[BLOG] Some Monday linls

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO notes the five longest TTC routes in Toronto.


• The Dragon's Gaze notes evidence that objects detected by Kepler are gravitationally bound to their parent stars.


• The Dragon's Tales tracks the migrations of raccoons and their kind from North to South America, and notes that Pacific Island nations are hoping to find places they can evacuate their populations to.


• Joe. My. God. notes that the computer of the anti-gay papal nuncio to the Dominican Republic has been found to be filled with child porn, and observes apparent success in treating Ebola with HIV medications.


• Language Log looks at gendered pronoun usage on Facebook.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes depression.


• Marginal Revolution links to an article examining the lives of lightning survivors.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer looks at Russian-Ukrainian energy wars and isn't hopeful for Ukraine.


• The Russian Demographics Blog notes war-related mortality patterns in Iraq.


• Savage Minds notes that anthropologists at the University of Chicago have played a leading role in getting that university to disengage from its Confucius Institute.


• Torontoist notes how 1971 thinkers thought Toronto could be made more pleasant.


• Towleroad considers if Britney Spears is a proper gay icon.


• Window on Eurasia suggests the death of civic nationalism in Russia, notes the refugees in Ukraine displaced from the Donbas, suggests that there is sympathy in Tatarstan from Crimean Tatars, looks at Russian official support for the far right worldwide, and suggests that Eurasianism and Dugin are of falling importance.