[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

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• Bad Astronomy's Phil Plait notes that claims Arctic ice cover is recovering are ill-founded.
• blogTO shares some of the most notable catastrophes from Rob Ford's days coaching high school football.
• Centauri Dreams shares a new map of Triton, Neptune's moon.
• The Cranky Sociologists map the distribution of different religions and the unaffiliated around the world.
• Crooked Timber has at the old canard about Silent Spring's DDT ban killing millions with malaria.
• Discover's Crux notes how GPS location services owe their existence to relativity.
• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper examining how rocky asteroids can be detected around white dwarfs.
• The Dragon's Tales note that tuberculosis was in the Americas before Columbus.
• Eastern Approaches notes an appeal by Polish intellectuals to support Ukraine.
• The Frailest Thing's Michael Sacasas wonders what if, instead of imagining worst-case scenarios for new technologies, we imagine positive things.
• Language Hat comments on a new book on Russia in the Napoleonic Wars that mentions how Latvian was used as a code.
• Language Log notes that technology is not dehumanizing us.
• Marginal Revolution notes that the biggest split in Ukraine is between supporters of European and Eurasian integration, and notes that Putin's Russia has kickstarted a new era of global politics.
• James Nicoll reviews Heinlein's juveniles.
• Otto Pohl notes that modern Kazakhstan can trace its history directly only to the Soviet era, not to earlier states.
• Registan looks at the Chinese geopolitical concept of continentalism.
• Towleroad looks at a controversial gay club poster featuring two notable male writers kissing.
• The Volokh Conspiracy reminds readers of the Crimean annexation and doesn't think eastern Ukraine has a compelling moral case at all for secession.
• Window on Eurasia notes the economic costs to Tatarstan of remaining Russian, reports that Russian neo-Nazis are fighting in Ukraine, looks at how past actions are being seen in a more biased light, and quotes Vladimir Lukin to the effect that Russia wants Donbas to stay in Ukraine so as to prevent the country from looking to NATO.