Unicorn Booty associate editor Alexander Kacala has a nice interview with the real-life gay couples whose image was used in a mural in a station in New York City's new Second Avenue subway.

After taking nearly a century to build, the Second Avenue subway extension in Manhattan opened on Sunday with lots of pomp and circumstance. Three new stations ( Read more... )

• blogTO notes that TTC tunnels will get WiFi in 2018.
• Border Thinking's Laura Augustín shares some of Edvard Munch's brothel paintings.
• Centauri Dreams looks at the latest science on fast radio bursts.
• Dangerous Minds shares some of the sexy covers of Yugoslavian computer magazine Računari.
• Dead Things looks at the latest research into dinosaur eggs.

• Bad Astronomy shares a video imagining of how Cassini will meet its end with Saturn.
• Cody Delistraty shares an interview with Rebecca Solnit.
• Far Outliers reports on Margaret Thatcher's unorthodox campaign in 1979.
• Joe. My. God. shares Hillary Clinton's thanks to her 66 million voters.
• Marginal Revolution looks at gender stereotypes among scientists.

The Globe and Mail's Marsha Lederman describes a program in Vancouver for artists that goes some way towards making the city actually affordable for them.

In a city such as Vancouver, high rents and a low vacancy rate do not paint a pretty picture - particularly for artists, who need a place to live as well as a studio space in which to work. ( Read more... )

• blogTO notes that the Toronto real estate market is now the most unaffordable of any in Canada.
• The Big Picture shares photos of melting Antarctica.
• Crooked Timber considers the economic benefits of open borders, and the costs.
• Dangerous Minds shares photos of posters from Paris in 1968.
• Lawyers, Guns and Money considers the problems of legal education ( Read more... )

• blogTO notes that Toronto's housing market is now hotter than Vancouver's.
• The Crux looks at progress in human reproductive technology, including in ectogenesis.
• D-Brief looks at a new simulation of an asteroid impacting the ocean.
• Dangerous Minds reports on a French cement truck made into a giant mirrored disco ball.
• In Media Res' Russell Arben Fox ( Read more... )

• The Big Picture shares photos from ruined Aleppo.
• Centauri Dreams looks at the new explanation for the ASASSN-15h, of a Sun-mass star torn apart by a fast-rotating black hole.
• The Crux looks at the condition of hyperemesis gravidarum.
• Dangerous Minds shares the dark and Satanic art of an Argentine artist.
• Joe. My. God. reports on one man's displeasure ( Read more... )

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The Village Voice's Sophie Weiner argues that the aftermath of the Oakland Ghost ship fire should not lead to a crackdown against artists crowded in unsafe buildings, or at least that this should not be the only thing done. There needs to be affordable places for artists to live and create.

As the death toll rises from a devastating fire that tore ( Read more... )