[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

• blogTO looks at eleven recent Toronto-themed books, from fiction to children’s literature.
• Centauri Dreams considers the idea of using waste heat to detect extraterrestrial civilizations.
• Far Outliers reports on how German East Africa substituted for foreign imports during the blockade of the First World War.
• Marginal Revolution suggests that the fall of Rome may have been due to the failure to reconquer North Africa.
• The NYRB Daily looks at the exuberant art of Jazz Age Florence Stettheimer.
• The Planetary Society Blog shares a stunning portrait of Jupiter from the New Horizons probe.
• Window on Eurasia considers the idea of containment in the post-Cold War world.
• Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell looks at the British election.