[BLOG] Some Friday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Centauri Dreams notes a study of exoplanet environments suggests that Earth-like planets with extreme axial tilts like Uranus could remain habitable, so long as they have sufficiently large and deep oceans.


• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper suggesting that exoplanet Fomalhaut b is actually a misidentified dust cloud from a Kuiper belt collision.


• The Dragon's Tales links to a paper using robotic models to test theories of vertebrate evolution.


• Joe. My. God. notes that a Chinese court has ordered the payment of damages to a victim of ex-gay torture.


• Language Log notes that Korean has no equivalent to the expression "nuts".


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer argues that Sony should not have pulled The Interview.


• Towelroad notes an anti-gay preacher who stormed the Chilean national assembly in protest.


• Window on Eurasia notes a Russian video game that gives points for shooting Ukrainian soldiers and civilians, examines Mongols' use of multiple scripts, and suggests Russia is unwilling to start a war with NATO and that Putin thinks partnership with the West is impossible.