[PHOTO] Golden city, Yonge at Wellesley

[BLOG] Some Thursday links

• Centauri Dreams considers, among other things, studies of Alpha Centauri.


• D-Brief talks about the unexpected chill of Venus' poles.


• The Dragon's Tales shares a photo of the San Francisco shoreline.


• Far Outliers notes the rare achievements of Michael the Brave.


• Joe. My. God. notes the recent finding by an American court that transgendered students are protected.


• The LRB Blog reports on the nuitards.


• Marginal Revolution notes some of the singular failure of the Brazilian economy over the past century.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer wonders why some people apparently call Russia and North Korea the 51st states.


• pollotenchegg maps election results onto declared language in Ukraine.


• Savage Minds starts a series on decolonizing anthropology.


• Torontoist celebrates the tenth anniversary of Type Books.


• Transit Toronto notes upcoming repairs to Ossington.


• Window on Eurasia reports on Russian fears that the Russian economy might be doomed to stagnate.

[NEWS] Some Thursday links

• Bloomberg reports on anti-foreigner rioting in Zambia, looks at the effect of declining Chinese tourist numbers on malls in Hong Kong, and reports on Russia's policies towards Europe.


• MacLean's notes that PEI has raised the HST to 15%.


• Open Democracy explains what it means to say Karabakh rules Armenia.


• Universe Today suggests the sun might have eaten a super-Earth interior to Mercury early in the solar system's history, and reports on the strange alignments of multiple supermassive black holes.