If you are bored by your confinement, here are links to over five-hundred-fifty news stories for all taste (well, mostly for mine).

Like I said in my latest “notable news” entry (for the beginning of 2020) I completely skipped over 2019 (my last entry before that was in January). I guess I was a little busy. On the domestic front there is not much to say. I don’t want to look back too much on 2019, since it was a bad year — and, now that we know that 2020 is even worst, why bother? I guess I wrote a lot about it (you can check the blog indexes update). I feel the same for what happened on the world stage (refer to Wikipedia for the events of 2019, from January to December).

However, despite everything, I always stay acquainted with the affairs of the world and collect links to the notable news story of the time. I call it scrap-linking: it’s like scrapbooking but instead of collecting old newspaper articles in files or scrapbooks (like my father used to do), I just collect links to news-story on the internet. Therefore, with this blog entry, I would like to make some sort of a review of the year through those links. Be aware that they are in both French or English, slightly categorized, but in no particular order, and of course, because this is old, some links may have become dead or completely irrelevant, sorry about that — also note that, to save on coding time, the links will NOT open in a new window as usual. I am sharing all this with you >> after the jump.

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Apple Stuff

• Dates rumored for Apple’s WWDC 2019 event for iOS 13 and macOS 10.15 (9 to 5 Mac)
• Apple Prime Would Be a Gigantic Hit, Huh? (Gizmodo)
• Apple launches new iPad Air and iPad mini (Tech Crunch)
• Apple just gave you the best way to watch ‘Game of Thrones’ without an internet connection (CNBC)
• 2019 iPhones: Rumors about Apple’s 2019 iPhone lineup (MacRumors)
• Apple iOS 12.3.2 Release: Should You Upgrade? (Forbes)
• The 10 iPadOS features that will transform your iPad experience (Wired)
• What happens to music ripped from CDs in the new Mac Music app? (9 to 5 Mac)
• Here are all of the iPhones and iPads that will support iOS 13 and iPadOS 13 this fall (9 to 5 Mac)
• iPadOS Makes Surprise Debut At Apple’s WWDC 2019–Here’s Everything You Need To Know (Forbes)
• iPadOS brings those killer iPad features we’ve been craving (Cult of Mac)
• How To Back Up Your iTunes Music Before iTunes Is Retired (Bustle)
• How to block robocalls on iPhone with the incoming Apple software update (Fox Business)
• RIP iTunes: What Happens To Your Existing Library? (Life Hack)
• Apple Releases AirPort Base Station Firmware Update 7.9.1 (Mac Rumors)
• Apple Confirms ECG Functionality is Coming to Canada ‘as Soon as Possible’ (Mac Rumors, iMore, Globe and Mail)
• Apple Releases watchOS 5.2.1 to Public – Enables ECG Functionality for Additional European Countries
• (Mactrast)
• Apple could release AirPods 3 later this year. Here’s what we know so far (Mashable)
• Here’s How watchOS 6 Will Help Protect Your Hearing (iDrop)
• Apple Watch’s new Noise app is unbelievably accurate (Cult of Mac)
• How to use your Apple News Plus subscription to get around paywalls (The Verge)
• Greg Feller: Canadian banks are about to have their Apple moment (Financial Post)
• The best AirPods 2 tips and tricks (Cult of Mac)
• Apple cancels AirPower wireless charger (The Verge)
• Apple made AirPods even better with three impressive features (CNN)
• Health Canada says Apple is working to bring Apple Watch ECG feature to Canada (Mobile Syrup)
• New Apple Watch OS arrives with ECG app for Europe and HK (Engadget)
• Apple’s subscription news service has several Canadian media partners at launch (CTV)
• The good, bad and the unknown of Apple’s new services (CTV)
• Goldman Sachs hints that Apple’s new credit card will be rolled out internationally (CNBC)
• Want the new Apple Card? Read the fine print first (CNET)
• Apple event 2019: Everything announced at Apple’s big March presentation (CNN)
• Apple TV Channels is an a la carte way to watch your favorite networks (Engadget)
• Apple News+ is a great deal, but what does ‘full access’ really mean? (Tech Crunch)
• Apple TV Channels Will Be The Most Revolutionary TV Streaming Service In History (Forbes)
• Apple starts selling diabetes monitors in its stores (Engadget) [Not true : Apple had been carrying in the past the excellent but quite cheap iHealth glucose monitor but dropped them after a year]
• Apple iOS 13 Has 25 Great Secret Features (Forbes)
• Hands-down the easiest way to set up your new iPhone 11 or 11 Pro (CNET)
• Use Live Listen with Made for iPhone hearing aids (Apple, Google)
• How to fix the “Update Apple ID Settings” bug in MacOS Catalina (Digital Trends)
• Transit app returns to Apple Watch to make public transport easy (Cult of Mac, 9 to 5 Mac, Engadget) [Yeah!]
• Quickly record a video of your iPhone or iPad’s screen (CNET)
• Review: The AirPods Pro are the best earbuds for your iPhone (Mashable)
• Apple considers bundling subscription services into one package: Report (Fox Business) [That would be great!]
• 6 Issues With Apple’s New AirPods Pro After 1 Week Of Use (Forbes)
• How to Import Music Without iTunes in MacOS Catalina (Digital Trends)
• Here’s how to get your free year of Apple TV+ (9 to 5 Mac)
• Here’s how Apple’s new AirPods Pro stack up with other truly wireless earbuds (The Verge)
• AirPods Pro first impressions: Noise cancellation ‘better than expected,’ impressive fit, design (9 to 5 Mac) [Yeah, but so expensive !]
• Everything you can change about Apple ID on macOS Catalina (iMore)
• Common MacOS Catalina problems and how to fix them (Digital Trends)
• MacOS Catalina review: Call it a Mac comeback (CNET)
• Free year of Apple TV+ with device purchase (Sun Sentinel)
• Don’t update to macOS Catalina without checking this first (Cult of Mac)
• macOS Catalina: Avoid my mistake and wait before you upgrade (ZDNET)
• 10 Things You Need To Know About Apple’s New macOS Catalina (Mashable)
• Don’t mourn for iTunes. Here’s how to listen to music on your Mac now (CNET)
• When your Mac looks like Windows Vista, something isn’t right (iMore)
• Apple Looking to Bundle Services Like Apple Music and Apple TV+ for One Flat Monthly Rate (MacRumors)
• macOS Catalina now available, here are the top 7 new Mac features (9 to 5 Mac)
• 12 Things You Can Do in macOS Catalina That You Couldn’t Before (Gizmodo)
• iPadOS shuts up all those ‘not a real computer’ claims (Cult of Mac)
• iPad’s Latest Features Explained (Tech.co)
• Apple iOS 13 Has 25 Great Secret Features (Forbes)
• watchOS 6: Hands-on with the top new features for Apple Watch (9 to 5 Mac)
• iOS 13: Complete Guide and Feature List (Mac Rumors)
• How to back up and prepare your iPhone prior to installing iOS 13 (CNET) [it’s valid for any big update]
• IPhone 11 and 11 Pro Review: Thinking Differently in the Golden Age of Smartphones (NYT, via Apple News)
• Apple transforms AppleCare+ extended warranty into a monthly subscription (The Verge)
• Apple Watch may get sleep tracking as soon as next week (Engadget)
• How to Record the Screen & Audio on Your iPhone (iPhoneLife)
• Class action lawsuit against Apple approved by Quebec Superior Court (Montreal Gazette)
• Apple Batteries and AppleCare Quebec Class Action (LPC Avocat Inc.)
• How to clean up iCloud storage without paying for more (Mashable)
• Apple Finally Sells a 3-In-1 Wireless Charger for Your iPhone, AirPods and Apple Watch (Gear Patrol, Apple Store, Mophie, Amazon)
• Apple nabs Intel’s modem business in $1 billion bet on 5G (CNET)
• Apple Card could launch in Canada next year (9to5Mac) [Nope!]
• Siri Live Radio Is up and Running — Even in iOS 12 (iDrop News)
• Apple is adding picture-in-picture mode to the Apple TV (The Verge)
• How to Copy and Paste Items Across Apple Devices (PC Mag)
• Apple to Add Sleep-Tracking Features to Apple Watch by 2020 (Mac Rumors)
• Apple and Goldman Sachs Preparing to Release New ‘Apple Pay’ Credit Card with Financial Health Tracking (iDrop)

