[BLOG] Some Monday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Bad Astronomy's Phil Plait does explain the question of whether or not the Moon is a planet.


• blogTO notes that the old Kodak lands on Eglinton will be repurposed for mass transit and observes that Stollery's at Yonge and Bloor is already being demolished.


• Crooked Timber notes, looking back in American history, that people who have accused others of playing the "race card" are actually overlooking serious grievances.


• The Dragon's Gaze notes Kepler's detection of more than twenty thousand exoplanet signals and notes a new method for estimating the mass and age of stars with transiting planets.


• Geocurrents notes that the site is being suspended, hopefully temporarily.


• Joe. My. God. notes that Minneapolis' Roman Catholic archdiocese has declared bankruptcy, putting compensation to victims of clerical sexual abuse in jeopardy.


• Marginal Revolution argues that a majority of American public school students are not in poverty, at least not if we go by the barometer of free lunches.


• The Numerati's Stephen Baker argues in favour of the virtues of unregulated hate speech.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer notes that the Nicaragua canal is already seeing a course adjustment.


• Registan notes that Putin's Russia is loved by proponents of the men's rights movement.


• Towleroad profiles out star Alan Cumming.


• Transit Toronto notes that consultations for the Scaroborough subway extension are imminent.


• Window on Eurasia notes China's interest in supplying nuclear fuel to central and eastern Europe and observes the disintegration of the old German churches of Kaliningrad.