[BLOG] Some Thursday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Gerry Canavan has a set of links up.
  
• The Dragon's Tales links to a video examining the nature--the mass, the orbit--of Theia, the Mars-side object that by impacting the early Earth created the Moon.


• Geocurrents is back with a post criticizing the state-based model of geopolitics.


• Joe. My. God. notes that anti-gay Americans are unhappy with Walmart's opposition to pro-discrimination laws.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money supports the Norwegian model of rehabilitation in prison.


• Marginal Revolution suggests that the debate on historical rates of social mobility across time and space is still raging.


• Steve Munro proves with photos that the new streetcars displaced from Spadina by construction are on Harbourfront.


• Savage Minds notes that two of its writers are moving on.


• Spacing Toronto illustrates how, from the 1920s through to the 1980s, the idea of a stadium was popular.


• Torontoist looks at Regent Park's innovative education model.


• Towleroad notes that the Tokyo ward of Shibuya is recognizing same-sex partnerships.

Transit Toronto notes that four generations of streetcars will be on display at the Beaches' Easter parade.

• Window on Eurasia suggests Russia is much worse off relative to its competitors than the Soviet Union was in the 1980s, notes the crackdown on Crimean Tatar media, and looks at the history and future of ethnic jokes in Russia.