[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

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• James Bow really likes the new Hunger Games movie, Catching Fire. One thing he thinks it does very well is show people caught up in an oppressive system.


• The Dragon's Tales notes that the European Space Agency is facing huge cost overruns with its Ariane 6 rocket.


• io9 shares a chart showing the top 20 metropolitan areas of the United States over time.


• Joe. My. God. observes that seniors who have been staking out tables at a McDonald's in New York City as a place to socialize have agreed to be more considerate.


• Language Log's Victor Mair comments upon a picture of a Taiwanese subway advertisement that makes use of three different scripts.


• Marginal Revolution's Tyler Cowen likes Will Wilkinson's argument about how liberalism is ultimately incompatible with the security state.


• Registan guest blogger Dillorom Abdulloeva writes about domestic violence in Uzbekistan.


• Steve Munro has an open thread about the different ways to travel between Toronto and New York City. What's quickest?


• Supernova Condensate examines the concept of superhabitable planets.


• The Volokh Conspiracy's Ilya Somin argues (after others) that immigration can be a way for people to exercise political freedom, by leaving unjust states.


• Torontoist examines a report on youth violence.


• Towleroad shares the news of the new Spanish cardinal, who thinks that homosexuality is a medically correctible defect.