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[BLOG] Some Friday links

  • Bad Astronomy notes the astoundingly successful imaging of the nascent HL Tauri system and its young planetary system.
  • Centauri Dreams briefly notes some of the challenges of SETI, notably the possibility of very different life and intelligence.
  • The Dragon’s Gaze links to a paper examining how exoplanetary systems are structured mathematically.
  • Eastern Approaches notes political turmoil in Georgia.
  • Lawyers, Guns and Money mocks Bank of Canada governor Stephen Peloz’s proposal that the unemployed should work for free.
  • John Moyer notes that the understanding of poverty in popular culture in North America is off. Poor people do not own chalets on the lakeside, as in one rom-com.
  • Torontoist notes that the North by Northeast music festival will be setting up shopping on the grounds of the substantially empty MaRS research complex near Queen’s Park.
  • Window on Eurasia notes Crimean Tatar controversies in Russian life and looks at the effect of migration to Moscow.