[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• James Bow links to some things he wrote over the past summer.


• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly argues journalists are just trying to do their jobs.


• Centauri Dreams looks at some unusual orbits suited for space missions.


• Crooked Timber suggests Bitcoin is literally a waste of energy.


• The Dragon's Gaze talks about using machine learning to discover exoplanets.


• The Dragon's Tales shares pictures of Neanderthal art, talks about Elon Musk's plan for terraforming Mars, notes Lukashenko does not want a Russian base in Belarus, and reports on the stabilization of the front line in Donbas.


• Language Hat notes false etymologies of some Russian words as indigenous.


• Languages of the World suggests there is a close link between genetics and language.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the extent to which Jamaica has suffered because of colonialism, and examines the relationship of domestic work with slavery.


• Marginal Revolution notes that women in Japan have surpassed women in the United States re: workforce participation.


• Otto Pohl links to online publications on Russian Germans, and on Crimean Tatars.


• The Russian Demographics Blog looks at nostalgia in Belarus for the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.


• Transit Toronto notes that the TTC is installing bike repair stations at some of its stations.


• Savage Minds considers reasons anthropologists should be concerned with the security of their fieldwork and other data.


• Window on Eurasia suggests Ukraine could split back into Russia's sphere of influence if it is not careful, notes the possible strength of autonomist sentiment in Tatarstan, looks at opposition in Belarus to a new Russian base while suggesting Putin is building Belarusian nationalism.