[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper examining how volatiles like water get transported to nascent rocky planets in circumstellar habitable zones.


• The Dragon's Tales looks at 4th and 5th generation fighter aircraft of Japan, India, and Turkey.


• Imageo shares photos of the breaking ice on the Arctic Ocean.


• Joe. My. God. notes that Russia's anti-gay Vitaly Milonov is castigating Russia's Eurovision contestant for being polite to Conchita Wurst.


• Language Hat links to a report of a gathering of poloyglots in Berlin.


• The Numerati's Stephen Baker describes why and how he got his Wikipedia biography edited.


• Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw writes about his profound interest in stories of all kinds.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer notes that there are still no good economic explanations for the scramble for Africa.


• Spacing maps Canada's various land types.


• The Transit Toronto blog shares the TTC's explanation for yesterday's transit outage.


• Window on Eurasia shares a Tatar academic's argument that Russians are fundamentally not Europeans, much like Tatars.