[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO notes that Union Station's old GO concourse is going to be under construction for the next two years.


• The Dragon's Gaze links to papers on hunting for large-scale artifacts like Dyson spheres, searches for signatures of self-destructive civilizations, and speculation on how to discover Kardashev III civilizations.


• Languages of the World reports on Google's ability to translate Russian sentences.


• Language Log reports on one woman who can correlate the languages she reads in and the content to her health.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the importance of Confederate memorials.


• Marginal Revolution discusses the stagnation of the economy of Japan.


• Savage Minds reports on an anthropology conference in Papua New Guinea.


• Transit Toronto describes how this summer's adaptation of transit to the Pan Am/Parapan games is fading out.


• The Volokh Conspiracy notes how a ridiculous lawsuit intended to make Yelp pay contributors was dismissed.


• The Way The Future Blogs reports that Frederik Pohl's Gateway series is being adapted to television.


• Why I Love Toronto reports on local Toronto-area craftsmakers.


• Window on Eurasia notes that Russia's economic decline is leading to dropping numbers of Muslim pilgrims, and looks at the relationship between Russia and the Donbas republics.