[BLOG] Some Monday links

[rfmcdonald]

• 80 Beats reports on a proposal to protect New Orleans from risk of inundation by restoring the marshlands that once provided a natural buffer for the metropolis against the ocean.


• Anders Sandberg argues against the surgical sterilization of the transgendered on the grounds that it's not only intrusive, it's linked to effort to enforce a gender binary that doesn't exist.


• blogTO celebrates the 35th anniversary of the Eaton Centre with photos and videos from throughout its long history.


• The Burgh Diaspora discusses the appeal of foreignness--or out-of-stateness--on prospective migrants' attractiveness to natives, starting from Texas.


• Centauri Dreams reports that Vesta, unlike the Moon, has no permanently shadowed craters where water ice could exist on the surface on account of its pronounced tilt. Ices would exist below the surface, rather.


• Language Hat links to a contentious article claiming that no such thing as an Arabic language exists, but rather regional Arabic standards, inspiring an interesting debate about the dynamics of language in the Arab world.


• Progressive Download's John Farrell traces the origins of hockey in Montréal, referring to an Adam Gopnik essay suggesting the sport took off as a product of an alliance of Irish Catholics and French Canadians against Anglo-Scottish Protestants.