[BLOG] Some Monday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Burgh Diaspora notes that Spanish workers are moving to Mexico and the Germany isn't doing so well thanks to regulatory and language barriers.


• The Dragon's Tales points to a recent study suggesting that the Neanderthals of the Iberian peninsula died out before the arrival of Homo sapiens.


• Eastern Approaches observes, after the failure of a civil union law to make it through the Polish parliament, the problems of facing GLBT rights in Poland.


• Could we have had a moonbase instead of the International Space Station? At False Steps, Paul Drye suggests that might have been a possibility.


• The Global Sociology Blog observes the global rise of the cosmetic surgery industry and points out that Saudi Arabia is a terrible place to live if you're a woman or a child.


• GNXP's Razib Khan points to a German study suggesting that only 1% of children, not 10%, have biological fathers other than the people identified as such.


• Language Hat notes the substantial immigration of Circassian-speaking Armenian Christians to the Russian North Caucasus in the 18th century.


• At Lawyers, Guns and Money, Scott Lemieux doesn't think much of Alan Dershowitz's many intellectual contortions, on the matter of the Brooklyn College's conference and on other things.


• Window on Eurasia links to speculation in a Russian regional paper as to the prospects for the amalgamation of different federal units. Could there be a Middle Volga unit dominated by Kazan' (and Tatarstan)?