• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer is concerned with Trump: what would happen if a terrorist attack occurred under his rule, would he actually be able to save money from changing foreign basing, do terrorist attacks help him in the polls?
• Towleroad notes the advent of marriage equality in Greenland.
• Window on Eurasia notes legal challenges to ( Read more... )

• blogTO notes the development of a new shopping mall in Toronto's Yorkville neighbourhood.
• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper examining the ability of the James Webb telescope to detect exoplanet transits.
• Joe. My. God. notes a breakthrough for GLBT rights protesters in Seoul.
• Language Log notes Google's localization in Kazakh and observes Erdogan's ( Read more... )

The position of the Gagauz, a rare Orthodox Christian Turkic nation concentrated in the south of Moldova. I just wish that I knew more about them--their origins, the process of consolidation, their current dynamics--than what's in the above linked Wikipedia article.