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Assorted Personal Notations, Essays, and Other Jottings

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

  • blogTO notes that Toronto will be holding a public meeting on ways to host the city’s music scene.
  • Centauri Dreams looks at a recent transit study of Alpha Centauri B that hints at the existence fo a second close-orbiting planet.
  • The Dragon’s Gaze links to a paper on rogue exoplanets.
  • The Dragon’s Tales looks at Korean military aircraft procurement.
  • Steve Munro writes at length about the minutiae of TTC signaling contracts.
  • Torontoist notes that most people in a recent Forum Research poll want alcoholic beverages to be available in grocery stores.
  • Towleroad argues that the show Looking could have benefitted from a mote interesting take on sex.
  • The Volokh Conspiracy suggests the Indiana religious freedom law isn’t as bad as described.
  • Window on Eurasia suggests Russians are misled about their relationship with China, notes the relative decline of the arms industry vis-a-vis more advanced competitors, looks at the impact on Crimean mass media of Russian annexation, and examines problematic links between Russia and Latvian Russophones.
  • The Yorkshire Ranter continues to write (1, 2, 3) about the ill-thought Biryani Project.