[BLOG] Some Monday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Antipope Charlie Stross wonders how technologically advanced a civilization could become without literacy.


• Crooked Timber notes paleocon Peter Hitchens' take on the history of England.


• The Dragon's Gaze reports on the growth of pebble-accreting planetesimals.


• Geocurrents maps Tokugawa Japan as a multi-state system, perhaps not unlike the contemporary Holy Roman Empire.


• Inkfish reports on crows given cameras which track their tool use.


• Language Hat notes some remarkable Gothic graffiti from Crimea.


• Marginal Revolution notes the very high levels of public debt in Brazil.


• The Russian Demographics Blog and Window on Eurasia wonder what will happen if Russia's future turns out not to be Belarus, but Ukraine.


• Spacing Toronto notes the time the Stanley Cup got stolen.


• Window on Eurasia notes that Russians now perceive Ukrainians as separate, looks at the hostile Russian reaction to pan-Turkic nationalism, and notes that the origins of Russia's Central Asian migrant workers have been changing.