[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO shares vintage postcard images of Toronto in the 1970s.


• Centauri Dreams notes a proposed method for detecting exomoons, by detecting the disruptions that they cause in their parent worlds' magnetic fields on the pattern of Io's disruption of Jupiter's magnetic fields.


• The Dragon's Tales notes a new paper suggesting that Enceladus' geysers are caused by its tides with Saturn.


• The Everyday Sociology Blog looks at what sociology has to say about sibling relationships.


• Joe. My. God. notes that some American conservstives think gays should oppose immigration because immigrants bring tuberculosis which kills HIV-positive people.


• Languages of the World's Asya Perelstvaig demonstrates that there is no evidence at all that Yiddish descends from the Turkic Khazarian language, noting instead arguments for a Germanic origin.


• The Russian Demographics Blog maps population change in Estonia over 1989-2011, noting that there has been population growth only in the metropolitan areas of three Estonian cities with Russian-majority Narva not seeing growth.


• At Savage Minds, Uzma Z. Rizvi thinks about racism in the United States over time.


• The Search interviews online anthropologist Robert Kozinets.


• Spacing Toronto notes that Toronto saw the invention of the first arcade game.


• Strange Maps shares an interactive infographic tracing the cross-border electricity trade in the European Union.


• Towleroad notes a fatal gay-bashing in San Francisco and the near-murder of an Azerbaijani teen by parents who wanted to burn him alive.


• The Volokh Conspiracy notes an American court ruling refusing to enforce a Moroccan court judgement on the grounds of the Moroccan legal system's corruption.


• Window on Eurasia suggests that support for federalism is spreading in Russia, notes one analyst's argument that Russia can become a beacon of reactionary conservative ideology, and suggests that Russia is trying to nudge outside powers out of the Armenia-Azerbaijan dispute.