[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• The Big Picture shares photos of a Shanghai neighbourhood that refuses to sell out to developers.

James Bow rates California rail.

• Centauri Dreams looks at the large dwarf planet 2007 OR10.


• Dangerous Minds notes a campaign by a 9/11 conspiracy theorist to raise funds to buy an airplane and a building.


• The Dragon's Gaze looks at the Kepler-223 system.


• Language Hat looks at an astonishingly thorough German-led effort to publish a dictionary of Latin.


• The NYRB Daily assesses the Iran nuclear deal.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer considers Brazil and argues that any treachery in Sykes-Picot was less in the deal and more in the assumptions behind it.


• Transit Toronto notes the return of GO Transit's seasonal trains to Niagara.


• Window on Eurasia notes Moscow's refusal to allow Circassians a memorial march.