[BLOG] Some Thursday links

[rfmcdonald]

• 'Apostrophen's 'Nathan Smith describes his writing projects for this year.


• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper examining exomoon formation.


• The LRB Blog worries about Trump's hold on the button.


• The NYRB Daily looks at Rex Tillerson, an oil company diplomat to autocrats.


• Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw shares the rediscovered mid-19th century painting by Legros, L'Angelus.
  
• Towleroad looks at the Russian tradition of kompromat, the gathering of compromising information for blackmail.


• Transit Toronto notes that TTC surveying in Scarborough is beginning.


• Understanding Society looks at path dependency in the formation of academic disciplines.


• Window on Eurasia looks at Russian tensions regarding gastarbeiter migration and suggests Russia is set to actively sponsor separatism across the former Soviet Union.