[BLOG] Some Monday links

[rfmcdonald]

• The Dragon's Gase shares a paper examining the ultraviolet output of the two Sun-like stars at Alpha Centauri.


• The Dragon's Tales notes that shale formations might be good places to store nuclear waste.


• Far Outliers looks at the scale of North Korea's economic collapse in the 1990s.


• The Frailest Thing considers the ethics of technological artifacts.


• Language Hat considers the etymology and the pronunciation of "Odradek", used as a last name in a Franz Kafka story.


• Languages of the World debunks an argument that the Basque language is related to the West African language of Dogon.


• Language Log celebrates the appearance of a split infinitive in the pages of the Economist.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the 150th anniversary, on Saturday the 29th, of the massacre of Native Americans in Colorado at Sand Creek.


• Marginal Revolution suggests that two years of sanctions could lead to a fiscal crisis in Russia.


• Steve Munro is unimpressed by the integration of the Presto regional transit card on the Spadina streetcar.


• Progressive Download's John Farrell notes an interesting book by two Jesuits about space science and extraterrestrial life.


• The Russian Demographics Blog tracks trends in life expectancy in Russia and other countries.


• Registan considers what has happened in the past year in Ukraine.


• Torontoist notes the Art Shoppe, a high-end furniture retailer that recently moved from Yonge and Eglinton.


• Towleroad notes an attack on a Russian lawyer defending a gay rights activist and observes an early same-sex marriage attempt in early 1970s Texas.


• Transit Toronto notes the steady expansion of WiFi in the Toronto subway system.


• The Volokh Conspiracy suggests, based on eyewitness testimony, that the Michael Brown shooting might have been defensible.


• Window on Eurasia suggests Russia could lose Belarus and looks at the etymology of the ethnonym "Tatar".