[BLOG] Some Saturday links

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• blogTO notes that retail space on Bloor Street in Yorkville is not only the priciest in Canada, but among the priciest in the world.


• Centauri Dreams notes how fast radio bursts, a natural phenomenon, can be used to understand the universe.


• Dangerous Minds looks at a Kate Bush music performance on Dutch television in 1978.


• The Dragon's Gaze links to an analysis of the asteroids disintegrating in orbit of WD 1145+017.


• The Dragon's Tales notes evidence from meteorites that Mars has been dry and inhospitable for eons.


• The Everyday Sociology Blog looks at the way we construct time.


• Language Log highlights a 1943 phrasebook for English, Spanish, Tagalog, and Hokkien.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the resistance of the Tohono O'odham, a border people of Arizona and Sonora, to a wall.


• The LRB Blog looks at a curious painting claiming to depict the cause of England's greatness.


• Marginal Revolution notes the sheer scale of mass tourism in Iceland.


• Strange Maps shares an interesting map depicting support for Clinton and Trump, showing one as a continental landmass and the other as an archipelago.


• Towleroad praises the musical Falsettos
for its LGBT content (among other things).

• Window on Eurasia looks at controversy over ethnonyms in Russian, and argues Putinism is a bigger threat to the West than Communism.