[BLOG Some Friday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO notes that a TTC driver has been caught on video ... doing pushups.


• Centauri Dreams looks at the discovery of distant dwarf planet V774104.


• The Dragon's Gaze reports that white dwarf SDSS1228+1040 is surrounded by a ring of shattered planets.


• The Dragon's Tales notes widespread German espionage on allies, undermining somewhat German official protests.


• Far Outliers notes how the desire of Afghan Communists in the late 1970s for radical reform undermined their cause fatally.


• Geocurrents looks at the various heterodox Christian movements around the world, like Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses.


• Language Hat notes how people repairing a church in Russia found centuries' worth of bird nests, often made of written documents.


• Language Log looks at a photo caption translated from Tibetan to English via Singlish.


• Marginal Revolution writes about the Chinese economic slowdown.


• The Planetary Science Blog reports from Ceres.


• The Russian Demographics Blog shares a map of China, comparing life expectancy in different jurisdictions to different countries.


• Torontoist reports on a pediatric clinic that opened up in a Toronto public school.


• Towleroad notes the governor of Utah has argued a judge who removed a child from gay foster parents should follow the law.


• Window on Eurasia notes the relative disinterest of ethnic Russians in the Baltic States in Russia, and looks at the Ukrainian recognition of the Crimean Tatar genocide.


• The Financial Times' The World links to a paper noting, in Africa, the close relationship between city lights and economic growth.