[BLOG] Some Thursday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO notes Ryerson University's new building on Church Street.


• The Dragon's Gaze links to one paper examining comet-like exoplanets and links to another tracking two families of exocomets in the Beta Pictoris system.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the intelligence of raccoons.


• Steve Munro supports Olivia Chow as the best transit candidate.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer notes that oil prices might remain relatively low for a while.


• Spacing Toronto's John Lorinc defends strategic voting in Toronto.


• The Toronto Standard and blogTO both like candidate Ari Goldkind's transit plan.


• Towleroad notes pop star Ariana Grande dropped Catholicism because of hostility towards gay people like her brother.


• Window on Eurasia notes Ukrainians overwhelmingly believe there's a war with Russia while Russians disagree, suggests the benefit of a new Russian history that tracks the people along with the state.


• Zero Geography's Mark Graham announces a new project of his studying global digital development.