[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• At A BCer in Toronto, Jeff Jedras doesn't think much about the Harper government's selection of failed Conservative candidates for the House of Commons as appointed Senators.


• Centauri Dreams' Paul Gilster takes a look that a question bedevilling planners of interstellar flight: how do you slow down interstellar vehicles after they've launched, given the huge energy costs involved, so they can actually take extended looks at their targets?


• Eastern Approaches mourns the very bad--in multiple senses--election in Belarus. Belarusians deserve better.


• Not Rocket Science's Ed Yong reports on a study suggesting that the sticks young female chimpanzees carry around with themselves may be dolls.


• Space and Culture reviews what seems to be a pretty interesting book on Latin American informal urbanization.


• Window on Eurasia gives undue credence to a plan by an anonymous Russian Livejournaler to expel most of the non-Russian republics of the North Caucasus from Russia.