[BLOG] Some Thursday links

[rfmcdonald]

• The Big Picture shares photos of life around the world this month.


• blogTO notes that a vacant lot on Sherbourne Street will become an urban farm, for a time.


• Centauri Dreams explores the strange oceans of Titan.


• Dangerous Minds shares some astoundingly open ads for cocaine paraphrenalia from the 1980s.


• The Dragon's Tales links to a study suggesting that it was the Chicxulub impact, not the Deccan Traps volcanic eruptions, which were extinction-triggering.


• Joe. My. God. notes the governor of South Carolina's statement that his political opponents orchestrated the reaction to anti-trans legislation to ensure he would not get re-elected.


• Language Hat reports on an Igbo journalist explaining why he, and many of his people, do not speak their ancestral language.


• The Map Room Blog maps patterns of rail travel in Europe.


• Michael Steeleworthy is critical, and rightly so, of the massive announced cutbacks to Newfoundland and Labrador's library service.


• Torontoist notes the Toronto Hard Candy gym's cutting of its links with Madonna.


• Transit Toronto notes the TTC is looking for volunteer ambassadors.


• Window on Eurasia notes that population growth in Russia is concentrated in largely non-Russian regions.