Dec 28, 2015 13:43
- blogTO looks at Toronto's north/south-divided streets.
- The Dragon's Gaze suggests that there might be lightning in protoplanetary disks.
- The Dragon's Tales considers way to make gasoline a biofuel.
- Far Outliers notes the breakdown of interethnic relations in the late Soviet South Caucasus into war.
- Joe. My. God. let George Takei explain why he stayed in the closet.
- Language Hat likes the poetry of Pasternak.
- Language Log notes a bizarre clip from 1930s New York City featuring a boy scout speaking Cantonese.
- Marginal Revolution links to a paper suggesting that economists overlooked the rise of the 1% because of sampling issues and argues that power couples worsen economic inequality.
- Cheri Lucas Rowlands shares photos from Paris in December.
- The Russian Demographics Blog notes unhelpful reactions to the decline of Russian as a language of wider communication.
- Window on Eurasia notes turbulence in the Russian Orthodox Church (1, 2) and suggests the Donbas is likely to evolve into a second Chechnya.
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