[BLOG] Some Friday links

[rfmcdonald]

• 80 Beats lets us know that China now has the fastest supercomputer in the world.


• Centauri Dreams notes that, if anything, it should be easier to form planets in binary systems like the very nearby Alpha Centauri than in planetary systems like our own with single stars.


• Eastern Approaches rightly criticizes London mayor Boris Johnson for comparing the flight of poor people from London once housing subsidies are cut to ethnic cleansing in the Balkans, as seen from a Serb nationalist perspective, no less.


• Geocurrents writes about the top 100 tourist destinations in the world, finding surprises in Turkey and southern China alongside expected tourist destinations in the Mediterranean basin, et cetera.


• Joe. My. God shares the good news that an Arkansas school official who wrote astonishingly homophobic statements on his Facebook wall has no resigned.


• The Volokh Conspiracy writes about the differences between the latest Narnia movie and C.S. Lewis' original, when the movie (not the book) notes that the Pevensey children's experience made their quotidian lives more difficult.


• Wasatch Economics reproduces an article by Michael Lind when he says that the biggest threat facing the American economy isn't Japanese-style stagnation, but rather British-style deindustrialization.


• Windows on Eurasia notes that Tatar mosques--and not only in Tatarstan--are using Tatar, not Russian, as their vehicular language.