[BLOG] Some Monday links

[rfmcdonald]

• James Bow reflects on Toronto regional mass transit in the aftermath of the ice storm, and on the events of his life.


• The Dragon's Tales notes a proposal for a 550 kilogram probe to Uranus that could make the trip in six years via electric sail and do good science, and links to a paper taking a look at the ecological consequences of urban living in medieval Cambodia.


• Far Outliers quotes from Keith Lowe's Savage Continent about how the Second World War included many smaller regional wars.


• Geocurrents profiles the ongoing (but not very successful) movement for autonomy in the French region of Brittany.


• Joe. My. God. and Towleroad both note that the Russian Orthodox Church has called for a referendum in Russia on criminalizing gay sex.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money links to a report on a crackdown on striking Cambodian garment workers and remarks on a 1986 paper talking about "sissy boy syndrome".


• Matthew Ingram shares excerpts from an issue of The Globe published in 1864. What an interesting look at period history they provide!


• Torontoist's Kevin Plummer describes the story of Kathleen Boyle, a young woman 17 years old who surprised Toronto in 1930 when she took part in a bank robbery.


• Towleroad reports on a study that gay men, because they have processed more, tend to make better bosses than their straight counterparts.


• Window on Eurasia debunks the idea of Russian flight in Tatarstan, wonders if Russian internal migrants coming to the metropole from its Asian and northern frontier will transform Russian politics, and notes the role played by Chechen leader Dzhokar Dudayev in protecting Estonia from Soviet wrath in 1990-1991.