[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO notes that a party celebrating the end of Rob Ford's term as mayor is being planned for election night at City Hall.


• Centauri Dreams notes the discovery of secondary targets for New Horizons after it passes Pluto.


• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper that looks to examine the oblateness or otherwise of some exoplanets discovered by Kepler.


• The Dragon's Tales links to one paper examining underwater archeology and links to a series debating the question of whether or not there was a human presence 30 thousand years ago at a site in Uruguay.


• Eastern Approaches reports on the aftermath of a failed claim by Radek Sikorski that Russia made a 2008 proposal on partitioning Ukraine.
  
• Joe. My. God. notes a Costa Rican survey suggesting that up to a fifth of Costa Rican police think that harassing GLBT people is OK.


• Language Hat notes the etymology of the Egyptian title of "khedive", apparently obscure for a reason.


• Language Log notes a contentious issue in Chinese translation: "rule of law" or "rule by law"?


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer looks at the aftermath of a stunt at a Serbian-Albanian football game.


• The Russian Demographics Blog considers estimates for Russian losses in Ukrainian fighing.


• Towleroad notes that Argentina has granted asylum to a Russian GLBT claimant.


• Window on Eurasia suggests that Ukrainian events have awakened Belarusian nationalism.