[BLOG] Some Monday links

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• blogTO lists the five oldest restaurants in Toronto, finding out that the oldest date from the 1920s.
• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly writes about how tourism helps revive her sense that people are good.
• Centauri Dreams considers how an Encyclopedia Galactica could possibly work.
• The Dragon's Gaze links to papers speculating that hot massive O-class stars HD
  60848 and IRAS 16547−4247 appear to have protoplanetary disks, and notes the discovery of a very low-mass brown dwarf.
• The Dragon's Tales links to an article suggesting that China will deploy military forces to Africa.
• The Everyday Sociology Blog considers the sociology of music.
• A Fistful of Euros' Sigrún Davíðsdóttir comes out against strongly against FX lending, like the franc-denominated mortgages of central Europe.
• Language Hat links to poetry from neglected languages and notes that in medieval Europe, Germanic areas had much better Latin than Romance areas where people thought they already spoke the language.
• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the Roman Catholic Church's uncomfortable relationship to colonizers.
• Marginal Revolution looks at who in the United States is moving out of the labour force.
• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer considers what might happen to Venezuelan assets in the case of a default, noting British law which might be relevant and looking at the question of whether or not Venezuela's creditors could seize Citgo.
• Savage Minds features a blog post from Ritu Gairola Khanduri, talking about the importance of cartoons in India.
• Towleroad argues that trans actor Janet Mock should be considered an icon.
• The Volokh Conspiracy notes why bakers can't be forced to take orders for anti-gay cakes.


• Window on Eurasia notes regressive Russian attitudes towards Ukraine, and looks at how Russia is rejecting European legal norms.