[BLOG] Some Thursday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Centauri Dreams looks at the oddly tilted circumstellar disk of HD 142527.


• The Crux notes a study suggesting that, where women are rare, men are less promiscuous.


• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper documenting the Spitzer telescope's deep observations of Vega, Fomalhaut, and Epsilon Eridani, looking for planets and not finding signs of Epsilon Eridani b.


• The Dragon's Tales links to a paper documenting maize consumption in the pre-Hispanic Andes.


• Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw reflects on the economics of Uber.


• The Russian Demographics Blog links to a presentation on demographic data from Crimea.


• Savage Minds looks at the fine balance in ethnographic writing between theory and data.


• Speed River Journal's Van Waffle considers whether there is such a thing as being too clean.


• Strange Maps examines the tutulemma. What is it? Go there to find out.


• Towleroad argues for more sympathy for gay men married to straight women, as in the recent TLC show.


• The Volokh Conspiracy notes that in Canada, terms of religious marriage contracts which violate secular law can't stand.


• Nicholas Whyte has more on the inking of Edward Heath in 1972.


• Window on Eurasia notes that talk of "traditional values" always relates to contemporary issues, argues that Russian propaganda in Belarus is alienating locals, and wonders if the North Caucasus will accept closer rule from Moscow in exchange for economic development.