[NEWS] Some Wednesday links

[rfmcdonald]

I've a nice raft of posts tonight.

• The Globe and Mail is among the news sources to note that an investigation of climate scientists' E-mails in the United Kingdom--the ones at the heart of the so-called "Climategate" affair--reveals that they haven't been committing fraud. The science holds up.


• In this preview from the New York Times Magazine, the fact that many species exhibit same-sex behaviour is noted, with example after example after example given.


• This March was the first March without snow on record, the Toronto Star's Tamara Bulaja reports, emphasizing the degree to which winter has become a three-month affair.


• CBC reports on an interesting auction of ex-Soviet and Russian space memorabilia, everything from heat shields to toilets.


• The Times writes about how a German bishop who's a close ally of the current Pope is alleged to have viciously beaten any number of orphan girls.


• Bingo attendance on PEI is down, the CBC reports, down so much that this community event might be threatened.


• Belgium has beat Québec to the punch in banning face-covering veils.


• Antonia Zerbisias on Facebook linked to this New York article describing how Lady Gaga made herself such a big, big pop star, complete with interviews with the woman herself.


• Someone, for whatever reason, cut down the steeple of a historic Anglican church in Newfoundland that was threatened with closure.