[BLOG] Some Sunday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Centauri Dreams considers if small planets could be lurking in the Kuiper belt.


• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper suggesting that mini-Neptunes in close orbit of red dwarf suns could become super-Earths through photo-evaporation.


• The Dragon's Tales considers if life on Europa could be detected through spectroscopic observation of bacteria.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money warns that the oceans are in a poor state.


• Marginal Revolution wonders why the Swiss central bank broke the franc's peg with the Euro.


• Livejournaler moiraj reacts to the collapse of Target Canada.


• The Planetary Society Blog's Emily Lakdawalla notes the detection from orbit of what appears to be the lost Beagle 2 probe, on the surface of Mars.


• pollotenchegg notes the reorientation in Donetsk oblast from Russia.


• The Volokh Conspiracy notes tha the prospects for same-sex marriage in front of the US Supreme Court look good.


• Window on Eurasia notes anti-Russian unrest in Armenia prompted by the murder of an Armenian family by a Russian soldier, and speculates that the collapse of the ruble will allow Chinese influence to spread into Central Asia.