[BLOG] Some Thursday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Apostrophen's 'Nathan Smith updates readers on his writing projects and points them to anthologies looking for new submissions.


• blogTO talks about the origins of Bay Street.


• Centauri Dreams notes new discoveries about the origins of mysterious "fast radio bursts".


• The Dragon's Tales notes how a genetic study of Panama's population showed the impact of colonization.


• Joe. My. God. notes Germany's opening of a centre for LGBT refugees.


• Language Log notes controversy over simplified characters in Hong Kong and poor fluency in kanji in Japan.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the controversies surrounding the commemoration of the death of Scalia at Georgetown University.


• Steve Munro looks at various routes for a relief line in the east of the city.


• North's Justin Petrone talks about teaching his daughter who ran Estonia during the Soviet era.


• Strange Maps maps Europe divided into city-states.


• Window on Eurasia notes Kazakhstan's plan to shift to Latin script for Kazakh and looks at ethnic Russian converts to Islam.