[BLOG] Some Friday links

[rfmcdonald]

• James Bow comes out in support of today's strike by Ontario teachers.


• Beyond the Beyond's Bruce Sterling links to an article describing how NASA archivists tried to recover data from a 1960s lunar orbiter.


• Centauri Dreams has two posts on habitable exomoons, the first on gas giants in the habitable zones of other stars and the second on the requirements for moons to be habitable. (They would need to be roughly a quarter the mass of the Earth.)


• Daniel Drezner likes the idea of a United States-European Union transatlantic free trade agreement.


• Eastern Approaches notes the directions of Slovakia's foreign policy.


• Norman Geras links to a blogger who suggests that, if Saddam Hussein stayed in power in Iraq, the Arab Spring in that country could have been bloody. (Look at Syria.)


• Understanding Society's Daniel Little takes a look at the idea that different generations have different experiences.


• Window on Eurasia reports on a Russian writer who notes that the North Caucasus and its population cotninues to identify as Russian, and shares in Russian experiences. No separatism there.