[BLOG] Some Thursday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Bad Astronomy describes the massive flare of young red dwarf DG Canes Venaticorum.


• blogTO gives advice as to what people out for the day at Yonge and Eglinton should do.


• Centauri Dreams provides estimates as to the time it would take to develop technologies for starflight.


• The Dragon's Gaze links to an interesting-sounding paper on SETI and evolution that is unfortunately hidden behind a paywall.


• Eastern Approaches observes the celebrations of Vladimir Putin's 62nd birthday.


• Far Outliers looks at early baseball in the late 19th century Pacific territories of the US, including California.


• A Fistful of Euros wonders if Japan is back in recession.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money analyzes income on education and income in the United States in 1973-2013 to find that, apparently, education becomes less valuable as more people acquire it.


• Peter Rukavina describes how random encounters a decade old have put him on track for an interesting experience, mapping electricity usage and production.


• Spacing Toronto looks at the neighbourhood-specifics of the millennial demographic.


• Strange Maps looks at the number of ways proposed to divide up England.


• Window on Eurasia notes the plight of Ukrainian refugees in Russia, suggests that Russia is trying to compensate for its economic weakness with grand politics, and notes some eccentric people in Tatarstan who want Tatar to be written in Arabic script.