[BLOG] Some Monday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO reports on the campaign to tear down the east Gardiner Expressway.


• Centauri Dreams considers what the universe would look like outside of a galaxy. (Dim, mainly.)
  
• Crooked Timber's Corey Robin links to his Salon article about corporate influence in politics.


• The Dragon's Gaze reports on a periodic nova that may be a white dwarf drawing matter from a substellar brown dwarf.


• The Dragon's Tales links to a paper suggesting that Titan's karst terrain is quite young, geologically speaking.


• Far Outliers reports on the importance of horses to the Comanche.


• Language Log describes the genesis of some supposed Chinese proverbs in 18th century Europe.


• Savage Minds looks at how you can be an anthropologist in the aftermath of a disaster like the Nepal earthquake.


• Spacing Toronto considers the Gardiner Expressway.


• Torontoist argues that John Tory just isn't as good as we'd have liked him to be.


• Towleroad notes how the Russian Orthodox Church has cut off links with Protestant churches in Scotland and France for being insufficiently homophobic.


• Window on Eurasia notes the continuing heavy out-migration of ethnic Russians from the North Caucasus and looks at changing patterns of ethnic intermarriage among non-Russians.