[BLOG] Five NYR Daily links (@nyrdaily)

• Claire Messud writes at the NYR Daily about two art exhibits concerned with borders.
• Caitlin Chandler writes at the NYR Daily about the state of the experiment of Germany with mass reception and integration of refugees.
• The NYR Daily explores the modern Russian history of state-sponsored murder outside of its frontiers.
• Moroccan writer Hisham Aldi writes at NYR Daily about his relationship with Paul Bowles.
• The NYR Daily reports on a remarkable exhibit at the Barbican in London of notable nightclubs in 20th century culture.

[BLOG] Some Sunday links

• Architectuul visits the studio of Barbas Lopes Arquitectos in Lisbon, here.
• Bad Astronomer takes a look at a new paper examining the effectiveness of different asteroid detection technologies, including nuclear weapons.
• Centauri Dreams reports on a new study suggesting potentially habitable planets orbiting Alpha Centauri B, smaller of the two stars, could suffer from rapid shifts of their axes.
• John Quiggin at Crooked Timber argues some polls suggest some American conservatives really would prefer Russia as a model to California.
• Bruce Dorminey notes the discovery, by the Murchison Widefield Array in Australia, of 27 supernova remnants in our galaxy.
• The Dragon’s Tales shares a collection of links about stealth aircraft, here.
• Gizmodo notes a new study suggesting that DNA is but one of very very many potential genetic molecules.
• Language Hat shares a reevaluation of the Richard Stanyhurst translation of the Aeneid, with its manufactured words. Why mightn’t this have been not mockable but rather creative?
• Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns and Money celebrated the 50th anniversary of the takeover of Alcatraz Island by Native American activists.
• Chris Bertram writes at the LRB Blog, after the catastrophe of the Essex van filled with dozens of dead migrants, about the architecture of exclusion that keeps out migrants.
• Marginal Revolution shares a comment looking at the fentanyl crisis from a new angle.
• Jenny Uglow writes at the NYR Daily about a Science Museum exhibit highlighting the dynamic joys of science and its progress over the centuries.
• Personal Reflections’ Jim Belshaw takes a look at the question of how to prevent the wildfires currently raging in Australia. What could have been done, what should be done?
• The Planetary Society Blog reports on proposals from China for two long-range probe missions to interstellar space, including a Neptune flyby.
• Drew Rowsome reviews the wonderfully innocent Pinocchio currently playing at the Young People’s Theatre.
• Starts With A Bang’s Ethan Siegel looks at the evidence for the universe, maybe, being closed.
• Window on Eurasia notes that the Alexandria Patriarchate is the next Orthodox body to recognize the Ukrainian church.
• Arnold Zwicky looks at irregular versus regular, as a queer word too.

[URBAN NOTE] Seven Toronto notes

• Matt Gurney wonders if the losses of votes for the Conservatives in the Greater Toronto Area will doom Andrew Scheer, over at the National Post.
• Jamie Bradburn took a look at the opening of the Ontario Science Centre, here.
• Spacing shares an argument for density transition zones in Toronto, here.
• The Village Idiot Pub in Toronto, across Dundas from the AGO, will rebrand itself the Village Genius. Global News reports.
• Queen and Coxwell will soon host some new affordable housing. Global News reports.
• The closure of a flea market on Old Weston road, a year after a tragic shooting, is a shame. The Toronto Star
• I am going to see at least some of the works in this year’s Toronto Biennial. NOW Toronto reports.

[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: Toronto Queer Theatre Festival, Junction, Shevchenko, 1926, suicide

• Drew Rowsome reviews the offerings at the Toronto Queer Theatre Festival, here.
• blogTO notes the displeasure of the Junction at the removal of a wooden train platform, become a community hub, for condo construction.
• Bloor West Village, blogTO notes, hosts a museum–newly reopened in a new location–devoted to the poetry of Taras Shevchenko.
• Jamie Bradburn looks at vintage Toronto ads, these from the parties contending 1926 federal election.
• In this long-form CBC feature, Ioanna Roumeliotis writes about the new things the TTC is doing to try to prevent suicides on the subway tracks.

[URBAN NOTE] Ten Toronto links: politics, transit, pop culture, photos

• CBC Toronto bids farewell, fittingly at TCAF time, to the iconic Jason Loo Toronto comic series The Pitiful Human-Lizard.
• At blogTO, Tanya Mok reports on the resistance of tenants at 54-56 Kensington Avenue to an illegal eviction order by their landlord.
• The Toronto Star reports</u. on a new matchmaking event intended to connect future roommates to each other.
• Kevin Ritchie at NOW Toronto reports on how a new pricing scheme for the AGO, including a $35 annual pass for people over 25, reflects a push to try to get more people into museums.
• Glenn Sumi writes at NOW Toronto about the increasingly steep price of ticket prices for live theatre in Toronto.
• Toronto Life shares photos from an exhibit, by Patrick Cummins and Ivaan Kotulsky, of Queen Street West in the 1980s and 1990s.
• Richard Longley writes at NOW Toronto about the emptying of an old warehouse of collectibles and oddities on Wabush, part of the decline of old storied Toronto.
• Toronto Life shares more photos from outdoor market Stackt, at Front and Bathurst.
• Steve Munro starts to analyse traffic patterns on the 501 Queen streetcar, looking first at the Neville Loop end.
• NOW Toronto is one of a few news sources to report on Scarborough writer Téa Mutonji and her new short story collection Shut Up, You’re Pretty.

