[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

• Ryan Anderson at Anthrodendum takes a look at how the threat posed to coastal properties by sea level rise reveals much about how human beings assign value.
• A BCer in Toronto’s Jeff Jedras writes about the food at a Newfoundlander party in Ottawa.
• D-Brief considers how past ice ages might have been caused by the shifting poles.
• Karen Sternheimer at the Everyday Sociology Blog takes a look at the work of Michelle Pannor Silver, looking at how retirement can influence the identities of individuals.
• Far Outliers notes that, in its first major wars, Japan treated prisoners of war well.
• JSTOR Daily examines a paper that takes a look at how the X-Men have achieved such resonance in pop culture, such power as symbols of minorities’ persecution and survival.
• Lawyers, Guns and Money is critical of the effusive press coverage of Mitt Romney, new Republican senator.
• Geoffrey Pullum at Lingua Franca shares, for other English speakers, a lexicon of specialized words from the United Kingdom regarding Brexit.
• At the LRB Blog, Hyo Yoon Kang takes a look at a series of legal hearings investigating the possibility of assigning legal responsibility for global warming to “carbon majors” like big oil.
• Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution shares his argument that the history of the 21st century United States might look like that of the 19th century, with progress despite political disarray.
• The NYR Daily shares the arguments of scholar of populism, Jan-Werner Müller, looking at what Cold War liberalism has to say now.
• Peter Rukavina shares the story of his two visits to relatives around the Croatian city of Kutina, with photos.
• Starts With A Bang’s Ethan Siegel looks at how astronomers solved the mystery of the “Zone of Avoidance”, the portions of space blotted out by the dense plane of our galaxy.
• Window on Eurasia reports from a conference on minority languages where speakers complain about Russian government pressures against their languages.
• Arnold Zwicky takes a look at tea, starting with tea-time aphorisms and going further afield.