[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO lists some of the most dangerous bus routes on the TTC, at least from the perspective of criminal activities.


• The Broadside Blog lauds the very tangibility of vinyl.


• Centauri Dreams considers SETI search strategies.


• Crooked Timber looks at the politics of hair in slavery societies.


• D-Brief considers LISA, the space-based gravitational wave observatory.


• The Dragon's Gaze notes a Chinese proposal to launch a Hubble-like telescope into orbit.


• The LRB Blog examines the fragile economy built by refugee entrepreneurs in Greece.


• Marginal Revolution notes the predominance of women in technical education in Sweden.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer can't understand the insanely self-destructive fiscal policies of West Virginia, cutting necessary state spending while subsidizing big business.


• Spacing Toronto's John Lorinc is skeptical of the idea that progress will be made on regional transit given the massive confusion.