[BLOG] Some Thursday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Acts of Minor Treason's Andrew Barton features a photo of an astonishingly long lineup of buses in Ottawa. I thought Dufferin Street could be bad!


• Anthropology.net reports on a huge find of ancient hominin remains in South Africa.


• Bad Astronomy's Phil Plait reports on the new supernova in M82.


• Beyond the Beyond links to an approving review of a book on Internet art.


• The Big Picture has an extended photoessay of the Circassian minority in Sochi, remnant of mid-19th century ethnic cleansing.


• Centauri Dreams examines the study of the circumstellar disk of HD 142527, a distant star that apparently has a protoplanetary belt out 160 AU, far further than the Kuiper belt or any theory of planetary formation.


• The Language Log takes a look at the use of the word "iguana" to denote a shady character, tracing it to Florida and Charlie Crist.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at the migration forced by free-trade agreements.


• Marginal Revolution reports that, to stave off a financial crisis, Argentina has begun limiting online shopping.


• The Planetary Society's Emily Lakdawalla has more on the M82 supernova.


• Supernova Condensate examines the ocean planet and the trope's use in science fiction. If anything, it may be underused!


• At Torontoist, John Barber despairs of a debate on transit in the upcoming Toronto mayoral election.


• Window on Eurasia suggests Russian neo-Nazi violence is becoming focused more against Central Asians than Caucasians.