[BLOG] Some Monday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO notes that the cash-strapped CBC may be forced to sell its iconic downtown Toronto headquarters.


• James Bow reflects on winter in Kitchener-Waterloo.


• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper studying the relationship between exoplanets and circumstellar dust discs.


• The Dragon's Tales links to a simulation of the polar atmosphere of Venus and notes concerns that India's Hindustan Aeronautics might not be able to manufacture French Rafale fighters under contract.


• Far Outliers notes Madeleine Albright's incomprehension of Cambodia's late 1990s struggles and looks at the way the country lags its neighbours.


• The Frailest Thing notes how human traffic errors reveal we're not quite up to some of the tasks we'd like.


• Joe. My. God. notes that Finland's president has signed a marriage bill into existence.


• Languages of the World notes the problem of where the homeland of the Indo-Europeans was located.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the often-ignored pattern of lynching Mexicans in the United States.


• Marginal Revolution notes (1, 2) the problems of human beings with algorithmic, computer-driven planning.


• Otto Pohl notes how Germans in Kyrgyzstan were forced into labour battalions.


• pollotenchegg looks at demographic indicators in Ukraine over the past year, noting a collapse in the east.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer looks at deep history, looking at the involvement of war in state-building in Africa and noting the historically recent rise of inequality in Latin America.


• Window on Eurasia looks at one Russian's proposal to give a Ukrainian church self-government, notes Russia's inability to serve as a mentor to China, and looks at rural depopulation in the North Caucasus and South Russia.