[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Centauri Dreams looks at the latest findings from repurposed Kepler.


• The Dragon's Gaze examines the stars of the apparently most habitable exoplanets found by Kepler and speculates as to the impact of stellar cosmic rays on the habitability of worlds in red dwarf systems.


• The Dragon's Tales examines the differences between carbon emissions from different Indonesian fires.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes how black pain has been ignored at least as far back as the end of slavery, when black families tried to reunite.


• Marginal Revolution notes North Korean incomprehension of American motives.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer applauds the Mexican soda tax.


• Towleroad notes crime in the United Kingdom visited on users of Grindr.


• Window on Eurasia suggests that the good bits of the 1990s are underestimated by many Russians and warns that Kadyrov's appropriation of North Caucasian traditions risks encouraging Islamism.