[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

• blogTO covered, with abundant photos, last night’s substantial rainstorm. (126 millimetres, I was given to understand by CBC this morning.)
• Crooked Timber celebrates its tenth anniversary.
• Geocurrents’ Asya Pereltsvaig maps the origins of servicement in the American military. It turns out that saying that they come from red states is an oversimplification (among other things).
• GNXP notes that the “aquatic ape” theory of human origins is accurate at least inasmuch as human populations, unlike chimpanzee populations, aren’t divided into separate subspecies by major rivers. (We can swim.)
• Marginal Revolution starts a comment thread speculating as to how democracy might disappear from the world.
• The Power and the Money’s Noel Maurer notes that Argentina isn’t going to follow the American precedent and start electing judges.
• Charlie Stross wonders about the future of democracy inasmuch as party politics is declining while a meta Ruling Party takes over.
• Science blogger Supernova Condensate is also going to blog about his experience as a scientist working in Japan.
• Towleroad’s coverage of the news that two American cancer patients also infected with HIV were apparently cured of the latter via a bone marrow transplant is correct in noting that this provides clues for a cure.
• Window on Eurasia suggests that terrorist threats against the Sochi Olympics in Russia by Chechens will lead to a tightening of Russian control over the North Caucasus.