[BLOG] Some Thursday links

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• Crooked Timber considers the BMI.


• Daniel Drezner wonders if Barack Obama's apparent lack of intimate relationships with other world leaders might be a problem.


• The Dragon's Tales notes that the symbiosis that started off photosynthesis took off only 900 million years ago.


• Eastern Approaches notes the terribly high death toll on Polish roads.


• A Fistful of Euros' Edward Hugh examines the Greek economy. Grexit might be possible.


• At Lawyers, Guns and Money, Erik Loomis celebrates the 150th anniversary of the state of West Virginia.


• Marginal Revolution woners if, in the aftermath of the ERT television fiasco, Greece might be about to snap.


• A Registan essay suggests Central Asia may still be important if only because the Chinese are interested in it.


• Savage Minds considers the problems of anthropology. Why aren't anthropologists trying to make their field more relevant? The answers aren't flattering.


• Towleroad covers ex-gay movement Exodus' dissolution and an apology by its leader. That's something, surely, but is it enough?


• Window on Eurasia notes that a lack of trust in Russian society might explain popular sympathies towards authoritarianism and xenophobia.