[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Bad Astronomy reports on the continuing frustrating lack of certainty as to whether or not the Hubble space telescope's successor will survive budget cuts or not. (It should; overspending is all in the past, and cancelling it now would be pointless.)


• blogTO asks the inevitable question: What landmark should be renamed in memory of Jack Layton?


• blogTO also reports that the famed Green Room may, or may not, open up again (unless it doesn't).


• Centauri Dreams reports on a recent astronomical research project's discovery of super-Earths orbiting nearby Sol-like stars, including three orbiting the nearby 82 Eridani (the worlds are much too close to their primaries, sadly).


• Daniel Drezner ranks the winners and the losers from Libya.


• Mark Simpson is decidedly unimpressed with the techniques and technologies used by some scientists to identify the different strains of human sexuality. "All that has been proven is that measuring penile blood-flow in a laboratory is a highly reductive and highly abnormal measure of male sexuality."


• Gideon Rachman wonders if Libya will need peacekeepers and where this peacekeepers will come from: NATO, the Arab League?


• Spike Japan visits Fukushima and reports--with extensive pictures--on the extensive drift racing scene there.


• Towleroad emphasizes the importance of Jack Layton as a long-standing GLBT ally in its coverage.


• Understanding Society poses the interesting question of what life is like in the small cities of the United States (and elsewhere, too), the ones neither big-city urban nor suburban or exurban.