[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

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• Antipope's Charlie Stross and Whatever's John Scalzi react to the Sad Puppies' shut-out at the Hugos.


• blogTO notes a poll suggesting that 85% of Torontonians think taxis are safer than Uber.


• Centauri Dreams considers the potential role comet impacts may have had on the development of life.


• Crooked Timber's Corey Robin engages with Ta-Nehisi Coates.


• The Dragon's Gaze considers ways to detect life on worlds inhabited by extremophiles and examines the impact of ultraviolet radiation on hypothetical Earth-like exoplanets.


• The Dragon's Tales is upset that the United States suggested Ukraine should not immediately respond to the intrusion of Little Green Men.


• Far Outliers notes the extreme casualty projections for an invasion of Japan in the Second World War.


• Language Hat notes the controversy over the question of who the Indo-Europeans were.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the life of a Brazilian leader of a famous naval rebellion.


• Marginal Revolution tries to start a debate on what the United States would look like if it had open borders.


• The Planetary Society Blog features a report by Marc Rayman noting the ongoing mapping of Ceres.


• Savage Minds carries an interview with anthropologist Christian Zloniski regarding export agriculture in Baja California.


• Torontoist describes the controversial visit of a Toronto journalist to the Soviet Union in 1932.


• Window on Eurasia notes that Crimea is removing Ukrainian from its education system and wonders if Belarus is moving away from Russia.