[BLOG] Some Friday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO notes an organic tea shop and cafe opening in Regent Park.


• Centauri Dreams looks at the mysteries behind Titan's polar weather.


• Crooked Timber discusses the uses of the military in an epidemic like Ebola.


• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper concerned with suggesting how worlds can become super-Earths not gas giants.


• The Dragon's Tales links to an archeological study describing methods for distinguishing between human artifacts and simple rocks.


• The Everyday Sociology Blog examines ways people shame others who use too much water in drought-affected areas like California.


• Joe. My. God. notes the recent study suggesting HIV's origins as a pandemic can be traced to Kinshasa in the 1920s.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money discusses Kissinger's 1976 proposal to invade Cuba in retaliation for Cuban intervention in Angola against South Africa.


• Peter Rukavina describes how he beat a rental car charge for a toll bridge by using his personal geolocation archive to show he was never there.


• Spacing Toronto discusses the lost canopy of the St. Lawrence Market.


• Towleroad notes controversy around the screening of a documentary on gay teen life in Russia in St. Petersburg.


• Window on Eurasia notes refugee inflows into Crimea and refers to an article by a Russian historian describing how Crimea is not historically exclusively Russian.