[BLOG] Some Friday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Anthropology.net notes the study of ice man Otzi's gut flora.


• blogTO shares photos of different Toronto intersections a century ago.


• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly considers the virtues of rest.


• Centauri Dreams considers how we date stars.


• The Dragon's Gaze considers the fates of exoplanets in untable circumbinary orbits.


• The Dragon's Tales notes China's construction of a second, indigenous, aircraft carrier.


• Geocurrents maps real estate prices in California.


• Kieran Healy notes an odd checkerboard of land ownership in Nevada.


• Languages of the World notes a study suggesting that one never truly completely forgets one's first language.


• Language Log notes the snark directed at the Oregon militiamen.


• The Map Room maps thawing in the global Arctic.


• Marginal Revolution suggests one way in which religion is good for the poor.


• The Planetary Society Blog notes an exciting proposal for a Europa lander.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer does not think the 2016 American presidential election will necessarily change much, not compared to 2012.


• Peter Rukavina shares the results of his family's use of a water metre.


• The Russian Demographics Blog maps the distribution of Germans in Soviet Ukraine circa 1926.


• Towleroad looks at syphilis in the male gay/bi community.


• Window on Eurasia notes the alienation of Donbas, looks at the decline of Russia-linked churches in Ukraine and a proposal to shift the date of Christmas, and wonders about Tatarstan.