[BLOG] Some Monday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO notes that a milk bar will be replacing a famously criticized Starbucks on Queen Street West
  and notes a new Mexican sandwich shop in Kensington Market.


• I can empathize with the Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly as she describes the benefit of hip replacement surgery.


• Centauri Dreams looks at the inside of a comet.


• The Dragon's Gaze notes one paper arguing that circumstellar habitable zones should be drawn as broadly as possible, owing to their complicated nature.


• Joe. My. God. notes charges that an American same-sex female couple has been thrown into jail on trumped-up charges in Kuwait because they are lesbian.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes that a Scottish dream of independence as an oil-financed state looks rather sketchy now.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer notes that Moore's law has ended.


• The Volokh Conspiracy features speculation that
  
• Window on Eurasia links to a study noting Russia's ten most Orthodox, Muslim and pagan cities.