[BLOG] Some Friday links

[rfmcdonald]

• The Big Picture shares photos of the falling shoreline of the Dead Sea.


• blogTO shows the heritage buildings that have survived condo development at Yonge and St. Joseph.


• Crooked Timber wonders at the threat of anti-vaccination people.


• The Dragon's Gaze notes that red dwarfs might help produce abiotic atmospheric oxygen comparable to Earth on some worlds and suggests that certain low-mass stars which produce abundant extreme ultraviolet radiation may dessicate their potentially habitable worlds.


• The Dragon's Tales links to a paper examining the ancient likely shorelines of Mars.


• Joe. My. God. notes a Christian activist's takeover of the microphone at a Muslim event in Texas.


• Language Hat links to a paper that finds weak links between language and genetic history.


• Marginal Revolution notes a robot-run hotel in Japan and suggests Sweden is overrated.


• Spacing calls for much-improved mass transit in Halifax.


• Torontoist wonders about possible improvements in snow removal.


• Towleroad notes a legal challenge mounted by an American dismissed for anti-gay attitudes.


• The Volokh Conspiracy notes that Herbert Hoover's vice-president, Charles Curtis, was an American Indian.


• Window on Eurasia looks at Russia's turn to fascism and examines how Russian Internet trolls are recruited by the state.