[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO notes that Kensington Market staple Zimmerman's Discount is set to close.


• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper documenting the discovery of exoplanets orbiting a red giant star.


• The Dragon's Tales reports on China's J-31 stealth fighter.


• Language Hat links to what seems to be a charming Chinese memoir of reading.


• Language Log's Victor Mair claims that the peculiarities of Chinese script explain high levels of myopia in East Asia.


• Marginal Revolution starts a discussion on the latitude-income correlation.


• The Russian Demographics Blog notes that Ukraine is gingerly starting on the path of European integration, away from Russia.


• Savage Minds reports on the aftermath of the Italian trial of seismologists for allegedly underestimating the L'Aquila earthquake's effects.


• Strange Maps shares a counterfactual map imagining what Africa would look like uncolonized by Europe.


• Torontoist makes the case for anti-suicide platform barriers on the TTC.


• Window on Eurasia suggests that Russian regional policy is dominated not by economic rationales but by the need to shore up vulnerable peripheries.