[BLOG] Some Friday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO notes that John Tory supports the decriminalization of marijuana.


• The Dragon's Gaze considers if there might be a hot Jupiter orbiting a pulsating star.


• The Dragon's Tales wonders if multicellularity in cyanobacteria three billion years ago helped drive the Great Oxidation Event.


• Far Outliers notes the 1878 introduction of football to Burma.


• A Fistful of Euros notes that Europe is muddling through in the Mediterranean versus migrants and observes that even the optimistic scenarios for economic growth in Greece are dire.


• The Frailest Thing considers the idea of a technological history of modernity.


• Language Log notes an example of multiscript graffiti in Berlin.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes how the Confederate cause won the Civil War despite losing the battles.


• Marginal Revolution argues that default will do nothing to make the underlying issues of Greece business-wise better.


• The Planetary Society Blog looks at the intriguing geology of Ceres.


• Peter Rukavina shows the Raspberry Pi computer he built into a Red Rocket tea tin.


• The Russian Demographics Blog links to a paper studying Russian patriarchy and misogyny in public health.


• Spacing Toronto looks at the genesis of the Bloor Viaduct's Luminous Veil.


• Towleroad examines the Texan pastor who threatened to set himself on fire over same-sex marriage.


• Une heure de peine celebrates its eighth birthday.


• The Volokh Conspiracy reacts to the Michael Oren controversy over American ties with Israel.


• Window on Eurasia warns that Putin's system in Chechnya is not viable, predicts a worsening of the Russian HIV/AIDS epidemic, and notes that Jewish emigration from Russia has taken off again.