[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO notes that after the Berlin attack, the Toronto Christmas Market has upped its security.


• D-Brief looks at how roads divide ecosystems.


• The Dragon's Gaze notes that WD 1536+520 apparently has solar levels of rock-forming elements.


• Language Log examines central European metaphors for indecipherable languages.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money is diffident on the question of whether Sanders could have won versus Trump.


• Marginal Revolution looks at the recent depreciation of Canada's natural resources.


• The Planetary Society Blog talks about a recent essay collection noting the strides made in planetary science over the past quarter-century.


• Cheri Lucas Rowlands shares photos from her trip to Hawai'i.


• Seriously Science notes Santa's risk of personal injury.


• Torontoist looks at a University of Toronto professor's challenges to a law on gender identity.

Whatever's John Scalzi likes what Disney has done, and is doing, to Star Wars.

• Window on Eurasia argues that Russians might want fascism but lack a leader and argues Western defeatism versus Russia is as ill-judged now as it was in 1979.