[BLOG] Some Thursday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO notes a project aimed at crowdsourcing money to buy sleeping bags for Toronto's homeless.


• Gerry Canavan despairs at the corporatization of the University of Wisconsin.


• Centauri Dreams takes another look at Kepler-444.


• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper suggesting no correlation between the sizes of Kuiper belts and exoplanets.


• The Dragon's Tales notes the crash of an armed Chinese drone in Nigeria.


• Joe. My. God. and Towleroad both note Andrew Sullivan's retirement from blogging.


• The Planetary Society Blog argues rivalries between private space companies is all good for the future of space travel.


• Livejournaler pollotenchegg tracks Ukrainian military deaths over the past year.


• Registan is not worried by Russia's new military doctrine.


• The Volokh Conspiracy reports on an Islamic civil law tribunal in Texas.


• Window on Eurasia has different reports on Putin, one claiming he's not a rational actor, the other suggesting that Western governments should try to undermine him.