[BLOG] Some Monday links
Aug. 31st, 2015 09:45 pm- blogTO shares photos of Yonge and Bloor from the 1960s.
- Crooked Timber's Corey Robin looks at trigger warnings in education.
- The Dragon's Gaze notes that Barnard's Star cannot support a massive planet in its orbit.
- The Dragon's Tales has more on the Ukrainian war.
- The Everyday Sociology Blog examines racism.
- Far Outliers notes how the Ryukyus fared under American occupation.
- A Fistful of Euros looks at the divergences of Spain and the United Kingdom interest rate-wise.
- Geocurrents notes another small Kurdish-speaking sect. Joe. My. God. notes an attempt to appeal the Irish marriage referendum.
- The Map Room's Jonathan Crowe notes a 2016 conference on fictional maps in Poland.
- Marginal Revolution notes a microhistory of a block in New York City.
- The Power and the Money examines Ukraine's debt negotiations and argues that Russia is not as big a player in global oil markets as it might like.
- The Russian Demographics Blog and Window on Eurasia note how ethnic Russians in Ukraine are continuing to identify as ethnic Ukrainians.
- Understanding Society considers realism in social sciences.
- Whatever's John Scalzi talks about the Sad Puppies.
- Window on Eurasia notes Tatarstan's potential separatism and suggests some Russian Germans still want an autonomy.