[BLOG] Some Monday links

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• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly makes the case that people need rest.


• The Dragon's Gaze wonders if a lithium-rich giant star KIC 9821622 ate its exoplanets.


• The Dragon's Tales writes about the Russian war in Syria.


• The Everyday Sociology Blog considers the sociology of holidays.


• A Geocurrents guest post looks at one mapping of ISIS.


• Joe. My. God. notes Donald Trump's defense of Vladimir Putin, discounting state-sponsored murder of journalists, and reports on the repeal of marriage equality in Slovenia.


• Language Hat looks at how a Chinese font was created.


• Language Log looks at how the Japanese language can be used to memorize pi.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money maps student debt in the United States.


• Marginal Revolution considers migration as a basic human right.


• Torontoist looks at how KFC got started in Mississauga.


• Window on Eurasia considers the reasons for Donbas residents to seek refugee status elsewhere, looks at Russia's problems with Circassians, examines Russian Muslim emigrants in Turkey, and reports on fears in Kazakhstan that the country might be attacked by Russian media.