[BLOG] Some Saturday links

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• Behind the Numbers' Carl Haub notes that most of the recent fall in American fertility is a consequence of falling Mexican-American fertility, with fertility in other groups remaining stable.


• Daniel Drezner is upset that, according to its star Brad Pitt, the film version of World War Z will minimize the international politics of the anti-zombie war inasmuch as those politics made the book.


• Eastern Approaches notes ongoing tensions in Slovakia over that nation's history of collaboration with the Nazis in the Second World War.


• At Language Log, Steven Bird links to his account of how he's using Android tablets to record the languages of indigenous tribes in the Brazilian Amazon.


• Marginal Revolution's Tyler Cowen thinks that Cyprus would have done better to leave the Eurozone altogether and adopt a new currency rather than stay in the Eurozone.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer is surprised that Cypriots are willing to tolerate the Euro even with the terrible costs it imposes on their economy.


• Visual Science's Perrin Ireland documents the biosphere discovered to exist in some oceanic crustal areas.


• Window on Eurasia's Paul Goble notes that, as a result of emigration, the once-large Russophone community of Tajikistan has almost entirely disappeared.