[BLOG] Some Monday links

• blogTO shares pictures of the stark modernism intended for Toronto’s subway stations.
• The Broadside Blog’s Caitlin Kelly notes problems with the American mass media’s coverage of inequality.
• Centauri Dreams shares Andrew Lepage’s essay on how, judging by radius and theoretical models, many of the supposedly Earth-like planets discovered are likely much more massive.
• Cody Delistraty links to his essay at The Atlantic talking about why people tell stories.
• The Dragon’s Gaze links to a paper examining nearby red dwarf/brown dwarf binary WISE J072003.20-084651.2.
• The Dragon’s Tales notes that Scottish separatism is still going strong.
• A Fistful of Euros’ Edward Hugh notes the steady deterioration of the Japanese economy.
• Joe. My. God. notes that Apple is worth more than the entire Russian stock market.
• Language Hat examines the etymology of “fair dinkum”.
• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the terrible Japanese treatment, in history and in life, of comfort women.
• Marginal Revolution notes the sustained territorial expansion of Russia.
• The Power and the Money’s Noel Maurer argues that Iraqi Kurdistan is likely to declare independence quite soon.
• The Russian Demographics Blog shares a table showing population growth in select major world countries since 1820.
• Spacing Toronto makes the case for humanizing the Toronto skyline by giving its towers nicknames.
• Towleroad notes that Nicolas Sarkozy would like to repeal France’s same-sex marriage law, and looks at gay American director Lee Daniels.
• Window on Eurasia looks at Russia’s fragile system of government, considers the fall of the Berlin Wall from a Russian perspective as a new partition of Europe, looks at reaction to a call to shift Ukrainian to a Latin alphabet, suggests Russian subsidies to Belarus may soon come to an end, and looks at radicalism among Tajik labour migrants in Russia.
• Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell disbelieves rumours of an alleged Labour revolt.