[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO notes that loads of new streetcars should arrive this year for the TTC.


• The Dragon's Gaze links to one paper examining the impact of colliding stellar winds in a close binary on habitable planets, links to another examining how habitable planets gets their water, and wonders about the insights provided by the HR 8799 planetary system into water delivery.


• The Dragon's Tales links to a paper arguing that Enceladus' subsurface ocean is made of alkaline soda water.


• Joe. My. God. notes a claim by some British scientists that it may be possible, with foreseeable genetic engineering, to create children with two same-sex parents.


• Languages of the World's Asya Perelstvaig looks into what Broca's area of the brain actually means for human language.


• Marginal Revolution notes that the woman-dominated area of health care is a growth area for middle-class employment in the United States.


• Otto Pohl notes that yesterday was the 71st anniversary of the deportation of the Chechens and the Ingush.


• pollotenchegg maps industrial production in Ukraine.


• Will Baird argues at The Power and the Money that the Minsk Accord is crumbling and examines the reasons for Chinese support of Russia.


• Spacing Toronto's John Lorinc worries about corporate sponsorship of ice rinks.


• Torontoist notes that Massey Hall has begun its renovations.


• Towleroad notes a Texan legislator who wants to make it illegal for trans people to use public washrooms.


• Transit Toronto observes that the Union-Pearson Express is undergoing test runs.


• Window on Eurasia worries about the potential for a minority of Russians in Latvia's eastern Latgale province to start trouble.