[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

• Centauri Dreams hosts a speculative essay by one Adam Crowl imagining how life could endure for eons beyond the death of stars in an aging universe.
• The Cranky Sociologists’s SocProf studies the interaction between national identity and team sports in an era of globalization and migration.
• The Dragon’s Gaze links to a paper analyzing the connection between a star’s metallicity and the likelihood of it hosting giant planets.
• The Dragon’s Tales links to a paper suggesting that increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by itself lengthens the growing season, irrespective of warming.
• Eastern Approaches looks at the scandal in Poland following the sharing of Polish foreign minister Radek Sikorski’s impolitic words about NATO and the American alliance.
• The Financial Times‘s The World blog wonders what the jeering of a female politician by her male peers means about gender equity in Japan.
• Language Hat looks at the languages used in soccer.
• Personal Approaches’ Jim Belshaw deplores the imprisonment of Australian journalist Peter Greste in Egypt.
• At the Planetary Science Blog, Bill Dunford celebrates the many achievements of the Cassini probe at Saturn.
• Van Waffle of the Speed River Journal writes about the return of bullfrogs to his local lake this year, in the context of issues for amphibians generally.
• Torontoist features trans male Alex Abramovich’s writings about the personal and broader importance of pride.