[BLOG] Some Monday links

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• Centauri Dreams features a guest post by anthropologist Cameron M. Smith speculating on the kinds of evolutionary change that could occur among humans via long-distance, long-duration interstellar flights and later pplanetary colonizations.


• Geocurrents notes that politics in Kenya, as evidenced by the recent election, are still strongly marked by the polarization of different ethnic groups behind different candidates.


• John Moyer is bored by the over-the-top superhero genre.


• Marginal Revolution's Tyler Cowen seems appalled by the weekend decision to impose a haircut on depositors in Cypriot banks.


• Noel Maurer, writing at The Power and the Money, notes the division of Japan on east-west lines by incompatible national electricity grids. Eastern Japan including Tokyo, hit hard by the aftermath of the tsunami and nuclear plant closures, stayed afloat thanks to rolling blackouts.


• Strange Maps charts the frontiers, exclaves, and territorial disputes of the Vatican City.


• Torontoist notes the growing popularity of Gaelic footballs in Toronto. It's useful for networking for new immigrants from Ireland, too.


• Towleroad reports on a Turkish campaign, led by the prime minister, against the two lesbian foster mothers of a Turkish child taken into custody at six months of age. (He's now 9.)


• The Volokh Conspiracy's Eugene Volokh notes that the Catholic cardinal of Durban in South Africa, Wilfrid Fox Napier, has said that pedophile priests who in turn raped children shouldn't be considered criminally responsible.


• At Window on Eurasia, Paul Goble reports that Vladimir Putin defended the Winter Wage waged against Finland.