Books, Culture & Library

• Literally toxic: Booker-nominated author earn praise for dystopian debut novel (The Gazette via PressReader)
• Keep books, toss kids: Authors weigh in on Marie Kondo book debate (National Post/The Gazette)
• Brownstein: Wikipedia to get respect at Concordia University (Montreal Gazette)
• This Is Why Reading Is So Important for Your Brain (Reader’s Digest)
• Une bibliothèque de Montréal-Nord mènerait une politique jugée «discriminatoire» pour les jeunes (Journal Métro)
• Veille informationnelle : Un auteur de Québec et son éditeur accusés (à tort?) de production et de distribution de pornographie juvénile (Julie Lit au Lit)
• Book Series Like ‘Game of Thrones’ (PureWow)
• George R.R. Martin Has Called This Book Series “The Original ‘Game of Thrones’” (PureWow)
• Resisting the niche: History informs novelist’s urge to delve into fantasy (Gazette via The London Free Press)
• La nouvelle bibliothèque de Pierrefonds : Troisième lieu, dernier refuge du laisser-vivre et de la gratuité (Bibliomancienne)
• The Importance of Reading Books (The New York Times)
• Before ‘Little Women,’ Louisa May Alcott found inspiration in a Civil War hospital (Washington Post)
• Hiromi Kawakami’s new novel challenges stereotypes about Japanese women (Quartzy)
• On The Importance of Not Writing (The Paris Review)
• ‘Lost’ book of exquisite scientific drawings rediscovered after 190 years (National Geographic)
• Fin du prêt de livres entre bibliothèques (Radio-Canada)
• ‘It drives writers mad’: why are authors still sniffy about sci-fi? (The Guardian)
• Gene Wolfe, ‘magnificent’ giant of science fiction, dies aged 87 (The Guardian)
• ‘Extraordinary’ 500-year-old library catalogue reveals books lost to time (The Guardian)
• ALA’s Most Banned Books 2018 List Goes to 11 (ICv2)
• Quialu.ca, un réseau social du livre (Le Soleil)
• National Library Week: 9 fascinating facts about librarians (CNN)
• Larry Sanger wants Everipedia to be a post-truth Wikipedia (Decrypt)
• Elise Gravel’s children’s books never talk down to readers (Montreal Gazette)
• Microsoft announces it will shut down ebook program and confiscate its customers’ libraries (Boing Boing)
• This keeper of books is all set for a new chapter (The Hindu)
• The Secret You Need to Know About Ebooks (BookBub)
• Apple’s New Streaming Service Means the Golden Age of Content Will Continue (ICv2)
• Une grande transformation se prépare à la bibliothèque Saint-Sulpice (TVA)
• La bibliothèque comme remède aux « faits alternatifs » (Radio-Canada)
• Réouverture de la bibliothèque Ahuntsic dans un emplacement temporaire (Journal des Voisins)
• Blueberry, Corto Maltese, Spirou… la fièvre des reprises (France Culture)
• How William Gibson Keeps His Science Fiction Real (The New Yorker)
• Not A Regular Reader? 4 Strategies To Make Reading A Habit (NPR)
• Les bibliothèques à Montréal, une histoire « riche et un peu désespérante » (Radio-Canada)
• We Need Librarians More Than Ever (Youtube)
• Des universitaires défendent la pertinence de l’encyclopédie en ligne Wikipédia (JDM)
• Ian Williams wins Scotiabank Giller Prize for Reproduction (Globe & Mail)
• Fatboys, une fausse bonne idée ? (La fabrique à idées) [Non, par expérience, pas une bonne idée!]
• L’engouement du public pour les bibliothèques québécoises (Le Devoir)
• Looking at books as more than just vessels for information or entertainment (Washington Post, The Gazette via press reader, Publications, Leah Price)
• You May Have To Wait To Borrow A New E-Book From The Library (NPR)
• Bandes dessinées: ce que La Presse en pense (La Presse)
• Amazon Sellers Are Self-Publishing ‘Blank’ Books — and Turning a Big Profit (Money)
• What Millions of Books Reveal About 200 Years of Happiness (Smithsonian)
• Backlash after Booker awards prize to two authors (The Guardian)
• Booker Prize: Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo share award (BBC)
• “The First Time Laura Pailing Died” inspired by childhood incident (Canada.com)
• Craig Kielburger: Libraries are hubs of innovation and inclusivity (Federation of Ontario Public Libraries)
• Are Library Late Fees Useful? Chicago Says ‘No.’ (CityLab)
• College Students Just Want Normal Libraries (The Atlantic)
• In a Syrian Town Under Siege, a Secret Library Kept Dreams Alive (NYT)
• It’s Banned Books Week: Here are the 11 most-challenged books (USA Today)
• Lessons in Stoicism review: what ancient philosophers teach us about how to live (The Guardian)
• Physical books still outsell e-books — and here’s why (CNBC)
• Books Won’t Die (The Paris Review)
• Yale Researchers Say Doing This Simple Activity Can Add 2 Years to Your Life — It’s Not Exercise (Inc.com)
• School Librarian Jobs Face an Uncertain Future (CityLab)
• La bibliothèque, dernier rempart du silence (Radio-Canada)
• Prêt d’ebook : les bibliothèques de Montréal n’en demandaient pas tant (Actualitté)
• Des incertitudes entourent le financement des bibliothèques publiques (Radio-Canada)
• Les écrivains inquiets d’une motion de l’opposition (Le Devoir)
• Les prêts numériques dans la mire de l’opposition (Le Devoir)
• Amazon’s Plan to Conquer the World of Publishing (The Atlantic)
• Brownstein: Concordia’s Wikipedian-in-residence has a lot on her plate (Montreal Gazette)
• The Birth of the Semicolon (The Paris Review)
• Mikki, chienne traqueuse de punaises de lit dans les bibliothèques (ActuaLitté)
• Bibliothèques publiques: un mouvement pour abolir les frais de retard (La Presse)
• This hospital library is for respite and learning, but especially empowerment (Montreal Gazette)
• La Française Pénélope Bagieu récompensée par un prestigieux prix de la bande dessinée aux Etats-Unis (Le Monde)
• Is YA Author Kathleen Hale A “Crazy Stalker”? (BuzzFeed)
• ‘I can get any novel I want in 30 seconds’: can book piracy be stopped? (The Guardian)
• L’audiolivre suscite la curiosité (Le Devoir)
• Une bibliothèque de Montréal-Nord mènerait une politique jugée «discriminatoire» pour les jeunes (Journal Métro)
• We’re Celebrating Historical Fiction Day! (Book Riot)
• Tune in and turn it up: List of library related podcasts (The Library Lab)
• Confessions of a Comic Book Guy: Stop Making People Feel Bad for Liking Things That Made Them Happy (ICv2)
• Review: ‘Philip K. Dick: A Comics Biography’ (ICv2)
• Des prix gonflés pour agrandir la bibliothèque de Pierrefonds (Le Devoir)
• Pourquoi des établissements culturels québécois s’allient à Wikipédia? (Le Devoir)
• Japanese Craftsman Restores Old Books To Look Good As New (Bookish Buzz)
• YALSA Announces Top Ten Graphic Novels for Teens (ICv2)
• Les bibliothèques, ces nouveaux refuges (La Presse+)
• Les biblios peuvent-elles promouvoir l’existence des ovnis? (Le Devoir)
• Marie Kondo’s Book Tidying Advice Is Not About Throwing Away Books (Book Riot)
• The ‘Future Book’ Is Here, but It’s Not What We Expected (Wired)

