[BLOG] Some Thursday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO notes that some Toronto-area Starbucks will now feature wine and beer options.


• Gerry Canavan has his own massive post of links.
  
• Centauri Dreams looks at the promise of a NASA mission to Europa.


• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper suggesting that compact exoplanetary systems are common around red dwarf stars.


• The Dragon's Tales reports on an extinct South American rodent, Josephoartigasia monesi, that used its giant teeth as elephants used their tusks.


• Joe. My. God. notes that the Harlem home of Neil Patrick Harris and his husband David Burtka has been profiled by Architectural Digest.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes an unintentionally hilarious 1914 book aiming to curtail the spread of lesbianism.


• The Planetary Society Blog shares pictures from the Indian Mars probe featuring rare views of that world's moon Deimos and shares the New Horizons probe's first pictures of Pluto.


• Peter Rukavina talks about podcasts.


• Spacing Toronto shares descriptions of the fallout shelters built into a Toronto subdivision's homes.


• Strange Maps notes the many maps of the world of The Man in the High Castle.


• Torontoist looks at the local measles outbreak.


• Towleroad notes a Russian group that plans to out teachers.


• Window on Eurasia argues that arming Ukraine would help stabilize the situation and suggests there are alternatives to Putin.