[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO notes the quiet death of the payphone in Toronto.


• Centauri Dreams considers Centaurs as possible impactors.


• The Dragon's Gaze notes the exotic materials likely to exist on super-Earths.


• The Dragon's Tales notes a Taiwan presidential candidate opposed to union with China.


• Far Outliers notes the origins of the Soviet ethnofederal system.


• Joe. My. God. notes the questioning of Bowe Bergdahl's Taliban captors as to whether Obama was gay.
  
• Marginal Revolution notes
  
• The Russian Demographics Blog takes a look at Russia's Turkic minorities and polities, like Tatarstan, and how the anti-Turkish policies are playing there.


• Towleroad notes the Israeli lawmakers who boycotted the swearing-in of the first out gay member of the Knesset.


• Window on Eurasia notes how Tatarstan and Sakha are continuing their relationships with the Turkic world.