[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO notes the TTC proposal to remove some streetcar stops.


• Discover's D-Brief suggests that one reason humans are physically weaker than other primates is because we sacrificed physical strength to support our brain instead.


• The Dragon's Tales links to a paper suggesting Earth has much more carbon and water sequestered inside than expected.


• Geocurrents notes that estimates on the size of various economies, including Nigeria and Saudi Arabia, often vary quite widely even between years.


• The Inkfish blog notes that the Humboldt squid can apparently radically slow down its metabolism when it hangs out in oxygen-poor waters.


• Joe. My. God. notes that continuing improvements in HIV/AIDS mortality have led a Vancouver hospital to shut down its dedicated ward for patients.


• Language Log shares a photo explaining how an Arabic word on a sign in Iraqi Kurdistan as badly mistranslated.
  
• Lawyers, Guns and Money discusses misogyny and gun control after the Rodger shooting.


• The Planetary Society Blog announces that the parent organization supports the NASA proposal to capture an asteroid into lunar orbit, with qualifications (how much will it cost?).


• Towleroad notes that in Ghana's capital of Accra, a mob in a Muslim neighbourhood lynched a gay man and began looking for his partner.


• Window on Eurasia notes the growing list of travel restrictions on Russian citizens imposed by the Russian government and argues anti-Semitism is a bigger threat in Russia than in Ukraine.