[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Over at Bad Astronomy, Phil Plait reproduces a map showing how temperatures across most of North America are substantially higher than normal, and notes that so far the climate changes resemble the early predicted effects of climate change.


• BagNewsNotes' Michael Shaw notes that of the three pictures of Anderson Cooper used to illustrated his coming-out blog post, two of them feature him in war zones. What does this choice of photographs say?


• Will Baird at The Dragon's Tales let me know that apparently dinosaurs were feathered, or at least that feathers were much more common than previously assumed.


• Geocurrents observes that plans in Ethiopia to build dams on the Nile to support Ethiopian economic development are making Egypt, dependent on the waters of the Nile, worried.


• Guistino at Itching for Eestimaa considers genetic diversity--and, of necessity, past and present ethnic diversity--in modern Estonia.


• I only hope that the anecdote that The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer shares about two New Yorkers' ignoring an assault victim was a joke.


• Registan's Casey Michel writes about how ongoing disputes over maritime boundaries on the Caspian Sea between the five littoral states--Russia, Iran, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, and Kazakhstan--are starting to produce serious problems.