[BLOG] Some Friday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO lists the ten weirdest houses in Toronto.


• Centauri Dreams takes issue with the science of Kim Stanley Robinson's new novel Aurora.


• Crooked Timber notes the ongoing controversy regarding the dismissal of Steven Salaita.


• The Dragon's Gaze reports on the imaging of exoplanet 51 Eridani b.


• Joe. My. God. notes that Madonna is abandoning Russia for its homophobia.


• The Power and the Money notes Douglas Muir's argument that dictatorship, as a system of government, has not become less common.