[BLOG] Some Thursday links

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• blogTO notes that Toronto's housing market is now hotter than Vancouver's.


• The Crux looks at progress in human reproductive technology, including in ectogenesis.


• D-Brief looks at a new simulation of an asteroid impacting the ocean.


• Dangerous Minds reports on a French cement truck made into a giant mirrored disco ball.


• In Media Res' Russell Arben Fox writes about the benefits of reading the Old Testament.


• Language Hat considers the experiences of one man trying to learn Avar.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money suggests Obama's evaluation of his historical touchstone personalities is off.


• The Map Room Blog looks at Soviet spy maps.


• The Planetary Society Blog tries to figure out space policy under the Trump Administration.


• Window on Eurasia notes Russia's loss of sporting events and argues that Circassian language and culture are threatened with extinction.


• Arnold Zwicky talks about two unusual flowers.