[BLOG] Some Friday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO notes that the Union-Pearson Express is offering big discounts to attract riders, and observes that free WiFi in the TTC has been extended to Sherbourne and Castle Frank stations.


• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper suggesting hot Jupiters can form in situ.


• The Dragon's Tales notes Japan wants Australia to buy its naval vessels.


• The Everyday Sociology Blog looks back at eight years of output, and suggests it shows the broad scope of sociology.


• Far Outliers notes the rate of mental illness among Soviet Afghanistan veterans.


• Geocurrents looks at the very late settlement of Kiribati's Line Islands.


• Joe. My. God. notes that Cyprus has approved civil unions.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money shares on the shallow roots of the Non-Aligned Movement in the Third World.


• Marginal Revolution notes that highly-educated people keep dropping out of the army.


• Steve Munro notes the relationship between development charges and transit planning in Toronto.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer suggests unlikely ways for a Republican to take Democratic-leaning Michigan.


• Savage Minds shares an ethnographic perspective on the history of Pilgrims in New England.


• Transit Toronto notes that CP will be sending in trains filled with food to promote food banks.


• Window on Eurasia warns about the vulnerability of Belarus to integration with Russia.