[BLOG] Some Friday links

[rfmcdonald]

• BlogTO highlights a new photography exhibition at Ryerson University that I really should see.


• Centauri Dreams takes a look at the idea of subsurface biospheres on exoplanets.


• Crooked Timber's Belle Waring shares pictures from the ongoing protests in Ukraine and starts a debate.


• The Dragon's Tales notes a new model of the evolutions of the Sun and the Earth's atmosphere that suggests Earth will face a runaway greenhouse in 1.5 billion years, rather later than previously expected.


• Far Outliers highlights the ongoing Berber awakening in north Africa.


• Language Log tackles the Jamaican-sounding remarks of Rob Ford and finds them credible.


• The Map Room's Jonathan Crowe links to a wonderful New Yorker article on maps in literature.


• Marginal Revolution notes a new paper arguing that coal power was essential for urban growth.


• Supernova Condensate quotes Karl Popper about inductive reasoning.


• Torontoist notes the plans for a new proposed park to be built at Ontario Place.


• Towleroad remarks on the recent suicide of an Azerbaijani gay rights activist and notes the doubling of a bounty offered by Hong Kong billionaire to any man who would marry his lesbian--and coupled--daughter.


• Window on Eurasia notes the new reading list for Kremlin officials.