[BLOG] Some Sunday links

[rfmcdonald]

• BlogTO links to an interesting app-enabled map showing where people run in Toronto (or, at least, where people run in Toronto using apps to chronicle their routes).


• The Dragon's Gaze notes a paper examining the role of dust in protoplanetary disks.


• Geocurrents' Martin Lewis wonders why the Circassians, displaced a century and a half ago from the Caucasian territory where Russia is no holding the Olympics, haven't gotten any media coverage of their cause.


• Language Hat comments upon a video recording of a student's recital of Cantonese poetry that has gone viral.


• Language Log's Victor Mair wonders what official status Cantonese has in Hong Kong, facing challenges from Putonghua as well as from a writing system that doesn't record the city's main spoken language.


• The casual racism faced by players of college sports in the United States is discussed at Lawyers, Guns and Money.


• Marginal Revolution argues that emerging markets facing economic issues should look at their own domestic scenes and not blame global turbulence.


• At Personal Reflections, Jim Belshaw writing about his Australian region of New England makes the point that local histories should also include their global origins.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer argues that the New York accent is mostly dead.


• At Savage Minds, Jane Eva Baxter talks about the ways in which prehistoric artifacts--like the ancient footprints recently discovered in Britain--are used, and misused, in ways that reflect our biases. (Seeing groups of footprints as product of family migrations, for instance.)


• Supernova Condensate marvels at the superb imaging of Luhman 16B.


• Window on Eurasia notes one man's arguments that authentic federalism would suit Ukraine well.


• Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell notes in passing how Siberia changed from being exciting frontier to grim prison-camp in the popular imagination.