Entertainments & pop culture 

• ‘Robotech’ Gets ‘Savage Worlds’ Treatment (ICv2)
• Temporal Anomaly : A Star Trek Fan Production on Youtube (Part 1 & Part 2)
• Game of Thrones Season 8 Picture Gallery (ICv2)
• Alita Beats expectations (ICv2)
• 500 Days of Summer’s Marc Webb Directs Hollywood Remake of Makoto Shinkai’s your name. (ANN)
• 91st Academy Awards nominees & winners (link)
• Where is K-pop going in 2019? (LA Times)
• Watch the first Westworld 3 trailer (The Verge)
• HBO Releases ‘Game of Thrones’ Documentary ‘The Last Watch’ Trailer (Cosmopolitan)
• Terry Gilliam on the Madness of Don Quixote (RollingStones)
• William Shatner Defends Tarantino’s R-Rated Star Trek (IndieWire)
• Trailers for ‘Dark Crystal,’ ‘Jessica Jones’ S3, and ‘Westworld’ S3, Plus News on ‘Stumptown’ and a Stan Lee Animated Series (ICv2)
• The Best Movies and TV Shows New on Netflix Canada in June (The New York Times)
• ‘Akira’ Movie Release Date Set for May 2021 (Hollywood Reporter)
• Movie Trailers This Week: ‘Toy Story 4,’ ‘Downton Abbey,’ ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’ and More (The Hollywood Reporter)
• First ‘Star Trek: Picard’ Teaser (ICv2)
• The Wandering Earth: Netflix Surprise Drops $700M Chinese Blockbuster (IndieWire)
• HBO’s ‘Watchmen’ Teaser Trailer (ICv2)
• R.I.P. James Hudnall (ICv2)
• Third ‘Walking Dead’ Series, ‘Preacher’ Ending, ‘Monsters at Work’ Casting, Disney Channel Gets ‘Miraculous,’ Three More ‘Marvel Rising’ Specials, John Cho in ‘Cowboy Bebop’ (ICv2)
• Muscular nationalism: China uses new sci-fi film to sell its vision of the future (Ottawa Citizen via PressReader)
• ‘Downton Abbey’ Movie Trailer Debuts at CinemaCon (Variety)
• Leonardo DiCaprio’s ‘Akira’ to Shoot in California (Variety)
• Why Are Western Audiences Falling Head Over Heels For K-Dramas? (MTV)
• SelfMadeHero Announces Fall 2019 Lineup (ICv2)
• A streaming guide to Disney+, Apple TV+, HBO Max, and NBCUniversal (Quartzy)
• ‘Stargirl’ Teaser, R.I.P. Rene Auberjonois, ‘The Boys’ S2 Trailer, ‘Lost in Space’ S2 Trailer, ‘Locke & Key’ Gets A Date, ‘Doctor Who’ Premiere (ICv2)
• How Chinese Sci-Fi Conquered America (NYT)
• Apple TV+ Plus Guide: Here’s all the Apple TV shows and movies available now (9 to 5 Mac)
• Disney + and ‘The Mandalorian’ Are Driving People Back to Torrenting (Vice)
• Disney Plus: Every movie and TV show arriving on launch day (Polygon)
• How to watch Disney Plus on iPhone, iPad, MacBook, Apple TV (9to5Mac)
• Apple TV+ adaptation of ‘Foundation’ will star Jared Harris and Lee Pace (Engadget)
• What to Know About the World of ‘Watchmen’ (Rolling Stone)
• The Unsolved Case of the Most Mysterious Song on the Internet (Rolling Stone, Youtube)
• Steven Spielberg’s ‘Masters of the Air’ Finds Home at Apple TV+ (IndieWire)
• Dunlevy at TIFF: Montrealer’s Indigenous zombie movie stuns audience (Montreal Gazette)
• What’s the statute of limitations on movie spoilers? (The Washington Post)
• Ken Burns Discusses ‘Country Music’, His New PBS Docuseries and Lil Nas X (Esquire)
• ‘The Matrix 4’ Should Be a Fascinating & Timely Sequel (The Atlantic, The Verge)
• Accusations of plagiarism continue to plague Disney’s The Lion King (Montreal Gazette via pressreader)
• The folly of faithfully adapting The Goldfinch (The Week)
• Bolstered By New Acquisitions, New CTV Suite Of Specialty Channels To Be Unveiled September 12 (CTV)
• John Krasinski is back as Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan in first season 2 trailer (Flickering Myth)
• Dune movie to gender-swap the role of Liet Kynes? (Winter is coming)
• Brunner’s Folivari, Studiocanal, Canal Plus Set ‘Baker Street Four’ (Variety)
• Fantasia 2019 : huit visions japonaises du désir (shomingeki)
• Poldark season 5: Four reasons to watch the final series of the hit BBC show (The Sun)
• ‘The Walking Dead’ Comic to End This Week (ICv2)
• ‘Sandman’ Goes to TV (ICv2)
• SolarFlare Launches ‘ROBOTECH: Crisis Point’ (ICv2)
