[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO notes that the Union-Pearson Express train line is going to be quite expensive, perhaps unworkably so.


• Centauri Dreams looks at the imminent flyby by Pluto of the New Horizons probe.


• Will Baird of The Dragon's Tales reacts with upset to the confirmation that the CIA engaged in torture.


• Geocurrents' Martin Lewis looks at the controversies surrounding performances of an Indonesian popular music genre, dangdut, which features sexualized female performers.


• Marginal Revolution talks about which economies around the world are the most undervalued. (Sri Lanka comes up.)


• The Planetary Society Blog's Emily Lakdawalla talks about China's plans for space, including a Mars mission.


• Spacing Toronto talks about the day in 1950 when the sun above Toronto turned blue.


• Bruce Sterling shares a Washington Post article noting how forests have regrown across Europe in the past century.


• Torontoist notes that the city of Toronto has sought to secure heritage status for El Mocambo.


• Towleroad observes that the Irish Catholic Church has severed its links to a Northern Irish adoption agency for being GLBT-inclusive.


• Window on Eurasia notes a Russian expert who says that Ukrainian decentralization will be impossible at present and suggests that a new Munich arrangement over Ukraine is unlikely owing to Western distrust.