[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

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• Beyond the Beyond's Bruce Sterling shares a United Nations reaction to a United States human rights report.


• The Dragon's Tales observes one model for the climate of the ancient Earth and notes that, on the basis of ancient DNA, ancient Europeans were not uniformly white.


• The Dragon's Gaze notes studies of the galactic habitable zones of the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies.


• Eastern Approaches reacts to the recent Crimean vote.


• Geocurrents' Asya Perelstvaig shares a post about Irish cuisine over time.


• Joe. My. God. notes the recent visit paid by American evangelist Michael Brown to Peru to try to spread anti-gay ideology.


• At Lawyers, Guns and Money, the argument is made that the Democratic Party really has shifted left.


• James Nicoll, at More Words, Deeper Hole, notes the racism of environmentalist Garret Hardin.


• The New APPS Blog tackles the question of the extent to which the anti-Semitism and Naziism of Heidegger informed his philosophy.


• The Volokh Conspiracy is unimpressed by the Crimean referendum.


• Window on Eurasia shares the warning of Andrei Ilarionov that Russia plans on annexing and dominating far more of Ukraine than Crimea.