I like these links. I also like posting without HTML errors--sorry!
- Acts of Minor Treason's Andrew remarks--with pictures--on how there isn't very much old Toronto at all.
- Anthropology.net reacts to a neuroscientist, one David Eagleman, who seems to argue that he human capacity for synaesthesia--briefly, the ability for people's sensory impressions to cross-connect in an unusual way--has interesting implications for human consciousness.
- Bad Astronomy reacts to the news that astronomers have found a correlation between the likelihood that a star hosts planets and that of low lithium abundance. Centauri Dreams pays attention to the same findings.
- A BCer in Toronto's Jeff Jedras considers the ongoing Romanian presidential election campaign from his position on the ground.
- John Quiggin at Crooked Timber argues that the European leaders who started the First World War are mass murderers on the scale of a Hitler or a Stalin.
- Daniel Drezner is skeptical of the idea that China will escape the nearly iron-clad law that countries of a certain income will democratize, based on China's past precedent.
- English Eclectic's Paul Halsall pronounces himself decidedly in favour of the European Union and the Lisbon Treaty.
- Everyday Sociology makes the argument that the exceptionally tight structure of military life helps create people predisposed to random violence.
- Far Outliers describes anti-Greek violence by Ottoman authorities in Thessaloniki in 1821, and quotes Niall Ferguson's suggestion that 1979, not 1989, saw the biggest break from the past with the rise of China and radical Islam.
- Global Sociology examines the arguments of Afghan woman parliamentarian Malalai Joya and her despair at the continued fundamentalism of Afghanistan's leaders and reports on findings that although women tend to live longer than men, they have a lower quality of life.
- The Grumpy Sociologist points out that the selection of Laos as host of the Southeast Asian Games makes the poor country into a field for economic competition between powerful neighbouring states for influence.
- Language Hat takes note of the ubiquity of Hungarians.
- Language Log's Mark Liberman really doesn't like the idea that differences in landscape necessarily translate into huge differences in language and meaning.
- Lawyers, Guns and Money's Sek rightly despairs for Camille Paglia's good sense.
- Erin's Lost & Found, heavy on art, features an excellent picture of me.
- Marginal Revolution hosts a discussion on whether or not the sheer size of the economic gap between many developing countries and their developed counterparts is promoting an unproductive despair on the part of the former.
- Noel Maurer reports that the fact that uranium production is tightly-linked to particular states means that there isn't any integrated, elastic, uranium market.
- Slap Upside the Head reacts to news from the United States that same-sex couples behave quite similarly to opposite-sex ones in terms of parenting and whatnot.
- Torontoist reviews Torontonian David Sax's work on the deli and its decline as related to Jewish assimilation.
- Towleroad announces that an opposite-sex couple in the United Kingdom want a gay civil partnership in order to protest the exclusion of same-sex couples from marriage. (Peter Tatchell has pronounced himself in favour of the extension of these basic rights to opposite-sex couples.
- The Yorkshire Ranter reports on Nigeria's defeat of the various Niger Delta militias demanding control of local oil reserves.
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