[BLOG] Some Monday links

[rfmcdonald]

• 3 Quarks Daily notes, after the Economist, that badly-educated men have not adapted well to global trade, high technology, and feminism.


• blogTO notes that the High Park peacock roaming around Roncesvalles may have returned to its home in the zoo.


• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly provides tips for people moving to freelance writing from staff employment.


• The Cranky Sociologists shares a parody of the new movie Aloha, set in Hawaii yet dominated by whites.


• The Dragon's Gaze notes the unique astronomical biosignature of photosynthesis.


• The Dragon's Tales compares the clays of Earth and Mars.


• jsburbidge examines the concept of the literary canon.


• Language Log considers the complexities of Chinese character usage in an unacknowledged multilingual China/Taiwan space.


• Marginal Revolution considers China's heavy investments in the new Silk Road project.


• Progressive Download's John Farrell looks to a historian who suggests the world needs a new origins story based on science.


• Towleroad notes how a gay couple dissolved the adoptive relationship that once united them to become married.


• The Volokh Conspiracy notes the illicit sexuality involved among the Republicans opposed to Clinton in the 1990s.


• Window on Eurasia argues that Crimea is set to be Russified and notes the importance of Russian rural agriculture in the time of sanctions.