[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Dangerous Minds looks at the oddly sexual imagery of zeppelins entering their births.


• The Dragon's Gaze notes a paper looking at ways to detect Earth-like exomoons.


• Imageo notes unusual melting of the Greenland icecap.


• Language Log shares an extended argument against Chinese characters.


• The Map Room Blog notes the hundredth anniversary of the Sykes-Picot agreement to partition the Ottoman Empire.


• The NYRB Daily notes authoritarianism in Uganda.


• Noel Maurer looks at the problem with San Francisco's real estate markets.


• Towleroad follows RuPaul's argument that drag can never be mainstreamed, by its very nature.


• Window on Eurasia notes that a flourishing Ukraine will not be itself restore the Donbas republics to it.