[BLOG] Some Friday links

[rfmcdonald]

• 80 Beats reports that Tycho's famous supernova was caused not by a collision of two white dwarfs, but rather by the vacuuming up by a white dwarf of material from its partner normal star.


• Derek Flack at blogTO is unimpressed by the City of Toronto's decision not to build a pedestrian bridge near historic Fort York. False savings, there.


• James Bow has posted another one of his Canadian alternate political histories, this one imagining a breakthrough of the Reform Party into Ontario in 2000 and a minority Liberal government under Jean Chrétien.


• Daniel Drezner argues, again, that conspiracies remain popular and even resilient against facts because they explain reality for confused people.


• Charlie Whitaker at A Fistful of Euros is decidedly not a fan of British monarchy.


• The Global Sociology Blog reports on the contention that a major problem for feminism is the non-recognition by older and younger generations of women of their substantial differences.


• Registan notes that many of the people and organizations who claim Kazakhstan's elections were fair are also beholden to Kazakhstan.


• Slap Upside the Head observes that the United States' military has begun gay acceptance training. All that should be needed is the simple recognition that GLBT soldiers are normal, he argues.


• Window on Eurasia's Paul Goble summarizes a ridiculous article from a provincial newspaper in Russia that not only predicts the collapse of the Russian Federation but a Tatarstani-Kazakhstani conquest over their border regions.