[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO notes that Stollery's at Yonge and Bloor could be demolished soon.


• Centauri Dreams notes that gyrochronology--using a star's spin rate to calculate its age--works.


• The Dragon's Gaze looks at the spacing of planets in exosystems.


• The Dragon's Tales notes that dogs crossed into the Americas only ten thousand years ago.


• Joe. My. God. notes how Europeans overestimate the size of their Muslim populations.


• Lanugage Hat considers the question of Timur's languages.


• The Planetary Society Blog explores the ESA's upcoming JUICE probe to Europa.


• Otto Pohl finds links between Soviet mistreatment of ethnic Germans and South African apartheid.


• The Russian Demographics Blog notes that Chinese are moving en masse to Africa, not Siberia.


• Towleroad shares video of a crowd bursting into singing John Lennon's "Imagine" at the recent Paris march.


• Transit Toronto notes the toll of extreme cold on streetcars.


• The Volokh Conspiracy notes that Pride and Prejudice recently got cited in the US Supreme Court.


• Whatever's John Scalzi reflects on a cat and his box.


• Window on Eurasia reflects on the vissicitudes of Karelian identity, ethnic and political, in Russia.


• The Financial Times' World blog notes that reconciliation is still far off in the former Yugoslavia.