[BLOG] Some Thursday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO notes a threat to some of Liberty Village's historic buildings through development.


• Centauri Dreams looks at planetary formation around close binary SDSS 1557, which includes a white dwarf.


• False Steps' Paul Drye announces a new book project, They Played the Game, which looks at how different baseball players overlooked in our history might have become stars had things gone differently.


• Language Hat looks at the linguistic differences between the two Koreas.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the exploitation of Syrian refugees by Turkish garment manufacturers.


• The LRB Blog examines the phenomenon of myth-making regarding Sweden.
  
• The Map Room Blog links to a website sharing the stories of cartographers.


• The NYRB Daily notes the chaos that Trump will be bringing to American immigration law.


• Peter Rukavina talks about his experience as a library hacker.


• Supernova Condensate is optimistic about the potential of Space X to actually inaugurate an era of space tourism.