[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

• Bad Astronomer notes the circumstances of the discovery of a low-mass black hole, only 3.3 solar masses.
• Crooked Timber shares a photo of the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul.
• The Crux looks at Monte Verde, the site in Chile that has the evidence of the oldest human population known to have lived in South America.
• The Dragon’s Tales notes that Russia may provide India with help in the design of its Gaganyaan manned capsule.
• L.M. Sacasas at The Frailest Thing talks of his work, including his upcoming conference and his newsletter, The Convivial Society. (Subscribe at the website.)
• Gizmodo shares the Voyager 2 report from the edges of interstellar space.
• JSTOR Daily looks at the East India Company and its corporate lobbying.
• Language Hat shares an account from Ken Liu of the challenges in translating The Three Body Problem, linguistic and otherwise.
• Language Log looks at the problems faced by the word “liberation” in Hong Kong.
• Dan Nexon at Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at the implications of the surprising new relationship between Russia and the Philippines.
• Marginal Revolution seems to like Terminator: Dark Fate, as a revisiting of the series’ origins, with a Mesoamerican twist.
• Sean Marshall announces his attendance at a transit summit in Guelph on Saturday the 9th.
• Garry Wills writes at the NYR Daily about his experience as a man in the mid-20th century American higher education looking at the rise of women.
• Starts With A Bang’s Ethan Siegel looks at the strangely faint distant young galaxy MACS2129-1.
• Window on Eurasia considers the possibility of Latvia developing a national Eastern Orthodox church of its own.

[PHOTO] St. Mary’s Ukrainian Catholic Church, 18 Leeds Street

St. Mary’s Ukrainian Catholic Church (18 Leeds Street), is a bit of a neighbourhood landmark in its chunk of west-end Toronto. Even on the other side of the City of Toronto‘s Christie Pits park, the church’s spires and domes are still quite visible. St. Mary’s is one of the churches belonging to the Toronto and Eastern Canada eparchy of the Canadian branch of the Ukrainian Catholic Church.

St. Mary’s Ukrainian Catholic Church, as seen on the other side of Christie Pits
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St. Mary’s Ukrainian Catholic Church, from the east
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The entryway to St. Mary’s Ukrainian Catholic Church
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St. Mary’s Ukrainian Catholic Church, from the east
Originally uploaded by rfmcdpei