[BLOG] Some Thursday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO shares photos of Toronto in the 1970s and 1980s, a time when the downtown was dominated by ... parking lots.


• Centauri Dreams hopes that the 2030s will be the decade when Europa (and its sibling moons like Ganymede) get explored.


• Eastern Approaches guides readers through the competing Russian and Ukrainian iconographies of eastern Ukraine.


• Hunting Monsters noted that yesterday was the 60th anniversary of the fall of Dien Bien Phu to Vietnamese rebels.


• Language Hat draws from Herta Muller's observation for the Romanian language's sexual obscenities.


• Marginal Revolution's Tyler Cowen notes that income in Brooklyn fell slightly, suggesting that gentrification isn't driving people out.


• The Planetary Society Blog's Casey Dreier celebrates the restoration of 170 million dollars in funding to NASA's planetary science programs.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer suggests that Panama hasn't revealed the bank accounts of potentially corrupt Venezuelan officials because it doesn't want to scare off Venezuelans generally.


• Peter Rukavina and Van Waffle both reflect on yesterday's death of Canadian author Farley Mowat.


• The Russian Demographics blog reflects on Ukraine's war losses.


• Towleroad notes a documentary exploring the gay accent.


• Window on Eurasia notes that some Russians would like to annex southern Ukraine, so as to be able to acquire the Moldovan enclave of Transnistria.