[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• BlogTO notes that the old Carnegie library at Queen and Lisgar, in my old neighbourhood of West Queen West or Parkdale, is going to become a theatre centre.


• Bad Astronomy's Phil Plait is glad there isn't a star as spectacularly unstable as EZ Canis Majoris in our neighbourhood.


• Patrick Cain links to his Global News debunking of the myth that American citizens living in Canada are often wealthy expatriates.


• Centauri Dreams examines the concept of superhabitable planets, noting among other things that K-class orange dwarfs like Alpha Centauri B would be great.


• D-Brief notes the sad mechanical problems of China's Yutu moon rover.


• The Dragon's Tales observes evidence that the migratory Sea Peoples of ancient Egypt came from Europe.


• At Halfway Down the Danube, Douglas Muir writes about his experiences hiking in Kosovo, with the Prizren mountaineers club.


• Joe. My. God., Lawyers, Guns and Money, and the New APPS Blog all mourn the death of politically active folk singer Peter Seeger.


• Language Log's Victor Mair analyzes the evocative Chinese-language name of a Vancouver restaurant.


• The Numerati's Stephen Baker responds to Godwin's Law as evoking the thoughts of people who can't express themselves.


• Registan links to anthropologist Sarah Kendzior's argument that Central Asia studies, once dynamic and vital, have gone into decay as people have stopped paying attention to the region.


• Savage Minds shares Haitian-American anthropologist Gina Athena Ulysse's writing about her creative process.


• Window on Eurasia notes a report that Tajikistan's government is unhappy with Tajiks who add Russian endings ("ov", et cetera) to their names.