[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Centauri Dreams examines circumbinary planet Kepler-1647b.


• Crooked Timber takes issue with Peter Singer's identification of boat people as queue jumpers.


• D-Brief notes the superior design of the brains of birds.


• The Dragon's Gaze considers if the James Webb Space Telescope could detect signs of life on the planets of the TRAPPIST-1 system.


• The Dragon's Tales points to more evidence for Planet Nine.


• The LRB Blog considers gay pride after the Orlando shooting.


• Marginal Revolution calls for a revival of supersonic air transport.


• The NYRB Blog argues terrorism is the wrong framing for the Orlando shooting.


• The Planetary Society Blog considers the future of the Arecibo radio telescope.


• Peter Rukavina considers what it means to leave the Island.


• The Russian Demographics Blog tracks births in Russia over the past century.


• Savage Minds considers the decolonization of anthropology.


• Strange Maps tracks political trends in the United States.


• Towleroad shares Susie Bright's thoughts about the persecution of gay venues.


• Window on Eurasia notes the commemoration of the deportations from the Baltics by the Soviet Union, reports on a Russian nationalist who thinks Ukraine's European trajectory was inevitable, and parses a distinction between "ethnic Russian" and "Russophone".