[BLOG] Some Friday links

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• D-Brief notes that American populations are much more genetically mixed than people would have it.


• The Dragon's Gaze links to one paper examining how the Square Kilometre Array could be used to detect extraterrestrial intelligence, and to another paper noting that atmospheric freeze-out on tidally locked planets could be more common than previously thought.


• The Dragon's Tales looks at Chinese outsourcing and notes Russian discontent with the Ukrainian purchase of American nuclear fuel.


• Far Outliers notes the inertia of post-war Bosnia.


• Joe. My. God. shares Dan Savage's call to prosecute the parents of Leelah Alcorn for driving her to suicide.


• Language Hat notes a new argument that the language of the Tartessians of ancient Spain was actually Celtic.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes thinks that things are very bad for lawyers.


• Marginal Revolution bets Greece will leave the Eurozone and notes French economist Thomas Piketty's refusal of the French Legion of Honor.


• Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw notes likens immigration and refugee restrictions to a Great Wall, unflatteringly.


• The Planetary Society Blog's Emily Lakdawalla notes that 2015 will be a year when dwarf planets Ceres and Pluto finally get visited.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer argues that the Syrian government is coming to the end of its rope and notes Venezuela's belated efforts to control air-based cocaine traficking by Mexican planes.


• The Volokh Conspiracy looks at the implications of a recent American court case finding against North Korea.


• Window on Eurasia argues that an extended Putin government in Russia will make things worse, looks at the visibility of the Chuvash language in Chuvashia, and notes warnings by a Crimean Tatar leader that Russia should return Crimea to Ukraine else risk catastrophe.


• Whatever's John Scalzi marks the ten-year anniversary of his Old Man's War.