[BLOG] Some Friday links

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• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly talks about her favourite things in New York City.
  
• Centauri Dreams features an essay by Nick Nielsen arguing in favour of manned spaceflight.


• The Dragon's Gaze notes the unusual chemical composition of the debris disk of HD 34700.


• The Dragon's Tales notes Finland's interest in a guaranteed minimum income.


• Language Log notes the complexities of Wenzhou dialect.


• Languages of the World shares an old post on the Roma and their language.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes that prison rape in the United States is a real thing.


• pollotenchegg looks at birth rate trends in Ukraine over 2013-2015.


• Savage Minds notes the difficulties of life as an anthropologist.


• Torontoist notes a dance festival in Seaton Village.


• Towleroad notes the Illinois ban on gay conversion therapy.


• Transit Toronto looks at the TTC's service in the time of the Canadian National Exhibition.


• Window on Eurasia looks at a Ukrainian nationalist criticism of Ukrainian policy after independence, and suggests that fear of a Russian nationalist backlash might lead to a Russian annexation of Donbas.