[BLOG] Some Thursday links

• blogTO notes that Québec chain Simons will be opening up stories in Toronto and Mississauga in the coming years.
• The Broadside Blog’s Caitlin Kelly notes that The Devil Wears Prada actually offers good advice to job-seekers.
• Centauri Dreams notes a search program for planets at Proxima Centauri and considers Proxima’s linkage to the Alpha Centauri A-B binary.
• The Dragon’s Gaze notes distant gas giant HD 106906b.
• Joe. My. God. notes that acceptance of gays is at an all-time high.
• The Map Room Blog links to an exhibition of colonial cartography of Algeria and points to an essay on critical cartography.
• Marginal Revolution notes high levels of female mortality in the US South.
• Savage Minds considers the question of how to exhibit physical artifacts in an era of 3-D printing.
• John Scalzi’s Whatever and Charlie Stross’ Antipope mourn the death of science fiction editor David Hartwell.
• Window on Eurasia notes Russia’s growing difficulties wth Chechen dictator Kadyrov, observes that most Tajiks recruited for ISIS are recruited as workers in Russia, suggests the annexation of Crimea helped bolster Russia’s ethnic Russian and Slavic populations, and notes hostility in Chuvashia towards Russian language policy in education.