[BLOG] Some Monday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO has a visual history of the Toronto Islands up.


• Centauri Dreams looks at GU Piscium b and Beta Pictoris b.


• The Dragon's Tales links to a paper examining two concepts for theoretical nuclear fusion-fueled space drives, one using additional coolant and one not.


• Eastern Approaches examines the disastrous floods in the former Yugoslavia.


• Joe. My. God. reports on a study suggesting church attendance is exaggerated by traditional self-reporting methods.


• Language Log notes the success in the digitization of ancient Persian manuscripts, including of a bilingual Persian/Gujarati Zoroastrian text.


• Registan notes the influence of the Internet and social media in reshaping Islam in Uzbekistan.


• Savage Minds features a post by Nick Seaver talking about the ways in which anthropology can get involved with computer-mediated processes, like the algorithms which recommend tunes.


• Towleroad examines Dolly Parton as a gay icon.


• Window on Eurasia notes Russian academic disinterest in Ukrainian culture and covers the Crimean Tatars' commemoration of their deportation in the context of Russian occupation.