[BLOG] Some Thursday links

[rfmcdonald]

• News of Proxima Centauri b spread across the blogosphere yesterday, to Discover's D-Brief and Crux, to Joe. My. God., to the Planetary Society Blog, and to Centauri Dreams and The Dragon's Gaze.


• blogTO notes the impending opening of Toronto's first Uniqlo and suggests TTC buses may soon have a new colour scheme.


• The Dragon's Gaze discusses detecting exo-Titans and looks at the Kepler-539 system.


• Marginal Revolution notes Poland's pension obligations.


• The Map Room Blog looks at how empty maps are of use to colonialists.


• Steve Munro examines traffic on King Street.


• The NYR Daily looks at what an attic of ephemera reveals about early Islam.


• Otto Pohl announces his arrival in Kurdistan.


• The Russian Demographics Blog and Window on Eurasia note that more than half of Russia's medal-winners at the Olympics were not ethnically Russian, at least not wholly.


• Window on Eurasia looks at Ukraine's balance sheet 25 years after independence and considers if Belarus is on the way to becoming the next Ukraine.