[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• The Big Picture shares photos from the war in Ukraine.


• blogTO maps the distribution of young adults in Toronto.


• Crooked Timber despairs at evidence in Spike Lee's 1989 film Do the Right Thing with its (betrayed?) faith in elections.


• D-Brief examines a binary star set to become a supernova in seven hundred million years.


• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper examining the formation of icy distant super-Earths.


• The Dragon's Tales links to a paper suggesting Mars' salts formed from freezing and notes that chimpanzees apparently learn food calls from others.


• A Fistful of Euros' Alex Harrowell wonders what Russia wants in eastern Ukraine, just the Donbas or a broader sustained destabilization of Ukraine.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money calls for an end to New York City's tipped minimum wage.


• Marginal Revolution notes the complexities of Russia.


• The Planetary Society Blog notes the relationship between the formation of planets and the evolution of life thereon.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer continues to look at the mechanics of the Nicaragua Canal and notes the complexities of Grexit.


• Towleroad notes that the first same-sex couple married in Alabama is a pair of lesbian African-Americans.


• The Volokh Conspiracy worries about the freedom of the press in Argentina.