[BLOG] Some Thursday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO notes how expensive Toronto's rental market is.


• Centauri Dreams looks at the TRAPPIST-1 exoplanet system.


• Crooked Timber engages with the complexities of racism.


• The Crux shares some oral history about the detection of the first gravitational wave.


• The Dragon's Gaze reports about the difficulties involved with detecting exoplanets around red dwarfs and describes the discovery of a super-Earth orbiting an orange dwarf in the Pleiades.


• Joe. My. God. notes that New York City ended free web browsing at browsing stations because people kept looking up porn.


• Language Log notes that a partially shared script does not make Chinese readable by speakers of Japanese, and vice versa.


• Marginal Revolution cautions against the idea that Brexit is over.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer talks about the usefulness of counterfactuals, especially good counterfactuals.


• Torontoist argues that the TTC needs more cats. Why not?


• The Volokh Conspiracy links to a comparative global study of settlements in occupied territories.


• Window on Eurasia reports that Google has displaced television as a primary source of news for Russians.