[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• From last month, Charlie Stross imagined how the Laundry of his ongoing fiction series would have reacted to Boris Johnson as their superior.


• The Big Picture shares photos of winning Olympians.


• blogTO celebrates the Leslie Street Spit and south Etobicoke.


• Centauri Dreams notes a study of some of the smallest and most planet-like brown dwarfs.


• The Dragon's Tales considers the possibilities of relatively recent supernovas affecting Earth.


• Far Outliers looks at the fur trapper culture of the American west in the early 19th century.


• The Map Room Blog links to a study of the Brexit vote in maps.


• Marginal Revolution's Tyler Cowen links to two columns, one on the end of economic miracles and one on what Danish-Americans do better than Danes.


• The Planetary Society Blog notes Russia's plan to drop the number of its astronauts on the International Space Station.


• Peter Rukavina wonders who are the 25 subscribers to The New Yorker on the Island.


• Savage Minds has a couple of posts noting the way the skills of anthropology can be made to apply outside the discipline.


• Window on Eurasia looks at Russia's interest in non-citizens in the Baltic States.