Jan 16, 2015 14:39
- blogTO notes that crowd-funded transit might be coming to Toronto's Beaches.
- The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly describes her favourite shopping experiences in Paris.
- Centauri Dreams considers the question of how to name planets.
- Crooked Timber discusses predictions for the coming year which descend into Bitcoin debates.
- The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper suggesting that giant stars tend not to have giant close-in planets.
- The Dragon's Tales links to a paper noting the complicated entry of maize from Mexico into the United States.
- Livejournaler jsburbidge notes the serious costs associated with a public housing problem for the homeless of Toronto.
- Marginal Revolution notes that many Poles hold mortgages denominated in Swiss francs, and have thus been hit by the recent currency fluctuations.
- Otto Pohl describes his writing project on the 1966 coup in Ghana.
- The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer notes the problems with inexpensive manned spaceflight.
- Torontoist and (again) blogTO and their commenters react to the end of Target Canada.
- Towleroad notes that anti-gay American Roman Catholic cardinal Raymond Burke is also a misogynist.
- Window on Eurasia argues that a Belarusian revolution would lead to a Russian invasion of that country, and wonders about European Union policy towards Crimea.
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