[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• io9 notes that apparently circumbinary planets and their moons--planets orbiting two stars which themselves closely orbit each other--might be better-suited to life than planets orbiting single stars.


• Centauri Dreams' Paul Gilster reacts to Karl Schroeder's Lockstep, an imagining of a far future where slower-than-light travel is compensated for by hibernation technology.


• The Dragon's Gaze links to Kevin Luhman's discovery paper for nearby brown dwarf WISE J085510.83-071442.5.


• A Fistful of Euros reports on the Ukrainian release of intercepted communications between the Russian ambassador and separatists.


• Mathew Ingram describes the role played by blogger Eliot Higgins in, through his sterling research, is undermining traditional models of journalism.


• Language Log's Victor Mair reports on the linguistic diversity within greater Tibet.


• Marginal Revolution's Tyler Cowen predicts that Russia will undermine the Ukrainian government to the point that the entire country will align with Russia, not just fragments.


• John Moyer makes the case for reading Beowulf. (It's like Die Hard!)


• The New APPS Blog notes that some Fox affiliates seem to be cutting oddly to commercials whenever the new Cosmos mentions human evolution.


• Otto Pohl notes the Soviet Mennonite writers of the 1930s.


• Savage Minds starts a discussion (through Alex Posecznick) about the ways in which anthropologists resemble hipsters.


• Window on Eurasia links to a few article, one describing the current events as a delayed reaction to the Soviet split of 1991, another noting the de-Ukrainianization of Crimean schools, another noting Crimea's potential for instability, another observing persecution of religious minorities including Ukrainian Catholics in Crimea, and noting separatism among the Karakalpak of western Uzbekistan.