[BLOG] Some Monday links
- blogTO notes that, this summer, there will be a play in Toronto about Target Canada’s demise set in an old Target store.
- Dangerous Minds shares photos of women using boxy early 1980s office computers.
- The Dragon’s Gaze links to one paper suggesting most super-Earths are mini-Neptunes and to another noting the odd disk of L1455 IRS1.
- The Dragon’s Tales looks at the huge problem of corporate debt in China.
- Joe. My. God. notes a new Indonesian ban on “effeminate” men from television.
- Language Hat notes German/Polish ethnolinguistic tensions in late medieval Poland.
- The Map Room Blog shares a link to posters of the New York subway.
- The Planetary Society Blog introduces readers to the new Lightsail 2 cubesat.
- The Power and the Money’s Noel Maurer looks at the terrible housing shortage in the coastal United States, especially the most desirable areas of said.
- Torontoist notes York University’s construction of new dorms.
- Window on Eurasia notes that the continuation of Western sanctions against Russia depends on Ukraine’s continued reforms.
- Arnold Zwicky takes issue with WordPress’ categorization system, from a linguistic perspective.
Written by Randy McDonald
February 29, 2016 at 7:47 pm
Posted in Assorted, Demographics, Economics, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Science, Social Sciences, Toronto, Urban Note, Writing
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