[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• BCer in Toronto Jeff Jedras foodblogs from different Ottawa junkets.


• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly lists 20 ways to enjoy winter. (If it comes.)


• Centauri Dreams shares the latest Pluto imagery and examines the ancient impact that created the Moon.


• Crooked Timber notes that volunteers who help refugees arriving in Greece might be criminalized.


• The Dragon's Gaze notes that some Earth-like worlds at different points in their history might be difficult to identify, and notes a SETI search looking for flashes from KIC 8462852 has turned up nothing.


• Geocurrents maps development in the Philippines.


• Marginal Revolution shares Alex Tabarrok's opinion that home ownership is overrated.


• The Planetary Society Blog's Marc Rayman notes how important light is for Dawn"s imaging of Ceres.


• pollotenchegg notes the historical patterns of ethnic change in southeast Ukraine, the Donbas standing out as especially Russian in population in language.


• The Russian Demographics Blog notes demographic changes in Chechnya.


• Transit Toronto notes that Toronto has gotten its 14th and 15th streetcars from Bombardier.


• Window on Eurasia examines possible outcomes from Tatarstan's confrontation with the Russian federal government, notes the influence of Central Asian migrants on Russian Islam, suggests Russia is over-centralized, and notes one proposal to abolish Russia's ethnic units.