[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• 3 Quarks Daily asks whether parenthood is morally respectable.


• blogTO has vintage photos of Toronto's neighbourhood of Corktown.


• Centauri Dreams notes that a small moon may be condensing out of Saturn's Ring A.


• The Dragon's Gaze notes evidence that close-orbiting "hot Jupiters" influence their stars.


• The Dragon's Tales notes continuing progress in teasing out evidence of Neandertal ancestry from current populations.


• Joe. My. God. notes that some Muslim cab drivers in Cleveland refuse to drive cabs with signs advertising the upc9oming Gay Games.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money takes on the minor scandal of Ayaan Hirsi Ali's non-receipt of a symbolic degree from Brandeis University.


• Marginal Revolution's Tyler Cowen seems unduly skeptical about Norway's program of buying books by local authors for libraries, so as to subsidize literary production.


• New APPS Blog contrasts the open citizenship of the Roman Republic with the closed citizenship of the Greek city-states, with Carthage being somewhere in between.


• Towleroad explores continuing controversy around the use of Truvada as an alternative to condoms in HIV/AIDS prevention.


• Transit Toronto notes the closing of several streets, notably Church Street, in downtown Toronto on the occasion of former Canadian finance minister Jim Flaherty's funeral.


• Window on Eurasia notes that contemporary Russians like their country's open egress to the world and wouldn't be pleased by transit restrictions, and observes that ethnic Russians in Estonia seem to be mobilizing against Russian annexation.