[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO notes a house on downtown Toronto's Jersey Avenue, a near-laneway, that is on the market at nearly eight hundred thousand dollars.


• Centauri Dreams warns that with the passage of Dawn and New Horizons and Cassini, an era of unmanned space exploration will come to an end.


• Crooked Timber's Belle Waring considers Western/Asian cultural differences on gender.


• The Dragon's Gaze links to one paper seeking to detect exoplanet rotation rates and other data via eclipses, and links to another noting the discovery of N2H in a ring around TW Hydrae.


• The Dragon's Tales reports on the results of a genetic analysis of the dwarf mammoths of Wrangel Island.


• A Fistful of Euros looks at how the Second World War started Ireland's break from the Sterling zone.


• The Frailest Thing considers the good of tech criticism.


• Joe. My. God. celebrates a decade of same-sex marriage in Spain.


• Language Hat looks at how promoters of a literature or a work can get things they champion translate.


• The Planetary Society Blog has two posts celebrating its role in the New Horizons probe.


• Towleroad notes that YouTube star Shane Dawson has just come out as bisexual.


• Window on Eurasia looks at an incipient Cossack separatism.