[BLOG] Some Monday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO shares photos of Yonge and Dundas in the grimy 1970s.


• The Big Picture shares photos from a Tibetan Buddhist assembly.


• Crooked Timber shares a photo of Bristol's floating bridge.


• The Dragon's Gaze reports on an estimate of the number of extraterrestrial technological civilizations.


• The Dragon's Tales notes an atlas of drought in Europe.


• Geocurrents examines the fallacy of environmental determinism.


• Joe. My. God. notes how open travel between the European Union and Ukraine has been endangered by the failure to protect gay employment.


• Language Hat links to an essay by a feminist talking about what it is like to live in a language environment, that of Hebrew, where everything is gendered.


• Language Log engages with fax usage in Japan and notes rare characters in Taiwan.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the plight of the dying steel town, all the worse because it was evitable.


• Marginal Revolution has a bizarre defense of Ben Carson.


• The Russian Demographics Blog and Window on Eurasia report on a rectification of the Russian-Chinese frontier.


• Window on Eurasia is critical of village values in Russia, and notes the return of ISIS fighters to Azerbaijan.