[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Crooked Timber's Daniel Davies writes about the end of his career as a financial analyst.


• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper discussing the brown dwarfs of 25 Orionis.


• The Dragon's Tales links to a paper suggesting that Uranus' moon system is still evolving, with the moon Cupid being doomed in a relatively short timescale. It also wonders if North Korea is exporting rare earths through China.


• Far Outliers notes the Ainu legacy in placenames in Japanese-settled Hokkaido.


• Languages of the World's Asya Perelstvaig examines the complexities surrounding language and dialect and nationality in the Serbo-Croatian speech community in the former Yugoslavia.


• Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw notes the terribly high death rate among Europeans in colonial Indonesia, and how drink was used to put things off.


• The Russian Demographics Blog examines the prevalence of sex-selective abortion in Armenia.


• Torontoist notes Rob Ford's many lies and/or incomprehensions about Toronto's fiscal realities.


• Towleroad suggests that one way to regularize HIV testing would be to integrate it with dentistry appointments.


• Window on Eurasia notes a water dispute on the Russian-Azerbaijan border and argues that the election of a pro-Russian cleric to the head of the Ukrainian section of the Russian Orthodox Church is dooming that church to decline.