[BLOG] Some Monday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO notes that the CN Tower will appear on the new loonie.


• The Dragon's Gaze reports on the circumstellar disk of unusual star 48 Librae.


• The Dragon's Tales notes evidence that bonobos and chimpanzees have interbred a quarter=million years ago, like humans and Neanderthals.


• Language Log remembers a Chinese man imprisoned for wearing a shirt insulting Xi Jinping.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money is correct in arguing for an end to feral cat populations, on ecological grounds.


• The LRB Blog looks at efforts to memorialize D.H. Lawrence in his home town in the north of England.


• Marginal Revolution reports on a high-profile debate in China between two economists.


• The Map Room Blog maps mortality in Switzerland and finds large differences between Latin and Germanic areas.


• Strange Maps notes one British proposal in the 1780s with the United States that would have given all of inhabitable Canada to that country.


• Window on Eurasia looks at problems with Russia's new concept of a civic nation.