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

• The Broadside Blog’s Caitlin Kelly considers the importance of complete rest.
• Citizen Science Salon looks at the contributions of ordinary people to Alzheimer’s research.
• The Crux notes how recent planetary scientists acknowledge Venus to be an interestingly active world.
• D-Brief notes the carnivorous potential of pandas.
• Cody Delistraty considers a British Library exhibit about writing.
• Bruce Dorminey notes the possibility that, in red giant systems, life released from the interiors of thawed outer-system exomoons might produce detectable signatures in these worlds’ atmospheres.
• The Dragon’s Tales shares reports of some of the latest robot developments from around the world.
• Jonathan Wynn at the Everyday Sociology Blog considers the concepts of gentrification and meritocracy.
• Gizmodo notes a running dinosaur robot that indicates one route by which some dinosaurs took to flight.
• At In Media Res, Russell Arben Fox talks about bringing some principles of Wendell Berry to a town hall discussion in Sterling, Kansas.
• io9 notes that a reboot of Hellraiser is coming from David S. Goyer.
• JSTOR Daily looks at how museums engage in the deaccessioning of items in their collections.
• Language Log examines the Mongolian script on the renminbi bills of China.
• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes how Volkswagen in the United States is making the situation of labour unions more difficult.
• Marginal Revolution notes the effective lack of property registration in the casbah of Algiers.
• The NYR Daily notes the Afrofuturism of artist Devan Shinoyama.
• Strange Company examines the trial of Jane Butterfield in the 1770s for murdering the man who kept her as a mistress with poison. Did she do it? What happened to her?
• Frank Jacobs at Strange Maps notes a controversial map identifying by name the presidents of the hundred companies most closely implicated in climate change.
• Window on Eurasia notes how the Russian Orthodox Church, retaliating against the Ecumenical Patriarchy for its recognition of Ukrainian independence, is moving into Asian territories outside of its purview.
• Arnold Zwicky starts a rumination by looking at the sportswear of the early 20th century world.

[URBAN NOTE] Seven Toronto links: 1919, condos, Long Branch, transit, Walk-Up Weekdays, sakura

• Jamie Bradburn shares some editorials from Toronto newspapers in 1919 reacting to the city’s general strike.
• CBC Toronto reports on the growing number of 311 complaints about short-term rentals in many condo complexes, like the Ice Condos.
• blogTO profiles an excellent-looking condo at 1100 Lansdowne Avenue, on Lansdowne near Davenport.
• Tess Kalinowski writes at the Toronto Star about controversies in Long Branch regarding lot severance. How can this old community densify?
• Edward Keenan writes at the Toronto Star about the point that a transit shelter enclosed on four sides did not make, and the point that it did perhaps make inadvertantly.
• The Toronto Public Library announces its Walk-Up Weekdays program, where this month possession of a library card can give someone free admission to a city museum.
• The Toronto cherry blossom festival in High Park will start this weekend, with road closures starting Saturday. Global News reports.

[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Hamilton, Montréal, Sudbury, Québec City, Los Angeles

• Hamilton is coming up with new strategies to better manage its alleyways. Global News reports.
• The McCord Museum in Montréal is scheduled to enjoy an impressive new expansion in coming years. CBC Montreal reports.
• This CBC Ideas feature looks at how Sudbury, once an industrial wasteland, has been carefully and effectively regreened over the past few decades.
• La Presse reports that majorities in Québec City are in favour of streetcar construction.
• Frank Jacobs at Strange Maps shares this food map of Los Angeles.

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

• Bad Astronomer Phil Plait notes the many galaxies in the night sky caught mid-collision.
• Centauri Dreams reports on the plan of China to send a probe to explore near-Earth co-orbital asteroid 2016 HO3 and comet 133P.
• Gizmodo reports, with photos, on the progress of the Chang’e 4 and the Yutu 2 rover, on the far side of the Moon.
• Joe. My. God. notes that Bill de Blasio hopes to ban new steel-and-glass skyscrapers in New York City, part of his plan to make the metropolis carbon-neutral.
• JSTOR Daily notes a critique of the BBC documentary Planet Earth, arguing the series was less concerned with representing the environment and more with displaying HD television technology.
• Language Hat notes the oddities of the name of St. Marx Cemetery in Vienna. How did “Mark” get so amusingly changed?
• Language Log looks at how terms for horse-riding might be shared among Indo-European languages and in ancient Chinese.
• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the grounds for the workers of New York’s Tenement Museum to unionize.
• The NYR Daily notes the efforts of Barnard College Ancient Drama, at Columbia University, to revive Greek drama in its full with music and dance, starting with a Euripedes performance.
• Starts With A Bang’s Ethan Siegel shares some iconic images of the Earth from space for Earth Day.

[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: Neon Museum, renovictions, Y&E, ROM, Room With A View

• Jamie Bradburn was decidedly unimpressed by the Neon Museum at Junction House.
• Renovictions are a real concern for many renters in Toronto, already living on the edges of their budgets. CBC reports.
• Urban Toronto notes an interesting consolidation of two development plans into one at Yonge and Eglinton, here.
• blogTO notes how the Royal Ontario Museum is now going to offer free admission every third Monday of the month.
• Natalia Manzocco writes at NOW Toronto about how the Room With A View pop-up restaurant underneath the Gardiner Expressway ended up triggering city concerns over housing.