Jan 29, 2015 15:05
- blogTO notes a project aimed at crowdsourcing money to buy sleeping bags for Toronto's homeless.
- Gerry Canavan despairs at the corporatization of the University of Wisconsin.
- Centauri Dreams takes another look at Kepler-444.
- The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper suggesting no correlation between the sizes of Kuiper belts and exoplanets.
- The Dragon's Tales notes the crash of an armed Chinese drone in Nigeria.
- Joe. My. God. and Towleroad both note Andrew Sullivan's retirement from blogging.
- The Planetary Society Blog argues rivalries between private space companies is all good for the future of space travel.
- Livejournaler pollotenchegg tracks Ukrainian military deaths over the past year.
- Registan is not worried by Russia's new military doctrine.
- The Volokh Conspiracy reports on an Islamic civil law tribunal in Texas.
- Window on Eurasia has different reports on Putin, one claiming he's not a rational actor, the other suggesting that Western governments should try to undermine him.
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