[BLOG] Some Thursday links

[rfmcdonald]

• At The Dragon's Tales, Will Baird reports that Sweden and Finland, spooked by Crimea, are now contemplating NATO membership.


• On a very different note, The Dragon's Tales also notes that Saturn's icy moon Enceladus, with a Europa-like ocean underneath, is perfectly suited for a space mission.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes that workers are dying on World Cup construction sites in Brazil as well as in Qatar.


• At the Planetary Society Blog, Emily Lakdawalla notes the very recent discovery of Kuiper belt object 2013 FY27, big enough to be a dwarf planet.


• The Volokh Conspiracy links to a profile of the blog and its blogger in Tablet magazine.


• Window on Eurasia has a series of links. One argues that Russia's weakness not its strength motivated the move into Crimea, another argues that a Russian invasion of Ukraine would be a catastrophe and that the Russian government knows it, another observes Belarus' alienation from federation with Russia.