[BLOG] Some Monday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO shares the story of the first LCBOs opened in Toronto after Prohibition. The procedures involved were rather bureaucratic.


• The Dragon's Tales links to a paper that tries to answer the question of whether Titan's different seas and lakes are connected by subsurface aquifers.


• Languages of the World's Asya Perelstvaig recounts the history of Russians in the San Francisco area.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money engages with David Graeber's left-wing critique of Thomas Piketty.


• Marginal Revolution's Tyler Cowen doesn't like Scottish separatism.


• James Nicoll of More Words, Deeper Hole finds Donald Moffitt's late 1970s novel The Jupiter Theft somewhat better than he feared.


• Personal Reflection's Jim Belshaw explores (1, 2) the consequences of changes to funding in Australian higher education.


• Peter Rukavina shares an excerpt from a typeset edition of Milton Acorn's "Poem for the Astronauts".


• Window on Eurasia notes that Russian moves against Belarus or Kazakhstan are still possible if either country disappoints, and wonders if the Eurasian Economic Union will encourage Armenia to promote Karabakh independence rather than to seek to annex it.


• Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell criticizes economists who work without reference to facts.