[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Crooked Timber's John Holbo wonders about people who are foxes and hedgehogs, following Isaiah Berlin.


• The Dragon's Gaze links to one examination of carbon and oxygen in exoplanet atmospheres and links to another noting how white dwarfs eat their compact asteroid and other debris belts.


• The Dragon's Tales notes that the dinosaurs disappeared in the Pyrenees amidst environmental catastrophe.


• Joe. My. God. notes that Liberty University is liable for helping a woman hide her child away from her lesbian partner's custody.


• Language Hat notes an apparent mistake in prose.


• Language Log examines new frontiers in negative negation.


• Languages of the World notes the role of Dante in establishing an Italian literary language.


• Marginal Revolution wonders what books contain the most wisdom per page.


• The Search notes one librarian's experience with web archiving.


• Torontoist shares photos of the Pan Am Games.


• The Volokh Conspiracy argues that genetic engineering of babies for IQ will occur as soon as the technology becomes possible.


• Window on Eurasia notes that support is growing for an enquiry into the Malaysian Airlines shootdown, notes military reform's stagnation in Russia, and looks at a Crimean Tatar meeting in Turkey.


• The Financial Times' The World notes that Spain has come out weaker of this round of Eurozone negotiations.