[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• The Big Picture shares photos of Iran 25 years after the death of Ayatollah Khomeini.


• Crooked Timber continues its seminar on the ethics of open borders.
D-Brief notes the discovery of two new classes of planets not found in our solar system, Earth-mass gas dwarfs and rocky super-Earths.

• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper suggesting that red dwarfs' solar wind would significantly heat exoplanets in their circumstellar habitable zones and links to another paper concluded that Kepler-10c is a giant rocky world.


• The Dragon's Tales notes drama in Canada regarding the possibility or not of a F-35 purchase.


• The Financial Times' The World blog wonders about the future of the monarchy in a securely democratic Spain.


• Geocurrents' Martin Lewis concludes that poverty isn't clearly the cause of the Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria, notwithstanding the relative poverty of the Muslim north.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money is rightly upset that Confederate general and defender of slavery Robert E. Lee is positioned in a new book as an American patriot.


• The New APPS Blog considers the issues associated with democracy in the European Union after the recent elections.


• Savage Minds' P. Kerim Friedman considers the shooting ratio of ethnography. How much raw material do anthropologists need to collect to come up with something compelling?


• Window on Eurasia traces the genealogy of Eurasianism in the Soviet era.