[BLOG] Some Saturday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Apostrophen's 'Nathan Smith talks about his upcoming session at the Naked Heart literary festival here in Toronto.


• blogTO notes that Metrolinx is set to kill Bombardier's LRT contract.


• Centauri Dreams talks about the discovery of planets in the system of HD 87646, one not unlike Alpha Centauri.


• Dangerous Minds talks about a documentary on skinheads.


• The Dragon's Gaze links to two papers about the discovery of planetary debris in orbit of white dwarfs.
  
• The Dragon's Tales links to a paper speculating if the primordial atmosphere of Titan was ammonia.


• The Everyday Sociology Blog talks about the vote and immigrants.


• The LRB Blog notes the worrying state of Brexit rhetoric.


• The Map Room Blog links to a digital atlas of Mi'kmaq names in Nova Scotia.


• Marginal Revolution looks at the economic meltdown in Zimbabwe.


• The Planetary Society Blog looks at China's powerful new Long March 5 rocket.


• Towleroad notes Kim Davis' large legal bill.


• The Volokh Conspiracy's Orin Kerr supports Hillary, another noting how Utah can save the US from Trump.


• Window on Eurasia argues Putin's Russia is more dangerous than the Soviet Union and suggests that the official definition of the Russian nation is brittle.