[BLOG] Some Monday links

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• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly asks her readers what work means to them.


• Centauri Dreams considers Saturn's A ring.


• Crooked Timber examines a mid-19th century horror story.


• The Dragon's Gaze reports on the circumstellar disks of supergiants in the Magellanic Clouds and on TW Hydrae.


• The Dragon's Tales reports on the Donbas war.


• The Everyday Sociology Blog looks at the interactions between science fiction and social media.


• Geocurrents looks at Argentina's north-south economic divide and examines controversial energy policies.


• Joe. My. God. and Towleroad react to Kim Davis' claims.


• Language Hat considers spelling reform.


• Language Log explains Obama's strange Chinese nickname.


• Languages of the World notes controversies over Spanish pronunciations.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes bootleg Soviet liquor in the Afghanistan war.


• Marginal Revolution Looks at China's surprisingly mixed experience of the 1930s and notes China's weak growth prospects.


• pollotenchegg maps language and identity in southeastern Ukraine in 1926 and finds continuities with the present.


• Strange Maps depicts the distribution of refugees across Europe.


• Towleroad notes the success of Truvada in preventing HIV infection.


• The Volokh Conspiracy notes how people can claim religious exemptions on the job.


• Window on Eurasia notes the solidarity of Belarusian soccer fans with Ukraine, notes the vulnerabiliy of Belarus to Russia, examines controversy over the Rail Baltica project, and wonders if the Donbas war will be to Russia what the Afghanistan war was to the Soviet Union.


• Zero Geography celebrates the publication of a new book.