[BLOG] Some Friday links

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• The Big Picture shares photos from Rio in advance of the Olympics.


• James Bow remembers Mel Hurtig, the recently dead Canadian nationalist.


• Centauri Dreams considers space-based collection of antimatter.


• Crooked Timber examines the tyranny of the ideal.


• Dangerous Minds looks at a charming early 1980s board game, Gay Monopoly.


• The Dragon's Gaze predicts future transits of Beta Pictoris b.


• The Dragon's Tales examines dwarf planet candidate 2015 RR245.


• Far Outliers shares some odd placenames found in the western United States.


• Language Hat reports on a new English/Yiddish dictionary.


• Language Log looks at how speakers of Slavic and Turkic communicate with each other across Eurasia.


• The Map Room Blog reports on an interesting-sounding exhibition on maps here in Toronto.


• Marginal Revolution considers a link between slow population growth and slow economic growth, and suggests land use policy in Tokyo is ideal for a large city.


• Steve Munro shares exchanges on GO Transit services in the Weston corridor.


• North's Justin Petrone shares his progress towards
  
• The NYRB Daily looks at how Russia and China in particular make extensive use of doping at the Olympics, and international sports generally.


• Savage Minds considers how writing can help anthropologists who have witnessed violence heal.


• The Volokh Conspiracy engages with the bloody legacy of Mao.