[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Bag News Notes comments on one of the iconic photos of the Boston Marathon bombing aftermath, of an elderly man on the ground in front of three cops. It turns out that the man, a jogger, ended up coming second in his age class.


• Burgh Diaspora's Jim Russell notes that migration and economic development are quite compatible, even emigration--migrating professionals often return to their community of birth, bringing skills and connections acquired abroad with them.


• Centauri Dreams' Paul Gilster notes the few surveys of the nearby universe for Dyson spheres, vast artifacts of extraterrestrial civilizations. Nothing has been found so far!


• Bostonian Daniel Drezner posts about the necessity of reacting to the Boston Marathon bombings calmly and rationally.


• Joe. My. God. picks up on a Paraguayan presidential candidates vitriolic condemnation of same-sex marriage and non-heterosexuals, and on the response to said.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money observes that left-wing terrorism in the United States is pretty marginal, certainly more so than right-wing terrorism.


• The New APPS Blog notes that a great way to ensure the full development of young children is to talk to them.


• Normblog's Norman Geras is quite unimpressed with an article expressing opposition to same-sex marriage (here, in New Zealand) that amounts to "just because."


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer lists the numerous severe economic problems facing post-Chavez Venezuela. Perhaps, for the sake of multi-party democracy in that country, the defeat of Capriles by Chavez's successor Maduro is for the best.


• Towleroad notes the success of same-sex marriage in New Zealand.


• The Volokh Conspiracy's Sasha Volokh is very unimpressed with the content of Russian school history textbooks, propagandizing on behalf of empire and minimizing state atrocities as they do.


• Window on Eurasia notes that wealthy China is starting to take an interest in the Arctic, perhaps at the expense of Russia.