[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• 3 Quarks Daily hosts an essay by one Akim Reinhardt talking about the history of the Oglala Sioux.


• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly shares her personal credo.


• Crooked Timber notes the various concerns of different societies in the past over migration.


• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper suggesting that O and B-class supergiants do not destroy their protoplanetary discs.


• The Dragon's Tales notes the French development of hypersonic weapons.


• The Everyday Sociology Blog considers the question of infamy. To what extent should people responsible for horrors be studied?


• Geocurrents maps some innovative Wikipedia maps of world religion.


• Language Hat reports on new Chinese borrowings from Japanese.


• Language Log notes the apparently strong preference for pinyin input in writing Chinese electronically.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money considers the complexity of colonialism in naming a sports team in Oregon the "Pioneers".


• Marginal Revolution describes how one Turkish economist disproved his father-in-law's involvement in an alleged coup conspiracy.


• The New APPS Blog looks at the philosophy job market.


• Strange Maps shares some beautiful watercolour maps of the world's divides.


• Supernova Condensate points out how very small our civilization's electronic footprint is.


• Towleroad links to one defense of Danny Pintauro's coming-out as HIV-positive.


• Transit Toronto notes the threatened TTC lawsuit against Bombardier and notes the refurbishing of some older streetcars.


• The Volokh Conspiracy reports on why a Pennsylvania court refused to recognize a Saudi custody order on the grounds of its inconsistency with American public policy.


• Window on Eurasia notes that Russia does not own the Russian language, looks at Armenia's intake of Syrian refugees, suggests the Russian intervention in Syria is not supported by Russia's neighbours, and looks at how Belarus is using Lithuanian and Latvian ports instead of Kaliningrad.