[BLOG] Some Thursday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO chronicles the time when Toronto bus transit went as far as Niagara Falls.


• The Burgh Diaspora's Jim Russell notes that falling global mobility is combining with low fertility rates to produce labour shortages.


• Centauri Dreams' Paul Gilster, thinking of pulsar planets, starts a discussion about science fiction set in extreme environments.


• The Dragon's Gaze notes the complexity of discovering exoplanets around young--hence very active--stars.


• The Dragon's Tales, meanwhile, observes evidence that the Indus Valley civilization collapsed because of climate change.


• Far Outliers observes the speed with which German and Austro-Hungarian fronts collapsed in 1918 and comments on American respect for their German counterparts in the First World War.


• Marginal Revolution notes a paper claiming that immigration doesn't undermine public support for welfare states.


• Livejournal's pollotenchegg maps the distributions of Russians and Crimean Tatars in that autonomous--and contested?--Ukrainian peninsula.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer thinks that, though things are bad in Venezuela, they aren't nearly as bad as one database on democracy claims.


• Peter Rukavina shares the story of how much he cost the Prince Edward Island health system and how he found out.


• Towleroad goes into greater detail about the changes in royal nomenclature forced by same-sex marriage.