[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO lists ten quirky facts about the Annex.


• Centauri Dreams notes that exoplanet 55 Cancri e has been detected from the ground.


• The Dragon's Gaze notes that the proportion of metals in an emergent solar system can have significant consequences for gas giant formation.


• The Dragon's Tales reports Nigerian interest in buying the new Sino-Pakistani JF-17 fighter.


• Far Outliers looks at how Yunnan became Chinese and Muslim all at once.


• Joe. My. God. notes that tests of sexual orientation can't be applied to GLBT refugee claimants and celebrates the continuing decline of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in New York City.


• Marginal Revolution notes the interestingly and differently gendered impact of technological unemployment for men and women.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer does not think the new Kurdish oil deal will be viable.


• Savage Minds looks at African-American writer Zora Neale Hurston, and how her works reflect a knowledge of the people.


• Spacing reviews the intriguing-sounding book Derrida for Architects.


• Torontoist notes John Tory's swearing-in as mayor.


• Understanding Society looks at the sociology of urban black America.


• The Financial Times' The World notes the reasons for rivalry and non-alliance between Russia's Putin and Turkey's Erdogan.


• Peter Watts is disappointed with the movie Interstellar.


• Window on Eurasia observes Kazakhstani concern with Russian television, looks at a Siberian town that has received Ukrainian war casualties, and suggests NATO has deterred Russia in the Baltic States.