[BLOG] Some Thursday links

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• Antipope Charlie Stross u>makes his case for Scottish independence.


• blogTO visits the new HMV Underground venue.


• The Cranky Sociologists examine the militarization of the American university campus.


• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper analyzing the temperature of chilly nearby brown dwarf WISE 0855-0714.


• The Dragon's Tales looks at the very confusing KIC 2856960 system.


• The Everyday Sociology Blog applies sociological theory to on-campus sexual assaults.


• The Frailest Thing looks at some rather remarkable upcoming technologies.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money as well as The Dragon's Tales notes that the population of blue whales off of the California coast has recovered to its previous level of 2200 individuals, a small population as the first blog notes.


• Marginal Revolution looks at the run against Scottish stocks and the like in the week before the referendum.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer would still bet against Scottish independence.


• The Russian Demographics Blog notes the amusing mistake made by mappers who gave Sakhalin island to Japan.


• The Search features a post made by a web archivist.


• Strange Maps looks at the changing geographical concentrations of genius in Europe.


• Towleroad shares some of the Provincetown photographs of Emil Cohen.


• The Volokh Conspiracy considers the ethics and the legal practicalities of Scottish separatism.


• Window on Eurasia notes the emergent Iranian-Russian alliance, observes that the Dalai Lama's attack on Putin has placed his followers in Russia's Kalmykia in a different place, and wonders if Tuva provides precedents for Russia's satellites.


• The Financial Times' The World notes how very different is public opinion and public policy in France and Germany.