[BLOG] Some Thursday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO notes the expansion of condo development south of Yonge and Eglinton.


• Centauri Dreams blogs about the exciting continuing approach of Dawn to Ceres.


• The Dragon's Gaze looks at the system of HD 69830, with three Neptune-mass planets and a dense asteroid belt.


• The Dragon's Tales links to a paper looking at French government surveillance of global communications networks.


• The Everyday Sociology Blog considers whether globalization is making the world subjectively smaller or larger.


• Joe. My. God. notes the refusal of a Michigan doctor to treat the child of a lesbian couple.


• Language Hat and Languages of the World react to a recent study claiming DNA evidence suggests the spread of Indo-European languages is connected to mass migrations.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at the problems of Greece with and in the Eurozone.


• The Planetary Society Blog describes an amateur's ingenious new map of Europa.


• The Power and the Money links to a paper suggesting that male advantage in Africa as a result of colonialism, at least judging by Uganda, was brief.


• Spacing Toronto shows some supposed houses that are actually disguised electricity transformers.


• Torontoist shares a list of some of this year's visitors at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival.


• Window on Eurasia speculates about the influence of Admiral Kolchak's proto-fascism on modern Russia and argues that Russia does not want a Transdniestria-style enclave in Ukraine's Donbas.