[BLOG] Some Friday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Centauri Dreams' Paul Gilster notes the stormy weather on brown dwarfs and takes a look at the ongoing debate on the origins of hypervelocity stars (stars travelling so quickly that they will escape the galaxy).


• Crooked Timber's John Holbo is rightly incredulous that Bill Kristol hopes the centenary of the beginning of the First World War will mark a rebirth of militarism.


• The Dragon's Tales notes a study claiming that Y-class brown dwarfs--very small and dim brown dwarfs--might be a bridge between brown dwarfs and planets.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money talks about sexism, starting from columnist James Taranto's statement that female achievement in families is responsible for male underachievement.


• New APPS Blog's Jon Cogburn writes about our generation's "inconsistent mix of ironic detachment and fear of being uncool", perhaps exemplified by the rapid 1991 transition from hair metal to grunge.


• J. Otto Pohl links to a friend's paper that talks about the failure of one effort for deported Soviet Germans living in Kazakhstan to gain an autonomous region.


• Torontoist has some good essays, one on property taxes, another on the availability of 3-D printers in the Toronto public library system soon, and another about York University's explanation as to why it was willing to accomodate a student who didn't want to interact with women.


• Window on Eurasia notes that Google will be adding support for Kazakh soon, and for other Turkic languages somewhat later.