[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

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• Gerry Canavan produces his own compendium of interesting links.


• Centauri Dreams speculates about the colours indicative of extraterrestrial life, and ecologies.


• Crooked Timber takes a look at Northern Ireland and the legacies of past violence.


• The Dragon's Tales reports on a hominid fossil that may indicate a much greater diversity in our ancestral gene pool than we thought.


• A Fistful of Euros' Edward Hugh wonders when the European Central Bank will start to taper interest rates.


• The Frailest Thing warns that the promises of tech giants to free people from the shackles of the past should be seen critically.


• On St. Patrick's Day, Joe. My. God. and Michael in Norfolk both note the extent to which attitudes towards GLBT people in Ireland have changed.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money wonders about the good sense of going off of anti-depressants.


• Marginal Revolution's Tyler Cowen proclaims Scarborough to be one of the world's best food cities.


• Savage Minds makes the case for anthropologists to aid the post-cyclone people of Vanuatu.


• Spacing interviews the NDP's Thomas Mulcair on urban issues.


• The Volokh Conspiracy's David Bernstein is unhappy at the consequences for Israel of Netanyahu's reelection, while Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at income disparities in Israel.


• Window on Eurasia argues that high inequality and low social mobility in Russia will doom the country, notes the potential for water-driven conflict in Central Asia, and notes Russian interest in acquiring more slots of Muslim pilgrims after Crimea's annexation.