dwarf hiding in its protoplanetary disk.
• The Dragon's Tales considers the history of Charon.
• Imageo notes that the moisture streaming into California ultimately comes from the Philippines.
• Lawyers, Guns and Money considers Silver ( Read more... )

• Bad Astronomy shares a stunning photo of the Tarantula Nebula, in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
• The Boston Globe's Big Picture shares photos from the world of Chinese opera, in Thailand.
• blogTO has a humourous list of signs you've survived, and suffered, on the 29 Dufferin bus.
• Centauri Dreams reflects on the possible ancient ocean of Charon.
• Dangerous ( Read more... )

The Dragon's Tales linked to this intriguing NASA report.

Images from NASA’s New Horizons mission suggest that Pluto’s moon Charon once had a subsurface ocean that has long since frozen and expanded, pushing outward and causing the moon’s surface to stretch and fracture on a massive scale ( Read more... )

• On Livejournal, bitterlawngnome shares some remarkable vintage print ads from the early 20th century.
• The Dragon's Gaze notes that robots installed the mirrors for the James Webb Space Telescope.
• The Dragon's Tales notes the abundant water ice on the surface of Pluto.
• Joe. My. God. and Towleroad note the imprisonment of Philadelphia gaybasher Kathryn ( Read more... )

• Gerry Canavan shares his curriculum for his course on the lives of animals.
• Centauri Dreams reflects on Pluto.
• The Everyday Sociology Blog notes the predominance of "dead white guys" in sociology.
• Geocurrents notes the awkward position of Tatarstan, caught between Russia and Turkey.
• Joe. My. God. notes same-sex marriage will be available in Greenland ( Read more... )

• BCer in Toronto Jeff Jedras foodblogs from different Ottawa junkets.
• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly lists 20 ways to enjoy winter. (If it comes.)
• Centauri Dreams shares the latest Pluto imagery and examines the ancient impact that created the Moon.
• Crooked Timber notes that volunteers who help refugees arriving in Greece might be criminalized.
• The ( Read more... )