[BLOG] Some Saturday links

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• Centauri Dreams examines a close-encounter solar probe.


• Writing at The Dragon's Tales, Will Baird has advice for Ukraine's future. (Integrate into the EU, get Western help, avoid conflict in Crimea.)


• The Dragon's Gaze notes that signs of oxygen in a planetary atmosphere alone aren't sure signs of life.


• Far Outliers notes that the dense jungle of Melanesia's island of New Britain was a great equalizer in combat.


• Geocurrents' Asya Perelstvaig has it with sloppy journalism in connections between Siberian and North American languages.


• Joe. My. God. notes that at least some evangelical Christians are accepting that Fred Phelps of the Westboro Baptist Church is dead since it might make their own homophobia seem better.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money corrects a hostile Crooked Timber post on Katy Perry.


• pollotenchegg maps population change in Ukraine by province since independence. The west and centre experienced stability, even growth; the rest of the country, well.


• Torontoist profiles an interesting-sounding mural commemorating Japanese history in Canada and Toronto on Queen Street West.


• The Volokh Conspiracy introduces readers to Erik Jager's Blood Royal, a reconstruction of a medieval murder investigation in Paris.


• Window on Eurasia argues that Russia now lacks the European option of Ukraine.