[NEWS] Some Wednesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Thanks to Michael for linking to a Slate photoessay drawing from years of photography of the Brooklyn neighbourhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant.


• Universe Today notes that Fomalhaut C, a dim red dwarf companion to the brighter A, has a debris disk of its own.


• io9 notes a Type Ia supernova in neighbouring galaxy M82, 12 million light-years away.


• CBC reports a recent international survey suggesting that housing across big-city Canada isn't especially affordable, and that Vancouver is worst.


• The Carthaginians actually did practice infant sacrifice, The Guardian reports.


• Conrad shared a report of anti-African racism in Delhi.


• Der Spiegel notes that France, most recently in Africa, is the only European power actively intervening anywhere. This has import for the European Union.