[BLOG] Some Thursday links

• The Burgh Diaspora’s Jim Russell notes that Canadians don’t migrate that much within their country in response to economic stimuli.
• Collide-a-scape’s Keith Kloor wonders why an ostensibly pro-science city like Portland, Oregon, has taken fluoride out of its water.
• Geocurrents notes the rapid fall of fertility rates in Turkey and Iran.
• Itching in Eestimaa’s Palun wonders about future multilingualism in Estonia.
• At Lawyers, Guns and Money, Robert Farley wonders what would have become of Japanese admiral Isoruku Yamamoto had he lived to the end of the Second World War.
• Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution disagrees with Paul Krugman on the prospects of the Portuguese economy.
• The Numerati’s Stephen Baker is conflicted about Flickr’s upgrading, not least since they make all his photos available to everyone.
• Strange Maps produces a map where the Dakotas were divided differently, west-east along the Missouri River.
• Van Waffle describes, with photos, how a picture of an exotic pigeon inspired a beautiful shawl.
• Window on Eurasia notes that Circassians are unhappy with Russia.
• Alexander Harrowell notes that once-progressive David Goodhart is now using the language of far-right fascists to describe migrants and immigration.