[BLOG] Some Wednesday links
- blogTO ranks Toronto’s newest neighbourhoods from best to worst.
- The Dragon’s Gaze suggests exoplanets which receive between 60 to 90% of the energy the Earth received are likely to support broadly Earth-like conditions.
- The Dragon’s Tales links to a paper suggesting the solar system likely did not eject a fifth gas giant and looks at what happened to the very early crust of the Earth.
- Language Hat talks about the language use of writer Raymond Federman and tries to find a story with an unusual method of inputting Japanese.
- Marginal Revolution notes dropping fluency in English in China.
- The Power and the Money’s Noel Maurer describes how he kicked a man dressed as Adolf Hitler out of a Halloween party.
- Towleroad notes an interracial German-Thai gay couple mocked on social media has married.
- Window on Eurasia wonders whether Russia will use the recent crash of a Russian plane in the Sinai to justify a widened war.
Written by Randy McDonald
November 4, 2015 at 7:56 pm
Posted in Assorted, Demographics, Economics, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Science, Social Sciences, Toronto, Urban Note
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