[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Crooked Timber's Jon Mandle reflects on his experiences of a visit to Auschwitz.


• The Dragon's Tales' Will Baird notes the development of a robot that can walk like a cat.


• Eastern Approaches suggests that Croatia, set to enter the European Union, should pick up economic tips from Finland's experience in the 1990s.


• Marginal Revolution's Tyler Cowen argues convincingly that the lack of payment for sperm donors in Canada means that domestic sperm--from paid domestic sperm donors, at least--is short.


• Savage Minds considers language revival among tribal peoples in Taiwan by looking to the mixed experience of Southern Maori revivalists in New Zealand.


• The Search offers guidelines as to the digital archiving of images. (Keep them in TIFF but don't worry if they're JPEG.)


• Torontoist's Desmond Cole notes a recent protest in Toronto to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the federal government's limiting of access to healthcare to refugees.


• Towleroad reports on the GLBT components of the anti-government protests in Turkey.