[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• The Boston Globe's The Big Picture shares photos of the Paris anti-terrorist rallies.


• blogTO shares five books put out by Toronto-area artists.


• Crooked Timber's Corey Robin notes the international ideological tumult around the American civil war.


• D-Brief talks about some neat facts about Eta Carinae.


• The Dragon's Gaze reports on a recent study of the HR 8799 planetary system.


• The Dragon's Tales reports on the Chinese Chang'e probe's observations of nearby Earth-crossing asteroid Toutatis.


• Joe. My. God. notes how a Hasidic paper photoshopped out images of female world leaders.


• Languages of the World looks at the influences of Novgorod's dialect and Old Church Slavonic on Russian.


• Livejournaler pollotenchegg looks at ethnicity and politics in Soviet Ukraine and Belarus.


• Savage Minds provides organizational advice for ethnographers who are writing large projects.


• Window on Eurasia notes Kaliningrad separatism, wonders about the loyalties of Central Asian volunteers in the Russian military, and fears for the future of Russia under its cynical leadership.