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  • Bag News Notes' Michael Shaw touches upon the use of infrared photography to detect a hiding Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

  • The Burgh Diaspora notes the beginning of migration into Poland from western Europe, specifically of professionals fleeing southern Europe.

  • Eastern Approaches describes the pragmatic deal struck between Serbia and Kosovo, hopefully allowing both states to normalize.

  • Geocurrents' Martin Lewis blogs about regional trends in economic development in China, coastal provinces rising relative to a declining northeast and interior.

  • Marginal Revolution notes a recent study claiming that health in Cuba improved during the 1990s, as a result of the post-Soviet economic contraction and food scarcity. This is debatable.

  • Steve Munro continues his analysis of the famously irregular 29 Dufferin bus route.

  • The Volokh Conspiracy's Eugene Volokh points to a UN committee arguing that racist Thilo Sarrazin should be prosecuted on the grounds of hate speech.

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