• Alita: Battle Angel succeeds where other cyberpunk films have failed (A.Side)
• Temporal Anomaly is a Star Trek Fan Film Half a Decade in the Making (Gizmodo)
• Des nouvelles du Dune de Denis Villeneuve (Voir)
• Windmills of Your Mind composer Michel Legrand dies aged 86 (BBC)

Health, Home & Environment

• Joe Schwarcz The Gazette chronicle: The Right Chemistry (The Gazette)
• The Right Chemistry: Understanding of gout has evolved (Montreal Gazette)
• Simple saliva test could predict breast-cancer risk: study (Montreal Gazette)
• Humanity is killing itself with fat, and we’re going to show you how the Apple Watch can save you (Apple Insider)
• New drug raises hopes of reversing memory loss in old age (The Guardian)
• French authorities warn of health dangers from LED lighting (CTV News)
• ‘You idiots … The planet’s on f–ing fire!’ Bill Nye’s message to leaders stalling on climate change (National Post)
• Apple is releasing new healthcare features for older consumers (Business Insider)
• 20 Easy Indoor Plants (Chatelaine)
• The case against cats: Why Australia has declared war on feral felines (CNN)
• Pay Attention to Books Deadly Dust (link)
• Breathing paper dust is harmful to health (link)
• Respiratory symptoms and asthma among workers exposed to paper dust (link, Google)
• Sick coyote spotted in Ahuntsic-Cartierville (Montreal Gazette)
• Cannabis vs. tobacco: What science says about the health risks of smoking (CTV)
• The young minds solving climate change (BBC)
• The asbestos legacy: Can mining residues be repurposed safely? (Montreal Gazette)
• Greenpeace Co-Founder: ‘Climate Crisis Is Not Only Fake News. It’s Fake Science’ (Daily Caller)
• 11 life-saving skills everyone should know (Insider)
• Anal cancer rates and deaths are climbing in the US, study says (CNN)
• Sweet discovery sees more than 10kg of honey, 60,000 bees removed from couple’s home (ABC)
• The World Can Make More Water From the Sea, but at What Cost? (NYT)
• Would you let this woman whisper you to sleep? Inside the ‘brain-tingling’ world of ASMR videos (The Telegraph)
• For Diabetics, Weight-Loss Surgery Slashes the Risk of Death (Bloomberg)
• Creative Tricks Food Stylists Use to Entice You (Chowhound)
• Mystery solved? Why cats eat grass (Science Mag)
• How the sound in your home affects your mood (BBC)
• 23andMe venturing onto Apple’s turf with health data collection (Apple Insider)
• Health Canada Says Contact Apple for Apple Watch ECG App Release Date (iPhone in Canada)
• A complex digestive disease: Irritable bowel syndrome (Saskatoon Star-Phoenix via PressReader)
• Fitness: Do you really need to log 10,000 steps a day? (Montreal Gazette)
• Can Fitbit Recover From Its Post-Earnings Fumble? (Fool)
• Study: Blueberries might lower risk of heart disease by 20% (USA Today)
• Urban Organics Wants to Fix Food (Outside Online)
• New drug raises hopes of reversing memory loss in old age (The Guardian)
• Heart Analyzer for Apple Watch adds live heart rate support, improved complications, more (9 to 5 Mac)
• I constantly fumed at ‘selfish’ drivers, rude cellphone users, slow walkers — and then I learned a lesson (Washington Post)
• Apple’s ‘How to take an ECG’ video teaches how to use the feature on an Apple Watch Series 4 (Apple Insider)
• Extreme weather shatters records around the world (CNN)
• Radio voice Nat Lauzon is in a battle against her own ears (Montreal Gazette)
• Is taking 10,000 steps every day really the magical path to achieving your fitness goals? (National Post)
• Le nouveau «Guide alimentaire canadien» expliqué en deux minutes (Le Devoir)
• Alzheimer’s Disease: Could New Approach Lead to a Breakthrough? (Fortune)
• Conditions de température – Législation : Réponses SST (lien)
• Jonathan Franzen tackles environmentalism, social media and art in new set of essays (Calgary Herald)
• CDC says it’s another severe flu season with up to 7.3 million people sick so far (CNBC)
• Is Marijuana as Safe as We Think? (The New Yorker)

