[BLOG] Some Friday links

[rfmcdonald]

• The Boston Globe's Big Picture reports on Olympics evictions in Brazil, compares school life in Boston and Haiti, and follows an elderly man climbing Mount Washington.


• blogTO suggests jets will not be coming to the Toronto Island airport and argues the city is unlikely to legalize Uber.


• The Broadside Blog examines the staggering level of income inequality in the United States.


• Centauri Dreams considers, in real-life and science fiction, the problems with maintaining artificial economies and notes the complexities of the Pluto system.


• Crooked Timber notes the problems of organized labour and Labour in the United Kingdom.


• The Dragon's Gaze notes how atmospheric oxygen may not automatically point to the sign of life.


• The Dragon's Tales maps volcanic heat flow on Io and wonders if that world has a subsurface magna ocean


• Far Outliers notes a popular thief in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan and looks at the politicization of the German military after the 1944 coup.


• Geocurrents calls for recognizing the independence of Iraqi Kurdistan and Somaliland and looks at the geography of American poverty.


• Language Log notes Sinified Japanese.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money examines the complexities of race and history in New Mexico.


• Marginal Revolution notes that India unlike China cannot sustain global growth, approves of Snyder's Black Earth, and notes poor economic outcomes for graduates of some American universities.


• Otto Pohl is not optimistic about Ghana's economic future.


• The Planetary Society Blog evaluates the latest images from Mars.


• pollotenchegg evaluates the 1931 Polish census in what is now western Ukraine.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer looks at why Syrian refugees will not be resettled in South America and observes that Mexico has birthright citizenship.


• Cheri Lucas Rowlands describes the negative relationship for her between blogging and writing.


• The Russian Demographics Blog examines rising mortality in Ukraine and notes changing ethnic compositions of Tajikistan's populations.


• Savage Minds talks about the importance of teaching climate change in anthropology.


• Transit Toronto notes Toronto now has nine new streetcars.


• Whatever's John Scalzi considers the situation of poor people who go to good schools.


• Window on Eurasia notes the lack of Russian nationalism in the Donbas, observes the scale of the refugee problem in Ukraine, and looks at Russian alienation of Moldova.