[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Centauri Dreams considers the potentially habitability of planets made mostly of garnet.


• D-Brief notes a new technique that can use stem cells to regenerate teeth.


• Dangerous Minds shares photos of a man who makes sweaters of place and takes photos of himself wearing the sweater at these places.


• The Everyday Sociology Blog considers the hookup culture of universities.


• Language Hat looks at how different languages name different colours over time.


• Language Log looks at teachers of Cantonese who teach it using Mandarin grammar rules.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money examines the fake news of Muslims destroying an old church in Germany.
  
• The NYRB Daily makes the case for the importance of Black Mirror.


• Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw shares a photo and a story from his holiday trip to Denmark.


• The Russian Demographics Blog charts birth and fertility rates in the United States over the past hundred years.


• The Volokh Conspiracy takes issue with the idea that Chicago's rate is record-setting.


• Window on Eurasia warns of potential instability in Russia's Caucasian republic of Dagestan.