[BLOG] Some Thursday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO points out a map--well-grounded, this time--by a pro-Transit City group that doesn't want all the money put to subways.


• Bruce Sterling links, at Beyond the Beyond, to a promo video by fashion deisgners Rodarte, combining their distressed fabrics with the Space X experimental labs.


• Centauri Dreams also reports on the anomalous heat generation on Enceladus, suggesting that this makes the case for oceans on that Saturn moon all the more likely.


• The Dragon's Tales reports on the various stealth aircraft projects around the world.


• Daniel Drezner engages with the question, newly energized by the revelations surrounding the interactions and support lent by prominent political scientists and others when Gaddafi seemed a reformist, and what the academy's relationship with power should be.


• Eastern Approaches reports on the Estonian elections, which kept the free-market Reform Party in power.


• GNXP notes DNA studies suggesting that the most diverse human populations are in southern Africa, not eastern Africa, suggesting either that southern Africa is where our species evolved or that greater diversity in eastern Africa was overwhelmed by recent migrations.


• Language Hat takes a look at language in Libya, where the Arabic language is well-ensconced but notable language minorities remain.


• Language Log has at Christopher Hitchens for his tendentiousness re: the usage of "brutalizes". Who knew he was so retro?


• Lawyers, Guns and Money's Scott Lemieux wonders when Instapundit Glenn Reynolds is going to note that, actually, all that it took was for anti-gay policies to be removed and campuses did see ROTC again.


• Slap Upside the Head is thoroughly unimpressed with Mayor Ford and Queers Against Israeli Apartheid, inasmuch as their feud is threatening city funding of Toronto pride.


• Spacing Toronto's Jessica Lemieux takes a look at soil remediation in formerly industrial areas of Toronto.


• Torontoist's reports on the straight students in a Toronto school's gay-straight alliance.


• Towleroad's Andrew Belonsky notes Grindr's expansion to Android, wondering about the potential for spontaneous contacts the software offers based on shared interests.