[BLOG] Some Friday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Bad Astronomy notes the astoundingly successful imaging of the nascent HL Tauri system and its young planetary system.


• Centauri Dreams briefly notes some of the challenges of SETI, notably the possibility of very different life and intelligence.


• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper examining how exoplanetary systems are structured mathematically.


• Eastern Approaches notes political turmoil in Georgia.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money mocks Bank of Canada governor Stephen Peloz's proposal that the unemployed should work for free.


• John Moyer notes that the understanding of poverty in popular culture in North America is off. Poor people do not own chalets on the lakeside, as in one rom-com.


• Torontoist notes that the North by Northeast music festival will be setting up shopping on the grounds of the substantially empty MaRS research complex near Queen's Park.


• Window on Eurasia notes Crimean Tatar controversies in Russian life and looks at the effect of migration to Moscow.