[BLOG] Some Friday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO profiles classic Toronto convenience store chain Becker's.


• Crooked Timber links to their index of posts on their recent symposium on the ethics of immigration.


• The Dragon's Gaze notes that a simulation of the Gliese 581 system (assuming four planets) shows it's stable over long periods.


• The Dragon's Tales links to a paper suggesting that the distribution of trans-Neptunian objects indicates the existence of two large distant planets.


• Eastern Approaches notes the recent revolution in Abkhazia.


• Geocurrents' Martin Lewis notes that there is scarce evidence of environmental issues triggering Boko Haram in northeastern Nigeria.


• Language Hat hosts a discussion on Elias Muhanna's essay on the translation of Frozen.


• Language Log's Victor Mair lists the long collection of words censored in China on the grounds of their relationship to Tiananmen Square.


• Marginal Revolution notes a recent study suggesting rapidly declining fortunes among young Americans after 2000.


• Savage Minds engages with the potentially colonial concept of the Arctic.


• Window on Eurasia suggests Russia is drawing multiple connections between Ukraine and Syria, and notes the huge contribution of Ukrainians to the defeat of the Nazis in the Second World War.