[BLOG] Some Friday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO reports on a very futuristic and upscale condo planned to be built in North York.


• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper arguing that Kepler-93b is likely a super-Earth, not a mini-Neptune.


• The Dragon's Tales looks at a spectrographic study of part of Mars' Valles Marineris.


• Joe. My. God. notes that a business district in Fire Island is going up for sale at an unexpectedly low price.


• Language Log notes the declining usage of the definite article "the" and increasing use of the indefinite "a".


• Lawyers, Guns and Money calculates how much money Yale spent on educating The Great Gatsby's racist boor Tom Buchanan.


• Marginal Revolution notes a 1991 paper suggesting international terrorism is rare because it is costly.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer notes that American oil exports to Mexico aren't noteworthy, being relatively low-volume and of fuel Mexico can't manufacture.


• Savage Minds follows an anthropologist in Bulgaria as she reacts to the death of one of her informants.


• Torontoist and blogTO both report on the three new charges of sexual assault brought against Jian Ghomeshi.


• Towleroad has a funny video of gay couples reading Grindr exchanges to each other.


• Window on Eurasia notes Estonian criticism of Russian assimilation of Finno-Ugric minorities, and predicts crisis in the North Caucasus.