[BLOG] Some Sunday links

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• blogTO ranks the five busiest subway stations in Toronto.


• Centauri Dreams notes the idea of using charged particle beams to propel sails.


• Crooked Timber's John Quiggin notes how some American conservatives blame Ebola on DDT bans.


• The Dragon's Gaze notes that exoplanet Kepler 91b, detected by its eclipses of the sun, has been confirmed through radial velocity measurements.


• The Dragon's Tale suggests that a mysterious event reported in 775 CE around Eurasia may have been a cometary impact.


• The Frailest Thing's Michael Sacasas considers if future shock, once a generational thing, may now be coming more quickly than that.


• Joe. My. God. notes the decline of the American bathhouse, reports on a Spanish legislator who blames the national debt on same-sex marriage, and observes an anti-HIV organization's campaign against PReP.


• Languages of the World's Asya Perelstvaig examines the origins of Yiddish.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money approves of Bulgarians repainting Soviet war monuments in superheros.


• Marginal Revolution links to a paper suggesting that the Unied States' economic problems began long before 2008.


• Otto Pohl reports from Ghana, in the middle of economic and currency collapse.


• The Planetary Society Blog's Emily Lakdawalla notes that the Rosetta spacecraft is current scouting a landing site for its Philae landing on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.


• Torontoist describes how Arnold Palmer got his start at the Canadian Open.


• Towleroad argues that out actor John Barrowman is a gay icon, and suggests that an anti-gay pogrom in Uganda may not have happened.


• The Volokh Conspiracy notes that today is the 75th anniversary of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact that divided northeastern Europe up between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union.


• Window on Eurasia suggests that Russia's moves in Ukraine have harmed its Asian interests vis-a-vis China and argues that recent events have consolidated support for Ukrainian statehood.