[PHOTO] Ziggurat on Bathurst Street

Approaching the BStreets condo complex on Bathurst just south of Bloor Street West from the south, the tiered white levels evoked for me the structure of the Mesopotamian ziggurat.

[BLOG] Some Friday links

• blogTO notes that John Tory supports the decriminalization of marijuana.


• The Dragon's Gaze considers if there might be a hot Jupiter orbiting a pulsating star.


• The Dragon's Tales wonders if multicellularity in cyanobacteria three billion years ago helped drive the Great Oxidation Event.


• Far Outliers notes the 1878 introduction of football to Burma.


• A Fistful of Euros notes that Europe is muddling through in the Mediterranean versus migrants and observes that even the optimistic scenarios for economic growth in Greece are dire.


• The Frailest Thing considers the idea of a technological history of modernity.


• Language Log notes an example of multiscript graffiti in Berlin.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes how the Confederate cause won the Civil War despite losing the battles.


• Marginal Revolution argues that default will do nothing to make the underlying issues of Greece business-wise better.


• The Planetary Society Blog looks at the intriguing geology of Ceres.


• Peter Rukavina shows the Raspberry Pi computer he built into a Red Rocket tea tin.


• The Russian Demographics Blog links to a paper studying Russian patriarchy and misogyny in public health.


• Spacing Toronto looks at the genesis of the Bloor Viaduct's Luminous Veil.


• Towleroad examines the Texan pastor who threatened to set himself on fire over same-sex marriage.


• Une heure de peine celebrates its eighth birthday.


• The Volokh Conspiracy reacts to the Michael Oren controversy over American ties with Israel.


• Window on Eurasia warns that Putin's system in Chechnya is not viable, predicts a worsening of the Russian HIV/AIDS epidemic, and notes that Jewish emigration from Russia has taken off again.