[BLOG] Some Thursday links

[rfmcdonald]

• At The Big Picture, the Boston Globe shares some of its best photos from September.


• Drone 360 notes that drones are being used to track polar bear populations.


• The Frailest Thing's Michael Sacasas notes how people too often abandon moral responsibility to the machines which administer algorithms with real-world consequences.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the remarkable story of hockey star Jaromir Jagr.


• The Map Room Blog shares an official guide to map-making from Austria-Hungary.


• The NYR Daily notes how official Myanmar has invented Rohingya violent extremism out of practically nothing.


• Roads and Kingdoms shows readers where you can eat kosher in Mexico City.


• Whatever's John Scalzi shares a tweetstorm of his talking about the problems with daily word totals for writers.