[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO's Derek Flack posts photos of beach scenes in Toronto dating back a century or more.


• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly offers ten tips for tourists visiting New York City.


• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper suggesting that life on planets can influence the effective size of the circumstellar habitable zone, expanding it inwards or outwards.


• The Dragon's Tales links to an Economist article arguing that the English language has become the common language of the European Union's citizens.


• Eastern Approaches comments on the life of Polish general Wojciech Jaruzelski.


• A Fistful of Euros' PO Neill notes that the European Monetary System predating the Euro was associated with booms and busts in Ireland, among other countries.


• Kieran Healy notes a study suggesting that the success or not of crowdfunding and other online collaborations is strongly determined by whether or not people make initial large contributions.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money comments on the ethics of immigration and border control.


• At the Planetary Science Blog, Joseph O'Rourke summarizes a paper suggesting it's reasonably likely that Pluto has plate tectonics and subsurface oceans, derived from the impact that created its binary partner Charon.


• pollotenchegg maps turnout in the recent Ukrainian election.


• Strange Maps notes that the Belgian province of Liège looks in outline quite a lot like Belgium.


• Torontoist notes that the policies of the Progressive Conservatives under Tim Hudak would bode ill for Toronto if they won the upcoming election.


• Window on Eurasia links to an author who predicts only hard and soft authoritarianism for Russia.