[BLOG] Some Monday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO looks at Toronto's north/south-divided streets.


• The Dragon's Gaze suggests that there might be lightning in protoplanetary disks.


• The Dragon's Tales considers way to make gasoline a biofuel.


• Far Outliers notes the breakdown of interethnic relations in the late Soviet South Caucasus into war.


• Joe. My. God. let George Takei explain why he stayed in the closet.


• Language Hat likes the poetry of Pasternak.


• Language Log notes a bizarre clip from 1930s New York City featuring a boy scout speaking Cantonese.


• Marginal Revolution links to a paper suggesting that economists overlooked the rise of the 1% because of sampling issues and argues that power couples worsen economic inequality.


• Cheri Lucas Rowlands shares photos from Paris in December.


• The Russian Demographics Blog notes unhelpful reactions to the decline of Russian as a language of wider communication.


• Window on Eurasia notes turbulence in the Russian Orthodox Church (1, 2) and suggests the Donbas is likely to evolve into a second Chechnya.