[BLOG] Some Friday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO wonders, in the aftermath of companies confiscating bicycles parked on city property, if Toronto should clearly mark off public and private space on its streets.


• Centauri Dreams studies news that the Stardust probe may have captured bits of the interstellar medium.


• The Dragon's Gaze reports that sun-like Alpha Centauri A and B can both support planets in stable Earth-like orbits.


• The Dragon's Tales notes the impact of changing patterns of snowfall on Arctic ice.


• Eastern Approaches studies Balkan volunteers in wars abroad, both that of Albanians in the Middle East and of Serbs for Russia in Ukraine.


• Far Outliers looks at Japan's farmer-soldiers on the late 19th century Hokkaido frontier.


• Spacing Toronto favourably reviews the new psychogeography-themed book Unruly Places.


• Understanding Society points to the massive success of a comparative statistical analysis of historical Eurasian populations.


• Window on Eurasia links to a photo essay of an empty post-Olympics Sochi.


• Writing Through the Fog's Cheri Lucas Rowlands argues that modern social media hinders memoir writing, by making it too easy to publish quickly.


• Wonkman points out that the problem with subtle homoeroticism in modern popular culture is that, well, it doesn't need to be subtle any more. What needs to be hidden?