[BLOG] Some Friday links

• The Boston Globe‘s Big Picture reports on Olympics evictions in Brazil, compares school life in Boston and Haiti, and follows an elderly man climbing Mount Washington.
• blogTO suggests jets will not be coming to the Toronto Island airport and argues the city is unlikely to legalize Uber.
• The Broadside Blog examines the staggering level of income inequality in the United States.
• Centauri Dreams considers, in real-life and science fiction, the problems with maintaining artificial economies and notes the complexities of the Pluto system.
• Crooked Timber notes the problems of organized labour and Labour in the United Kingdom.
• The Dragon’s Gaze notes how atmospheric oxygen may not automatically point to the sign of life.
• The Dragon’s Tales maps volcanic heat flow on Io and wonders if that world has a subsurface magna ocean
• Far Outliers notes a popular thief in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan and looks at the politicization of the German military after the 1944 coup.
• Geocurrents calls for recognizing the independence of Iraqi Kurdistan and Somaliland and looks at the geography of American poverty.
• Language Log notes Sinified Japanese.
• Lawyers, Guns and Money examines the complexities of race and history in New Mexico.
• Marginal Revolution notes that India unlike China cannot sustain global growth, approves of Snyder’s Black Earth, and notes poor economic outcomes for graduates of some American universities.
• Otto Pohl is not optimistic about Ghana’s economic future.
• The Planetary Society Blog evaluates the latest images from Mars.
• pollotenchegg evaluates the 1931 Polish census in what is now western Ukraine.
• The Power and the Money’s Noel Maurer looks at why Syrian refugees will not be resettled in South America and observes that Mexico has birthright citizenship.
• Cheri Lucas Rowlands describes the negative relationship for her between blogging and writing.
• The Russian Demographics Blog examines rising mortality in Ukraine and notes changing ethnic compositions of Tajikistan’s populations.
• Savage Minds talks about the importance of teaching climate change in anthropology.
• Transit Toronto notes Toronto now has nine new streetcars.
• Whatever’s John Scalzi considers the situation of poor people who go to good schools.
• Window on Eurasia notes the lack of Russian nationalism in the Donbas, observes the scale of the refugee problem in Ukraine, and looks at Russian alienation of Moldova.