[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• 3 Quarks Daily notes the growing Saudi-Pakistan alliance, something increasingly aimed against Syria (Pakistan is training an armed force funded by Saudi Arabia).


• The Big Picture shares 17 pictures from Ukraine.


• Centauri Dreams' Paul Gilster suggests that we now have the beginnings of a model for the formation of planets around pulsars, with debris from the supernova explosion spinning towards the pulsar and condensing into planets.


• The Dragon's Gaze links to a study suggesting that photosynthesis is possible on worlds locked into 3:2 resonances about their local sun, i.e. rotating three times on its axis for every two orbits around the sun.


• The Financial Times' World blog wonders if Venezuela might follow Ukraine.


• A Fistful of Euros' Doug Merrill notes that Ukrainian revolutionaries are just beginning the real work.


• Marginal Revolution notes the writings of an economist employed by Facebook. What does he do?


• John Moyer, still in Iceland, meditates on solitude.


• Naked Anthropologist's Laura Agustín takes issue with the term "loverboys" used to describe studies of transnational prostitution.


• The New APPS Blog considers what it means if animals feel love.


• Justin Petrone, writing about the noise surrounding the Ukrainian revolution, argues in favour of radical skepticism of both sides as likely to lead to the truth.


• Strange Maps considers the various plans for partitioning California into smaller units, including the most recent one.