[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

• Bad Astronomy notes that some Ukrainian astronomers have insulted Putin by naming a star after him.
• blogTO notes on the park front that the bandmembers of Rush will be honoured with a park in their own name in their own neighbourhood, and turns to the discussion about the
• Broadside Blog’s Caitlin Kelly asks readers if they can describe their job in five words.
• Joe. My. God. links to a new Australian study suggesting the children of same-sex couples might turn out better than the children of traditional family structures.
• Language Hat links to an interesting speculation of Victor Mair’s, to the effect that all languages include at least a thousand basic concepts, suggesting this might reflect something about the human mind.
• Language Log notes garbled language about the greenhouse effect on Earth and Mars.
• Marginal Revolution suggests that, based on a study, the Chinese language has the lowest percentage of borrowed words of any major language.
• Personal Reflection’s Jim Belshaw notes, as a white Australian, problems with being involved in the struggles of Aborigines.
• Savage Minds notes the use of archeology in Israel to justify the displacement of Palestinians.
• Towleroad examines how a picture of a gay male couple with their newborn child has gone viral.
• The Volokh Conspiracy’s Will Baude shared the voices of some Americans critical of the Declaration of Independence. (Frederick Douglass’ issues were well-founded.)
• Window on Eurasia notes the exile of another Crimean Tatar from his Russian-annexed homeland and observes a call for less education in languages other than Russian that might hit worldly Russians as badly as it would ethnic minorities.