[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Bad Astronomy's Phil Plait notes that claims Arctic ice cover is recovering are ill-founded.


• blogTO shares some of the most notable catastrophes from Rob Ford's days coaching high school football.


• Centauri Dreams shares a new map of Triton, Neptune's moon.


• The Cranky Sociologists map the distribution of different religions and the unaffiliated around the world.


• Crooked Timber has at the old canard about Silent Spring's DDT ban killing millions with malaria.


• Discover's Crux notes how GPS location services owe their existence to relativity.


• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper examining how rocky asteroids can be detected around white dwarfs.


• The Dragon's Tales note that tuberculosis was in the Americas before Columbus.


• Eastern Approaches notes an appeal by Polish intellectuals to support Ukraine.


• The Frailest Thing's Michael Sacasas wonders what if, instead of imagining worst-case scenarios for new technologies, we imagine positive things.


• Language Hat comments on a new book on Russia in the Napoleonic Wars that mentions how Latvian was used as a code.


• Language Log notes that technology is not dehumanizing us.


• Marginal Revolution notes that the biggest split in Ukraine is between supporters of European and Eurasian integration, and notes that Putin's Russia has kickstarted a new era of global politics.


• James Nicoll reviews Heinlein's juveniles.


• Otto Pohl notes that modern Kazakhstan can trace its history directly only to the Soviet era, not to earlier states.


• Registan looks at the Chinese geopolitical concept of continentalism.


• Towleroad looks at a controversial gay club poster featuring two notable male writers kissing.


• The Volokh Conspiracy reminds readers of the Crimean annexation and doesn't think eastern Ukraine has a compelling moral case at all for secession.


• Window on Eurasia notes the economic costs to Tatarstan of remaining Russian, reports that Russian neo-Nazis are fighting in Ukraine, looks at how past actions are being seen in a more biased light, and quotes Vladimir Lukin to the effect that Russia wants Donbas to stay in Ukraine so as to prevent the country from looking to NATO.