[BLOG] Some Thursday links

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• blogTO notes the report that the CBC might sell its holdings.


• Centauri Dreams observes another search for a Kardashev III civilization that ended in failure.


• Crooked Timber is fed up with Rod Dreher.


• The Dragon's Gaze and Centauri Dreams report on new orbital parameters for Beta Pictoris b.


• The Dragon's Tales reports the Permian extinction lasted sixty thousand years.
Marginal Revolution looks at the dynamics of British inequality.

• pollotenchegg maps Russification in Soviet Ukraine in the 1920s.


• The Russian Demographics Blog notes reports of a brain drain from Russia.


• Spacing Toronto looks at the iconography of city signage.


• Torontoist reports on a documentary regarding Toronto's gun culture.


• Window on Eurasia warns of a crackdown on Crimean Tatar institutions, notes the opening of a new mosque in Moscow, reports on inter-Muslim violence in Russia, and suggests Belarus now is in the position of the Baltic States in 1940.