History & Sciences

• Life probably exists beyond Earth. So how do we find it? (National Geographic)
• Pompeii dig uncovers Narcissus fresco in ancient atrium (AP, Time)
• Huge, Shaggy Head of 30,000-Year-Old Wolf Unearthed in Siberia (Gizmodo)
• Science has brought back the scent of a long-dead flower (Engadget)
• SETI@home, the Alien-Hunting Project for the Nonscientist, Turns 20 (The Ringer)
• 2,300-Year-Old Bark Shield Showcases a Previously Unknown Iron Age Technology (Gizmodo)
• Why this stunning dinosaur fossil discovery has scientists stomping mad (Maclean’s)
• Archaeologists Uncover an Ancient Roman Game Board at Hadrian’s Wall (Smithsonian)
• Newly Discovered Bat-Like Dinosaur Reveals the Intricacies of Prehistoric Flight (Smithsonian)
• Denisovan Jawbone Discovered in a Cave in Tibet (New York Time)
• 8 New Spire Designs That Could Crown the Notre Dame Cathedral (Dwell)
• Check out the first pics of the asteroid crater made by a Japanese spacecraft (The Verge)
• The Helvetica Typeface Has Been Redesigned for the Digital Age (Smithsonian)
• Sounds of first ‘Marsquake’ detected (USA Today)
• This Transparent Wood Could Be an Energy-Saver in Green Buildings (Smithsonian)
• Stonehenge was built by descendants of Neolithic migrants, DNA study shows (NBC)
• Astrophysicists find elusive molecule that ‘kick-started’ the universe (CBC)
• An Interstellar Meteor May Have Collided with Earth in 2014 (Smithsonian)
• Say goodbye, Canada. The North Pole is moving to Russia (Maclean’s)
• Notre-Dame fire: Paris surveys aftermath of cathedral blaze (BBC)
• DNA quirk could reveal mysteries of Newfoundland’s first settlers (CTV)
• Notre-Dame Fire Photos: Despair and Grief Amid Smoke and Flame (The New York Times)
• What’s next in black hole research (Axios)
• The Fate of Rome : climate, disease and the end of an empire (The Guardian)
• This Native American inscription was found deep inside a cave. Two centuries later, scholars think they understand its meaning (Washington Post)
• New early human species discovered in the Philippines (DW)
• See the first image ever taken of a supermassive black hole (The Verge, NPR, NYT)
• Stunning 10-Foot Statue of Roman Emperor Found Under Ancient Fountain in Turkey (Gizmodo)
• Japan spacecraft drops explosive on asteroid to make crater (AP)
• ‘How to Think Like a Roman Emperor’ Review: Meditations for the Masses (WSJ)
• Chicxulub asteroid impact: Stunning fossils record dinosaurs’ demise (BBC)
• ‘Discovery of the century’: Treasure trove of fossils sheds light on dinosaurs’ last days (CBC)
• Builders uncover a section of Hadrian’s Wall (Hexham Courant)
• Surprising DNA found in ancient people from southern Europe (National Geographic)
• Winter solstice 2019: A short day that’s long on ancient traditions (CNN)
• Earth’s magnetic north pole is heading for Russia and scientists are puzzled (CNN)
• Russian scientists present 18,000 year old puppy found in permafrost (Times of Israel, Washington Post)
• Scientists Uncovered 143 More Huge Ancient Drawings In Peru (Vice)
• Nasa probes oxygen mystery on Mars (BBC)
• Early Humans Reached Greek Island 200,000 Years Ago, Changing Picture of Spread From Africa (Haaretz)
• ‘A solemn space’: first interior shots of Franklin’s HMS Terror released (CTV, Kingston Whig-Standard)
• Mysterious waves have been pulsing across Oklahoma (NG)
• Goodbye Atlantis, Hello ‘Greater Adria’. A Lost Continent Has Been Found By Geologists (Forbes)
• Ancient tablets may reveal what destroyed Minoan civilization (Haaretz.com)
• The finding of the oldest human skull changes evolution science (Quartz)
• ‘Unprecedented’ fossil skull reveals face of human ancestor (NG)
• Colossal volcano behind ‘mystery’ global cooling finally found (NG)
• When the Public Feared That Library Books Could Spread Deadly Diseases (Smithsonian)
• The Dawn of American Slavery (Washington Post)
• Four hundred years after enslaved Africans were first brought to Virginia, most Americans still don’t know the full story of slavery (NYT)
• Nile shipwreck discovery proves Herodotus right – after 2,469 years (The Guardian)
• Inside Robert Ballard’s search for Amelia Earhart’s airplane (NG)
• Truly ancient vintages (Montreal Gazette via Pressreader)
• Science of summer: How many trees does it take to cool a city? (Ottawa Citizen)
• 1,700-year-old recently discovered Christian letter offers clues into how faithful lived centuries ago (Fox News)
• 22 ancient amphoras found off Albanian coast (AP)
• Finally, Scientists Know Why Toxoplasma Has Sex in Cats (The Atlantic)
• Japan says space probe landed on asteroid to get soil sample (AP)
• A Skull Bone Discovered in Greece May Alter the Story of Human Prehistory (NYT)
• Earliest modern human found outside Africa (BBC)
• Discovering Gilgamesh, the World’s First Action Hero (NG)
• How a single 1,000-year-old coin could change the history of an entire continent and prove seafarers reached Australia hundreds of years before Capitain Cook (The Sun)
• The first Europeans weren’t who you might think (NG)
• Bones found in Gaspe confirmed to be from 1847 shipwreck victims fleeing Irish potato famine (CTV)
• Human remains found in Gaspé are from 1847 shipwreck, Parks Canada confirms (CBC)
• Bones found in Quebec’s Gaspé in 2016 are from 1847 shipwreck, Parks Canada says (The Star)
• Plateau Astro aims to get everyday Montrealers excited about astronomy (Montreal Gazette)
• Golden Discovery (Montreal Gazette via PressReader)
• Ancient DNA reveals new twists in Neanderthal migration (NG)
• Desalination Is Booming as Cities Run out of Water (Wired)
• Oldest non-human stone tools outside Africa found in Brazil (NG)
• Using CRISPR to resurrect the dead (CNET)
• The Twins That Are Neither Identical nor Fraternal (The Atlantic)
• Scientists see evidence of underground lakes system on Mars (AP)
• A Japanese Spacecraft Has Landed on an Asteroid to Look for Clues on Origins of Life (Time)
• 3,700-Year-Old ‘Mystery’ Babylonian Tablet Gets Translated (The Epoch Times)
• Do Animals Have Feelings? (The Atlantic)
• Résultats de recherche de “Lucius Verus” dans Atrium (UdeM Biblio)
• Beef-friendly Nebraska eyes regulations on the word ‘meat’ (National Post)
• The North Magnetic Pole’s Mysterious Journey Across the Arctic (NYT)
• More than 40 mummies discovered at Egypt burial site (CNN)
• Africans may have crossed the Strait of Gibraltar 4000 years ago (New Scientist)
• Cats In Ancient Egypt Didn’t Look The Way You Think (Forbes)
• Une «échelle de la grimace» mesurera la douleur chez le chat (UdeM Nouvelles)
• Dig reveals some of Quebec City’s archaeological secrets, but location of Champlain’s tomb remains a mystery (The Globe and Mail)
• Fascinating Chart Details The History of the Alphabet (My Modern Met)
• Quebecers deeply curious about their ancestry: poll (Montreal Gazette via PressReader)
• Nazi blueprint for North American Holocaust acquired by Canada archive (The Guardian)
• Faraway space snowman is pitted and has bright ‘collar’ (AP)
• ‘Missing link’ in human history confirmed after long debate (CNN)
• «Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey»: faire renaître la Grèce antique par le jeu vidéo (Le Devoir)
• Inuit blame spate of deaths on ‘cursed’ shipwreck of Franklin’s doomed expedition (The Telegraph, National Post)
• Medieval skeleton found with rare, expensive blue ink embedded in teeth, could rewrite women’s history (USA Today)
• The Hubble Space Telescope has a glitch — again (The Washington Post)
• Nasa spacecraft spots gaseous planet three times the size of Earth (The Guardian)
• Des grillons seraient à l’origine des attaques sonores de La Havane (Le Devoir)

