[BLOG] Some Monday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO shares some wacky and unusual maps of the Toronto subway system.


• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly describes her reason why she did not want to have children.


• Gerry Canavan has another post of links.


• Centauri Dreams looks at Earth-like planets with circumbinary orbits and considers a new model of gas giant formation that explains Jupiter.


• Crooked Timber examines the ongoing controversy over the Hugo awards for science fiction, as captured by American right-wing authors.


• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper examining the habitability of water worlds.


• The Dragon's Tales notes the delay of China's Mars exploration program.


• Far Outliers looks at different systems for representing vowels with consonant symbols in the languages of the Pacific Islands.


• Geocurrents has some posts--1, 2, 3--looking at ways in which the state system does not reflect the reality of the Middle East.


• Language Hat looks at the revival of Manx.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes that the United States' Endangered Species Act is important for saving not just individual species but entire ecosystems.


• Marginal Revolution tells readers how to find good Iranian food.


• Steve Munro is dubious about the economics of the Union-Pearson Express.


• pollotenchegg looks at changing industrial production in Ukraine in 2013, finding that the east was doing poorly.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer looks at the military situation in eastern Ukraine.


• Cheri Lucas Rowlands shares beautiful pictures of Bermuda.


• Peter Rukavina continues mapping airplanes flying above Prince Edward Island.


• The Russian Demographics Blog reports on the results of the famine in 1930s Ukraine.


• Window on Eurasia argues that the Belarusian language is still endangered, quotes a Putin confidant on eastern Ukraine's separation, looks at the impact of the Internet on Karelia, and looks at ethnogenesis as two small nations of the North Caucasus merge.