[BLOG] Some Thursday links

[rfmcdonald]

• The Dragon's Gaze examines the very complicated history of the formation of the trinary system of Fomalhaut.


• The Dragon's Tales links to a report on the study claiming to find chemical evidence of the impact that created the Moon out of moon rocks.


• Robert Farley at Lawyers, Guns and Money notes that no plausible American intervention could have prevented the fall of Mosul to ISIS.


• Marginal Revolution's Tyler Cowen notes the predictions of economists that Brazil will win the World Cup.


• Out of Ambit's Diane Duane shares a photo of people scavenging from a hundred thousand books dumped out of a bankrupt bookstore in Ireland.


• Livejournaler pollotenchegg maps fertility rates in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts.


• The Transit Toronto blog notes the arrest of a half-dozen TTC workers on charges of embezzling from their organization.


• Towleroad notes opposite-sex married but bisexual Anna Paquin's Twitter posting for pride.


• The Volokh Conspiracy's David Bernstein takes issue with the idea that Jewish Republicans are rare. (Representation is, as a consequence of their distribution.)


• Window on Eurasia links to an analyst's concern that the Donbas area of eastern Ukraine, currently seeing fighting, might end up becoming alienated from the rest of Ukraine on the model of Northern Ireland.