Humour

• Far Side creator Gary Larson launches website with promise of new work (The Guardian)
• Seriously funny: exhibition highlights cartoonists’ focus on U.S. First Amendment (Montreal Gazette via PressReader)
• Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau: December 18, 2016
• Rhymes with Orange (January 23, 2019)
• Rhymes with Orange (January 28, 2019)
• Non Sequitur (January 31, 2019)
• Non Sequitur (February 5, 2019)
• Rhymes with Orange (February 5, 2019)
• Mutts (February 10, 2019)
• Dilbert (February 18, 2019)
• Dilbert (February 28, 2019)
• Non Sequitur (February 28, 2019)
• Rhymes with Orange (March 20, 2019)
• Non Sequitur (March 21, 2019)
• Between Friends (April 2, 2019)
• Between Friends (April 8, 2019)
• Between Friends (April 11, 2019)
• Bizarro (April 8, 2019)
• Non Sequitur (April 8, 2019)
• Dilbert (April 10, 2019)
• Non Sequitur (April 10, 2019)
• Rhymes with Orange (May 30, 2019)
• Pearls Before Swine  (June 9, 2019)
• Blondie (June 11, 2019)
• Between Friends (December 01, 2019)

Japan & Japanese popular culture

• Dr. Stone, Age 12, More Win 64th Shogakukan Manga Awards (Anime News Network0
• 12th Manga Taisho Awards Nominate 13 Titles (Anime News Network)
• The Founder: Visionary Shogun, Ieyasu a drama on NHK World (link)
• Berlinale 2019: The Panorama Audience Awards go to 37 Seconds and Talking About Trees (press release, Japan Times, Variety, 37 Seconds info on Berlinale website)
• VIZ Announces Six New Manga Series (ICv2)
• Live-Action Saint Young Men Series Listed With 2nd, 3rd Seasons (ANN)
• Square Enix to Publish Manga in English (ICv2)
• Anime could give Netflix a major advantage against Disney in the streaming war (Business Insider)
• Le plafond de verre des Japonaises (Le Devoir)
• NHK WORLD-JAPAN, Japan’s Global 24-Hour, English-Language Television Channel, Joins ROKU, America’s Most Popular Streaming TV Platform (GlobeNewswire)
• Netflix Adds Evangelion Anime Worldwide on June 21 (Anime News Network)
• Top 2019 Manga Trends (ICv2)
• Udon Sets Release for ‘Rose of Versailles’ Manga (ICv2)
• Des Japonais entre deux mondes au FNCM 2019 (shomingeki)
• Review: ‘Cats of the Louvre’ (ICv2)
• NYCC: Kodansha, Tokyopop Announce New Manga Licenses (ICv2)
• Oldest written copy of ‘missing’ part of classic work ‘Tale of Genji’ discovered (The Japan Times)
• Lost chapter of world’s first novel found in Japanese storeroom (The Guardian)
• Junji Ito’s ‘Uzumaki’ on Adult Swim, Junko Mizuno Art Book, Psychedelic Manga, Hot Firemen, ‘Transformers’ Art Book, ‘Pokemon’ Omnibi (ICv2)
• Craving Freedom, Japan’s Women Opt Out of Marriage (NYT)
• Frederik L. Schodt interviewed on Osamu Tezuka Disney Lion King controversy (Stone Bridge Press)
• The Lion King vs Kimba the White Lion: Does Disney Need to Come Clean? (Hollywood Reporter)
• Lion King: Disney vets weigh in on Kimba controversy (SyFy)
• Damage From Kyoto Animation Fire Labeled ‘Extreme’ (ICv2)
• Udon Entertainment Releases 1st Volume of The Rose of Versailles Manga in December (Anime News Network)
• Japan in Shock After Suspected Arson at Kyoto Animation Studio Kills 33 (NYT)
• Kyoto Animation fire: Arson attack at Japan anime studio kills 33 (BBC)
• Live-Action Akira Film Delayed Indefinitely (Anime News Network)
• Human Lost Anime Film Opens in N. America Before Japan (Anime News Network)
• Evangelion is finally on Netflix. I don’t need a rewatch, because the trauma lives on in me (The Washington Post)
• Animated discussion: Cult favourite still pack punch for modern audiences (Edmonton Journal via Pressreader)
• VIZ Announces ‘Transformers’ Manga at Anime Expo (ICv2)
• Yen Press Announces Manga and Light Novel Licenses at Anime Expo (ICv2)
• Katsuhiro Otomo Announces New Projects at Anime Expo (ICv2)
• Square Enix, Vertical, Denpa, Soi Press Announce Manga at Anime Expo (ICv2)
• Kodansha Comics to Bring Back ‘Saiyuki,’ ‘Chobits,’ ‘Clover’ (ICv2)
