[BLOG] Some Thursday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO warned yesterday of impending snowfall.


• Centauri Dreams considers if planets in the circumstellar habitable zones of red dwarfs, like Proxima Centauri b, might tend to be ocean worlds.


• Crooked Timber tries to track down the source of some American electoral maps breaking down support for candidates finely, by demographics.


• D-Brief shares stunning images of L1448 IRS3B, a nascent triple stellar system.


• Joe. My. God. notes the advent of same-sex marriage in Gibraltar.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes that, the last time the Cubs won, Russia was run by Romanovs.


• Maximos62 meditates on Bali as a plastic civilization.


• The NYRB Daily reflects on how the Beach Boys have, and have not, aged well.


• Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw looks at un- and underemployment in Australia.


• Torontoist looks at what we can learn from the dedicated bus routes of Mexico City.


• Understanding Society looks at economics and structural change in middle-income countries.


• Window on Eurasia notes one man's argument that Russians should be privileged as the only state-forming nation in the Russian Federation, and shares another Russia's argument against any idea of Belarusian distinctiveness.