[PHOTO] Stream, Covehead, Prince Edward Island National Park

Just east of Covehead near Stanhope is a small stream that runs, from a brackish pond, through the sand dunes, to the Gulf of St. Lawrence. When I was younger I liked building sand castles next to this stream, appreciating how its course changed with the seasons. This summer I visited the stream to find that it was choked with green algae, something to do with the pond's ecology. It still looks nice from a distance, I think.

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

• Centauri Dreams' Paul Gilster writes about a need for some paradigm to support extraterrestrial colonization.


• At Crooked Timber, Henry Farrell is skeptical about the long-term environmental effects of the Crimea crisis, as domestic fracking in Europe will start looking to be more secure than Russian imports.


• Eastern Approaches notes the support of Poland for Ukraine.


• Far Outliers notes the plight of German ships, civilian and military, in the Pacific at the time the First World War was declared.


• A Fistful of Euros links to the first George Bush's infamous "Chicken Kiev" speech of 1991 counseling against Ukrainian independence.


• Geocurrents' Asya Pereltsvaig reviews recent media coverage of the Crimean crisis, and wonders about the consequences for Russia.


• Marginal Revolution links to some recommended books, fiction and otherwise, on Crimea.


• The Planetary Society Blog invites regular non-astronomers to join the hunt for an asteroid.


• Otto Pohl places the issues of the Crimean Tatars in the context of the forcible homogenization of European nation-states. Other communities also vanished.


• Towleroad notes Republican Congressman Steve King who apparently doesn't believe in protecting LGBT right because it's not immediately visible. (Like religion?)


• The Volokh Conspiracy's Ilya Somin argues that making Russian leaders pay personal costs, via passport bans and the like, is a good thing.