• ‘Neon Genesis Evangelion’ On Netflix, A First-Timer Watches The Controversial Classic (Forbes, via Apple News)
• VIZ, Yen Press, Seven Seas Announce New Manga (ICv2)
• Dark Horse Licenses Their First Food Manga (ICv2)
• Yuri Manga 101 (ICv2)
• Reclining Buddha temple priests frustrated by foreign tourists’ bad manners (The Mainichi)
• Mamoru Hosoda’s Mirai Film Wins Annie Award for Best Animated Independent Feature (Anime News Network)
• Star Blazers Reborn (ICv2, ANN)
• New Manga Climbs ‘At the Mountains of Madness’ (ICv2)
• Yen Press, Seven Seas Announce New Manga Titles (ICv2)

Local News

• Brownstein: Escape the cold in Montreal’s underrated underground city (Montreal Gazette)
• Strange case of the Liberal MP who said he was resigning but wouldn’t leave (Montreal Gazette)
• Plus de chutes sur la glace en 2019 à Montréal et à Laval (Radio-Canada)
• ‘Culture of intimidation’ has Festival du nouveau cinéma in crisis, co-founder says (Gazette)
• Fini le «fax» dans le réseau de la santé d’ici 2023, dit Caire (Le Devoir)
• Une station du REM en zone inondable à Laval? (Le Devoir)
• ‘My life has been extreme’: Margaret Trudeau speaks with candour in new one-woman show (National Post)
• Une page d’histoire se tourne pour l’ONF, de Saint-Laurent au Quartier des spectacles (Journal Métro)
• Marvin Rotrand calls for crackdown on transit fare cheats (Montreal Gazette)
• Quebec Proposes Bill Barring Public Employees From Wearing Head Scarves at Work (NYT)
• City to accept draft petition in man’s crusade to limit Publisacs distribution (Montreal Gazette)
• Beis blasts Plante on snow clearing, calls city streets a ‘war zone’ (Montreal Gazette)
• Indigenous women’s group calls for abolition of the Indian Act (Montreal Gazette)
• Les nouveaux lampadaires à DEL de Montréal suscitent des questions (Journal Métro)
• Un budget de 6 milliards, en hausse de 8,1% (Le Devoir)
• De combien vont augmenter les taxes foncières dans votre arrondissement? (Le Devoir)
• Confusion as Aeroplan announces changes to status program (CTV)
• Quebec blazes a trail for amputees by covering new type of prosthetic leg (Montreal Gazette)
• STM does significant work behind the scenes (Montreal Gazette)
• Montreal’s Public Transit Network Map Of The Future Shown In New Design From ARTM (MTL Blog)
• Montréal a frôlé la catastrophe financière (TVA)
• The Montreal Metro Etiquette Everyone Should Respect (MTL Blog)
• Kampaï Montreal and the rise of sake savoir faire (Montreal Gazette)
• Montreal 360 (YouTube)
• Le REM, ce voisin indésirable (Le Devoir)
• 250 filmmakers sign letter protesting against NFB management (Montreal Gazette)
• Trudeau’s sunny days clouding over in Quebec, poll shows (Montreal Gazette)
• “Vue sur la sécurité publique” : un outil de visualisation cartographique et historique permettant de consulter facilement des données policières à Montréal (lien)
• La vente de desserts au cannabis sera interdite au Québec (Le Devoir)
• Nouveaux valideurs dans les bus (STM, Communiqué)
• Vol de données: Desjardins rajuste le tir (Le Devoir)
• Vol de données : une protection permanente offerte à tous les membres de Desjardins (Radio-Canada)
• Uber-owned fleet of electric bikes arrives in Montreal (Global, Montreal Gazette)
• Jump: Uber’s electric bike-sharing service coming to Montreal soon (Montreal Gazette)
• Huit employés ont dénoncé la mairesse de Villeray pour du harcèlement (TVA)
• Le Règlement sur le Service de sécurité incendie (12-003) en vigueur depuis 2012 est amendé (SIM)
• Une Montréalaise publie toutes les choses racistes qu’on lui dit sur Facebook (Vice)
• Some are calling Ontario’s latest salt shortage unprecedented (CBC)
• Refugees hoping to become citizens face high bar to achieve language benchmarks (Montreal Gazette)
• Montreal librarians, urban planners reject contract offer, blast mayor (Montreal Gazette)

