[BLOG] Some Friday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO notes that Toronto might be getting its own Arts Biennale like Venice.


• Centauri Dreams notes the detection of pebbles in the circumstellar disk of DG Tauri.


• Crooked Timber notes Nietzche's identification of the origins of trolling.


• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper suggesting that inflated hot Jupiters are sufficiently hot and massive to have self-sustaining nuclear fusion.


• The Dragon's Tales looks at ways of improving photosynthesis by genetic engineering.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money suggests that a successful Donald Trump run would be as unlikely as a Ronald Reagan run.


• Marginal Revolution considers the beneficial economic effects of competition between monotheisms.


• The Planetary Society Blog notes the advent of interplanetary cubesats.


• Peter Rukavina remixes a speech on Prince Edward Island to a techno beat.


• The Search reports from a conference on archiving E-mail.


• Torontoist tours the Pan-Am Athletes Village and wonders why we can't plan better.


• Towleroad notes massive support in Northern Ireland for marriage equality.


• Window on Eurasia notes ethnic conflict in a binational republic of the North Caucasus and observes political unrest in Yakutia.