[BLOG] Some Friday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO notes this weekend is going to be warm.


• Centauri Dreams looks at moons of the dwarf planets in the Kuiper belt.


• Dangerous Minds looks at some photos of American malls taken in the late 1980s.


• The Dragon's Gaze notes a white dwarf that stole so much matter from its stellar partner to make it a brown dwarf.


• The Dragon's Tales notes Greenland may not have been particularly warm when the Vikings came.


• Language Hat tells the story of one solitary person who decided to learn Korean.


• Language Log writes about Sinitic languages written in phonetic scripts.


• The Map Room Blog shares a map showing how New Orleans is sinking.


• Marginal Revolution suggests Brexit is not a good strategy, even in the hypothetical case of a collapsing EU. Why not just wait for the collapse?


• The New APPS Blog notes with concern the expansion of Elsevier.


• The NYRB Daily notes the perennial divisions among the Kurds.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer wonders what's wrong with Bernie Sanders.


• Towleroad looks at the impending decriminalization of gay sex in the Seychelles.


• Understanding Society looks at the work of Brankovich in understanding global inequality.


• Window on Eurasia notes that Crimean Tatars are no longer alone in remembering 1944, and looks at the unhappiness of Tuva's shrinking Russophone minority.