[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• The Big Picture shares images of Syrian Kurdish refugees flooding into Turkey.


• blogTO quite likes the new visitor centre at Fort York.


• James Bow quite liked the Word on the Street festival in the Albertan city of Lethbridge.


• Crooked Timber suggests that French economist Thomas Piketty, with his writings on inequality, has unusually drawing power.


• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper proposing new methods for studying the atmospheres of gas giant exoplanets.


• The Dragon's Tales notes that scientists have just now developed a new, more efficient method of photosynthesis.


• Joe. My. God. notes that, according to the US Census, a half-million people have entered same-sex marriages.


• Languages of the World's Asya Perelstvaig considers a particular post-1918 orthography reform of the Russian language.


• pollotenchegg considers the institutions Crimean Tatars trust, and not.


• Savage Minds considers the complexities of ethnographic writing.


• Spacing Toronto's John Lorinc considers overpolicing in Toronto.


• Torontoist notes that a copy of Shakespeare's First Folio will be on display at the University of Toronto.


• The Volokh Conspiracy is skeptical of the good sense in pretending Islam is not a religion.