[BLOG] Some Monday links

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• Bad Astronomy shares Dawn's first picture of Ceres.


• The Crux considers whether chimpanzees should be considered people in a legal sense.


• Cody Delistraty shares 13 vintage photos of winter in early 20th century Paris.


• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper examining the current state of research into the magnetic interactions of stars with their exoplanets.


• The Dragon's Tales notes a new generation of brain sensors.


• Joe. My. God. notes that Ireland's Roman Catholic bishops are campaigning against same-sex marriage.


• Livejournaler jsburbidge ruminates on the pitfalls of misreading the past, starting from Jack Whyte's historical novels.


• Language Hat reports on the digitization of old Russian books.


• Languages of the World's Asya Perelstvaig considers what exactly the "Russian world" actually is.


• Marginal Revolution notes falling birth and fertility rates in the United States.


• Livejournaler moiraj mocks Diane Francis' claim that indigenous peoples in Australia benefit from a better land-claims settlement system than their Canadian counterparts.


• The Planetary Society Blog's Emily Lakdawalla reacts to Dawn's first picture of Ceres.


• J. Otto Pohl compares the plights of Crimean Tatars and Palestinians.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer updates us on Panamanian-Venezuelan relations.


• The Russian Demographics Blog shares a projection of the Ukrainian population forward to 2100.


• Towleroad notes how a Latvian politician destroyed her career and is now facing criminal charges by praising Nazi homophobia.


• The Volokh Conspiracy notes that the University of Virginia can't lodge a libel claim against Rolling Stone for its flawed rape report.


• Livejournaler nwhyte notes some interesting long durée patterns--in net reproduction, in family wealth, in residence, and the like--in the families whose DNA was used to identify the body of Richard III.


• Window on Eurasia notes a Russian who defines his country as an empire with rightful claims and argues about the need for non-recognition of Crimea's annexation to be finalized.