[BLOG] Some Thursday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Bad Astronomy and The Dragon's Gaze each note WD 1145+017, a white dwarf caught eating its planets.


• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper speculating that Jupiter ejected a Neptune-sized planet early in our solar system's history.


• Languages of the World considers the use of grammar to gauge the relatedness of languages.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the catastrophe that is the United States' law school system.


• Marginal Revolution notes the de-Sinification of Taiwan, as measured by the tearing down of statues.


• The Power and the Money is critical of Vox's war coverage, noting particularly Syria.
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• pollotenchegg maps the sources of migrants to five major Ukrainian cities.


• Window on Eurasia notes that Russia is sending Chechen conscripts to Crimea.