[BLOG] Some Thursday links

[rfmcdonald]

• The Big Picture has photos from the scene of the disastrous Chinese cruise liner sinking on the Yangtze.


• blogTO observes that a schooner found buried at the foot of Bathust Street will be moved to Fort York.


• D-Brief notes that the antidepressant Zoloft can be used to fight Ebola.


• The Dragon's Tales notes how pre-agricultural Europeans were more robust than their agriculturalist successors.


• The Frailest Thing's Michael Sacasas discusses the problems of a mind that reduces everything to routine algorithms.


• Joe. My. God. notes how a Costa Rican judge recognized a common-law same-sex marriage in that country.


• Marginal Revolution wonders if Greece might be well-advised to default.


• pollotenchegg charts declining economic output.


• Torontoist examines the growing controversies over garding.


• Peter Watts wonders what consciousness is actually good for.


• Window on Eurasia looks at the extent to which Russian sanctions against the European Union try to distinguish between pro- and anti-Russian states, and argues that Russia's traumatic long 20th century still continues.