[BLOG] Some Thursday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Centauri Dreams reports on an ingenious proposal for a sample-return mission to Jupiter's moons of Europa and Io.


• Crooked Timber is critical of George Packer's criticism of Wikileaks et al.


• The Dragon's Gaze reports on the discovery of giant planets orbiting non-main sequence giant stars.


• The Dragon's Tales links to a news report of a symposium on the Russian economy. Can state banks substitute for foreign investors, and should they?


• Amitai Etzioni comes out in favour of exploration and colonization of the oceans.


• Far Outliers recounts a Japanese massacre of civilians in Papua New Guinea in the Second World War.


• The Financial Times' The World blog doesn't think the European Parliament's candidate for that body's presidency should be accepted.


• The point is made at Lawyers, Guns and Money that "friendzone" is terrible not least because it reduces all relationships with women to sex.


• Torontoist notes that if the Liberals won the Ontario election they'd give lots of nice things to Toronto, but can the province afford it?