[BLOG] Some Monday links

[rfmcdonald]

• At Alpha Sources, Claus Vistesen links to his podcast wherein he argues that too much blame is being placed on the IMF.


• blogTO notes a documentary on a CBC prop warehouse.


• City of Brass celebrates the Fourth of July and the end of Ramadan.


• Crooked Timber is scathing about the IMF, the European Union, and Syriza.


• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper that studies Gliese 229B, one of the nearest and first-found brown dwarfs.


• The Dragon's Tales notes that half of the banded iron formations extant on Earth are products of microbes.


• Geocurrents notes how non-inevitable the Saudi state was within its current borders.


• Language Log looks at the use of Sinitic characters in modern Korea.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money tackles pea guacamole.


• Marginal Revolution shares photos of an abandoned Soviet space shuttle.


• Towleroad notes that Cuba has managed to halt mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphillis.


• Window on Eurasia notes the anti-Ukrainian slur Khokhol's unacceptability, looks at controversy over national textbooks in Tatarstan, and examines a dying Finnish-language magazine in Karelia.


• The Financial Times' The World warns of radical Islam among Albanians.