[BLOG] Some Monday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO notes that the supersonic Concorde actually paid visits to Toronto.


• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper examining planetary migration in stellar binaries.


• Eastern Approaches is critical of the referenda in eastern Ukraine.


• The Financial Times's World blog notes a French dilemma: does it sell warships to Russia now in this time of economic austerty? Does it dare not to?


• Joe. My. God. notes the victory of Conchita Wurst in Eurovision, and Towleroad comments on Russian displeasure.


• The Language Log's Geoffrey Pullum links to, and comments upon the recent Economist map showing how ludicrous it is to establish language areas as countries.


• The New APPS Blog notes how problematic it is to suggest that genetic differences explain everything.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer warns that, at the current rate, Ukraine's violence will reach a level of civil war in December.


• Savage Minds investigates the branding of anthropology.


• Speed River Journal's Van Waffle describes the rose-breasted grosbeak.


• Towleroad notes that religious freedom is reserved only for conservative Christians.


• Torontoist provides a biography of John Bayne Maclean, a man who in the late 19th century lay the foundation for a publishing empire including MacLean's.


• Window on Eurasia links to an argument that federalization in eastern Ukraine would lead to disintegration.


• Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell discusses Colorado River water politics on the US-Mexico border.