[BLOG] Some Monday blog links

[rfmcdonald]

• Bag News Notes' Michael Shaw documents in photographs the docking of the Freedom Tower's spire with the building.


• The Dragon's Tales links to a paper analyzing the extent to which increased atmospheric carbon dioxide compensate for a planet's relatively dimmer, or more distant, sun.


• Daniel Drezner approves of Obama's attempt to lead public opinion by pointing out that there are a lot of good things going on in Mexico.


• Eastern Approaches notes that Polish prime minister Donald Tusk is encountering serious conflict within his Civic Platform party between social liberals and conservatives.


• The Everyday Sociology Blog's Sally Roskoff notes that correlation is not causation, starting with an amusing graphic purporting to illustrate the connection between falling rates of Internet Explorer browser usage and falling murder rates.


• Marginal Revolution's Tyler Cowen starts a discussion about which athletes and entertainers are more likely to come out that others.


• The New APPS Blog's Helen De Cruz argues that there are proportionally many more female academics in Turkey than (for instance) Belgium because, among other things, the modern tradition of women working in academia is strongly implanted and female academics can easily acquire cheap household labour.


• Open the Future's Jamais Cascio talks about the fuzzy now. If transported backwards or forwards in time, how long would it take for an observer to pick up on the many small and large changes?


• Understanding Future's Daniel Little introduces people to some discussions on the future of Detroit.


• Window on Eurasia's Paul Goble notes a Russian analyst claiming that the Russian elite has definitively accepted the independence of the Baltic States in a way that it hasn't that of the other former Soviet republics.


• Alex Harrowell does not think that Labour need go out of its way to try to attract UKIP voters to its left-wing economic policies, inasmuch as the only change that Labour could make to attract these UKIP voters is become more bigoted.