[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• 3 Quarks Daily's Misha Lepetic writes about recent representations of artificial intelligence in popular culture and what they say about us.
  
• Centauri Dreams covers thoroughly news of exoplanet KOI 314c, an Earth-mass planet discovered by Kepler that is apparently a mini-Neptune, not a rocky world, and goes on more here. The Dragon's Tales and Supernova Condensate have more.


• The Dragon's Tales quotes a Chinese economist who thinks that China shouldn't try to reduce its trade surplus now, since it's just doing what other countries set to become high-income economies have done.


• Far Outliers chronicles Polish-Ukrainian ethnic warfare during the Second World War and the thorough expulsion of Germans and German culture from Poland and Czechoslovakia afterwards.


• The discussion in the comments of the Joe. My. God. post quoting someone questioning the point of outing Aaron Schock is interesting.


• At Lawyers, Guns and Money, note is taken that Victor Davis Hanson is more than a bit off.


• Marginal Revolution notes that Iran is growing old become it is becoming rich.


• New APPS Blog makes a stirring call to embrace French essayist Michel de Montaigne as a serious philosopher.


• Otto Pohl notes Ta-Nehisi Coates' arguments about structural racism in the Soviet Union.


• Window on Eurasia quotes a Russian analyst arguing a millennial bias on the part of the West against all Slavs, with Russia being their only protector.