[BLOG] Some Thursday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO's Chris Bateman starts a discussion as to what should be done with the Gardiner Expressway.


• Centauri Dreams takes a look at solar system navigation from the radio signals of pulsars.


• The Dragon's Tales points to a paper suggesting ways that astronomers could resolve planets in habitable-zone orbits orbiting nearby Sun-like stars, like Alpha Centauri A and B.


• Daniel Drezner considers trust in the state, particularly in the context of PRISM and the surveillance of Internet communications by the American government. (Trust does not seem warranted.)


• Eastern Approaches notes that the intersection of politics with the modernization of Poland's energy infrastructure does bad things there.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer takes a look at political procedure in the Colombian congress.


• At The Search, Leslie Johnston takes a look at pre-Internet online communities, like BBSes and Compuserve and Usenet.


• Technosociology's Zeynep Tukefci writes about how Gezi Park's demonstrators have organized themselves.


• Window on Eurasia notes polls suggesting that Georgians, despite the more recent wars, are less worried by challenges to their country's territorial integrity than Azerbaijanis.


• Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell confirms that David Goodhart is not to be trusted when he talks about immigration, not at all.