[BLOG] Some Monday links

[rfmcdonald]

• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly describes the collapse of an online community she quite liked.


• Cody Delistraty links to his article in The Atlantic about the benefits of multilingualism.


• The Everyday Sociology Blog considers the numbers and implications of low-wage earners.


• The Frailest Things' Michael Sacasas links to articles about big data, suggesting ways in which it undermines our sense of self-control.


• Geocurrents considers alternate history maps.


• Marginal Revolution notes that West Germany had high inflation in the 1970s and 1980s.


• Otto Pohl thinks pan-Africanism can start by creating uniform electrical plugs.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer considers alternate histories for Mexico, paying particular attention to the idea of a smaller Mexico after 1848.


• Spacing Toronto's John Lorinc argues John Tory bested Olivia Chow by not being over-specific.


• Torontoist notes the travails of a girl who became an amateur hockey player in the mid-1950s.


• Window on Eurasia considers how Russian liberals could return Crimea, deconstructs the alleged Chinese threat, and notes a startlingly anti-Russian press conference delivered by Belarus' Lukashenko.