 Photo / videography

• The Instagram Obsession With Flowers Is Killing Them (The Ringer)
• Apple and Google prove camera software is more important than megapixels (Android Authority)
• Adobe Photoshop Arrives for iPad (AppAdvice)
• How to take advantage of the photo-editing tools in iOS 13 and iPadOS 13 (MacWorld)
• What Is QuickTake? This iPhone 11 Video Feature Will Remind You Of Instagram Stories (Bustle)
• iMovie for iOS updated with new green screen effect, 80 fresh soundtracks, more (9to5Mac)
• How you can organize all those old prints into a picture-perfect collection (Ottawa Citizen / Sacramento Bee via Press Reader)

Politics, Economy & Society

• The Montreal mission to restore once hidden, forbidden Afghan films (Montreal Gazette)
• Trump declares border national emergency to bipartisan skepticism (CNN)
• Here’s what the Green New Deal actually says (CNN)
• The Decline of Historical Thinking (The New Yorker)
• Hear Robert Mueller’s full statement (CNN)
• Bill Nye the Science Guy Explaining Why it Costs Money to Save the Planet (YouTube)
• Gloria Vanderbilt, heiress and socialite, dies at 95 (NBC)
• Duterte threatens ‘war’ against Canada over trash shipped to Philippines (CNN)
• Read the Mueller report: The full redacted version, annotated (Washington Post)
• Trump’s GOP challenger: Former Mass Gov. Bill Weld says he’s running (USA Today, CNBC, Washington Examiner)
• Colbert Takes Collusion Off ‘List of Reasons Trump Is Unfit to Be President’ (The New York Times)
• Trump claims vindication in Mueller report, goes on attack (AP)
• #NeverPete: How Buttigieg has drawn the fury of the online left (CNN)
• Greta Thunberg: TIME’s Person of the Year 2019 (Time)
• House Democrats Unveil Articles of Impeachment Against Trump (NYT)
• Read the House Democrats’ Report on the Impeachment Inquiry (NYT)
• The 11 nations of the United States and their cultures (Business Insider)
• The Taiwanese call the Millenials the “Strawberry generation” because they “bruise easily” ! (Wikipedia)
• A Great Example of Better Data Visualization: This Voting Map GIF (Core77)
• Why Evangelicals Support Donald Trump (NYT)
• This Is the Moment Rachel Maddow Has Been Waiting For (NYT, maddowblog)
• Why Greta Makes Adults Uncomfortable (The Atlantic)
• The Misogyny of Climate Deniers (The New Republic)
• Esper confirmed as Defense secretary (Politoco) [The U.S. has an ESPER as SecDef ?! :>]
• Trump Somehow Ended Up Speaking in Front of a Presidential Seal That Said “45 Is a Puppet” in Spanish (VICE)
• Cohen accuses Trump over WikiLeaks, calls him ‘racist’ and ‘conman’ (Reuters)
• The Four Horsemen review: whatever happened to ‘New Atheism’? (The Guardian)
• How climate change is behind this week’s extreme cold snap (CBC)
• Non-public materials from special counsel case used in pro-Russian effort to discredit Russia probe (CNN)
• Ruth Bader Ginsburg And The Murky History of Supreme Court Justices’ Health (NPR)
• Mortal Republic: Edward Watts on what America can learn from Rome’s collapse (Vox)
• The people’s tyrant: what Plato can teach us about Donald Trump (Vox)
• Saudi teen refugee Rahaf Mohammed is dropping her family name. Here’s how she’s starting her new life in Canada (Global)
• Cops can’t force you to unlock phone with face or fingerprint scan (Cult of Mac)
• Ruth Bader Ginsburg absent from Supreme Court bench for second day in a row (CNN)
• The life story of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: bartender to lawmaker (Insider)

Technology & Gadgets

• Hyundai’s New Concept Car Can Walk on Four Legs (Fortune, Daily Mail, Seattle Times, The Gazette via PressReader)
• Nest locks users out of accounts if their passwords have been breached (The Verge)
• Belkin launches compact Apple Watch power bank, extends battery life up to 63 hours (9to5Mac)
• The best portable Apple Watch power banks to use while traveling (9to5Mac)
• Cord cutters can stream their favorite TV shows, movies for free (USA Today)
• The best smart outlets you can buy (Business Insider)
• GOSPACE SuperCharger (Cult of Mac Deals)
• World’s first fully electric commercial aircraft takes flight in Canada (The Guardian)
• How Jabra’s Amazing New Earbuds Measure Up to AirPods Pro (Gizmodo)
• EVE Home products (link)
• The $15 accessory every MacBook owner needs (ZDNET)
• This $10 dongle changed how I use my iPad (Cult of Mac)
• Nest mesh wi-fi (link)
• Vidéotron bets ‘hundreds of millions’ on new Helix technology platform (Montreal Gazette)
• PDF files are a pain to edit, but I found 4 free apps to make it easy (CNET)
• Anker’s PowerWave+ Pad charges both iPhone and Apple Watch (9 to 5 Mac, Amazon)
• These smart batteries recharge in under 2 hours and outlast standard lithium-ion (Digital Trends)
• “Foundations of Rome” computer game by Arcane Wonders (link)
• The Best New Smart Telescopes for Every Budget (Men’s Journal)
• Transit aims to improve bus time accuracy with machine learning (Montreal Gazette)
• We have a long way to go before fully trusting new tech (Driving)
• Don’t be a creep with your Ring doorbell or Nest security camera. Follow these steps (The Washington Post)
• Camera Guard Mac 3 Offers Improved Webcam and Mic Blocker Protections for Mac (MacTrast)
• Best MacBook and MacBook Pro stands, docks and more for 2019 (9 to 5 Toys)
• The Gaze Tray is Apple’s AirPower Charger with a Lifestyle-design Touch (Yanko Design)