[BLOG] Some Sunday links

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• Bad Astronomy reports on the astounding scientific illiteracy of Trump advisor Anthony Scaramucci.
• blogTO compiles a list of the best tobagganing hills in Toronto.
• Citizen Science Salon looks at what we can do in the redwood forests.
• The Dragon's Gaze notes a gap in the disk of TW Hydrae.
• Imageo notes that 2016 is the warmest year in the records.
• Joe. My. God. notes that a pride parade protected by police went off in Montenegro.
• Language Hat shares the story of Lazer Lederhendler, a son of Holocaust survivors in Montréal who became one of the leading translators into English of Québec literature.
• Language Log looks at the distant origins of Japanese terms for "dog."
• Marginal Revolution notes the rising popularity of Vladimir Putin on the American right.
• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer looks at the links between Russia and the "Calexit" movement.
• The Volokh Conspiracy celebrates Saturnalia.
• Window on Eurasia looks at Russia's use of genetics to disentangle the Tatar peoples and argues that the definition of Russians and Ukrainians as fraternal is dangerous to the latter.