[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Far Outliers' Joel describes the rather remarkably thorough Stalin-era imprisonment and massacre of ethnic Poles--even people associated with ethnic Poles--in modern Belarus and Ukraine.


• GNXP's Razib Khan analyses genetic data from Southeast Asians suggesting that after substantial migration from South Asia in antiquity, Tai expansion south not only occurred quite recently but resulted in the replacement of the local population.


• Laywers, Guns and Money takes a look at the unconvincing, and deeply anti-human, Deep Green ideology of Derrick Jensen. Calling human extinction a plus is somewhat misanthropic, especially when you welcome billions of dead.


• Marginal Revolution has two interesting posts, one noting that new studies of the economy of Ghana suggest the country is richer than previously believed, the other observing that the income gaps between North and Latin America (in the north's favour) have always existed.


• Mark Simpson notes how, despite his allegiances to traditional masculinity, in his self-care--his plastic surgery, say--Breivik was unknowingly metrosexual.


• Slap Upside the Head notes that supporters of the Alberta oil sands project are trying to garner support by pointing out that Canada (including Alberta) supports human rights, including gay rights. Progress, right?


• Strange Maps features an interesting map, a reimagining of Denmark as a colony of Greenland complete with Greenlandic placenames and human geographies.