[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• At Centauri Dreams, Paul Gilster considers the finer details of the possible habitability of extrasolar worlds, not only the recently discovered ones of Kepler-62.


• Crooked Timber's Niamh Hardiman writes about how illegal immigration in Greece is becoming a major problem for that country and for the illegal immigrants, mainly because Greece is a cul-de-sac in the middle of an economic meltdown.


• Daniel Drezner offers advice to novice Twitterers.


• Eastern Approaches considers conflicts over interpretations of history and Communism in the Czech Republic and media freedom in Bulgaria.


• Geocurrents notes that Uighur-majority districts in Xinjiang are among the poorest in China.


• Joe. My. God. notes that Folsom Street East, New York City's leather festival of note, has been cancelled.


• Language Hat notes another's ongoing blog series that criticizes the idea that all human language descends from a single ancestral language, Proto-World.


• At Lawyers, Guns and Money, Erik Loomis wonders why the explosions in Texas, product of industrial-strength negligence, got so much less press than the Boston Marathon bombings. (The commenters suggest that the ongoing intentional threat in Boston was key.)


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer notes that although Spain's population is dropping via emigration, but that the emigration isn't that much and is concentrated among recent immigrants.