[BLOG] Some Friday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO notes that you can now LARP at Casa Loma.


• Centauri Dreams notes the odd reddish marks on the surface of Saturn's moon Tethys.


• Crooked Timber takes issue with David Frum's misrepresentation of an article on Mediterranean migration.


• The Dragon's Gaze notes the discovery of the aurora of a nearby brown dwarf.


• The Dragon's Tales notes evidence of carbonation on the Martian surface and suggests the presence of anomalous amounts of mercury on Earth associated with mass extinctions.


• Geocurrents maps the terrifying strength of California's drought.


• Language Hat notes that Cockney is disappearing from London.


• Language Log notes coded word usage on the Chinese Internet.


• Marginal Revolution links to a paper examining the effects of hunting male lions.


• The Map Room links to new maps of Ceres and Pluto.


• The Planetary Society Blog examines the Dawn probe's mapping orbits of Ceres.


• Progressive Download traces the migration of the aloe plants over time from Arabia.


• Savage Minds notes how hacktivists are being treated as terrorists.


• Window on Eurasia notes how the Ukrainian war is leading to the spread of heavy weapons in Russia, looks at Russian opposition to a Crimean Tatar conference in Turkey, suggests that the West is letting Ukraine fight a limited war in Donbas, and looks at the falling Russian birthrate.