[BLOG] Some Friday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Centauri Dreams maps the known worlds of the 55 Cancri A system.


• Crasstalk makes the argument that jerks predominate worrisomely among the initial demographics of Google Glass users.


• D-Brief notes that an unusually bright supernova was magnified by an intervening galaxy.


• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper examining the discovery of the first methane brown dwarf, Gliese 229B, written by one of the discoverers.


• The Dragon's Tales notes that Catalonia is pressing ahead on its advisory independence referendum.


• Eastern Approaches visits eastern Ukraine.


• Marginal Revolution speculates that immigration has diminished productivity and hence economic growth per capita in New Zealand.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer engages with that paper dating pronounced Argentine economic decline to the mid-1970s on.


• Torontoist recommended that Gene Jones leave Toronto Community Housing, and notes that today he was fired.


• Window on Eurasia links to an essayist who argues that the whole concept of a "Russian world", as applied to the Russian state, is simply amorphous.