[BLOG] Some Thursday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO rates the top ten buildings built in Toronto over the past fifteen years.


• Centauri Dreams looks at some of Kepler's candidate exo-Earths.


• The Cranky Sociologists applaud Howard Becker, sociologist of deviance.


• Joe. My. God. notes an Italian court's recognition of the citizenship of a foreign-born child of a same-sex Italian couple.


• Language Hat notes a site promoting the Aborigine language of Yugambeh.


• Language Log studies the problems of translating art language from Chinese to English.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money celebrates Kirby Delauter.


• Personal Reflections reflects on upcoming elections in Queensland.


• Peter Rukavina shares a link tracking electricity production and consumption on Prince Edward Island.


• The Russian Demographics Blog maps the origin of Russian soldiers killed in the fighting in Ukraine.


• Spacing Toronto looks at how, one day in Toronto, one railroad bridge was swapped with another.


• Towleroad notes how a Texan man still hasn't been charged with the murder of a lesbian couple including his own daughter after almost a year, and looks at a hate crime in Russia.


• The Volokh Conspiracy notes the visit of El Sisi to a Coptic Christmas mass, the first time any Egyptian president made this visit.


• Window on Eurasia suggests Russian policy towards Ukraine won't change until Russia changes, reports certain statistics from the periphery of Russia, and looks at the role of Russian media in encouraging ethnic violence.