[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Beyond the Beyond links to an interview with Darran Anderson, a writer of cartographic fiction.


• Centauri Dreams notes that 2028 will be a time when microlensing can b used to study the area of Alpha Centauri A.


• The Crux engages with the question of whether or not an astronaut's corpse could seed life on another planet.


• The Dragon's Gaze links to a study that gathers together signals for planetary companions orbiting nearby stars.


• Joe. My. God. notes that the only gay bar in Portland, Maine, is set to close.


• Language Log notes the proliferation of Chinese characters and notes that a parrot could not be called to the stand in Kuwait.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes that the last time the Chicago Cubs won, Germany was an empire.


• The Map Room Blog notes the discovery of an ancient stone map on the Danish island of Bornholm.


• The Planetary Society Blog examines some of the New Horizons findings of Pluto.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer argues that Venezuela is now a dictatorship.


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• Window on Eurasia notes a Russian cleric's call for the children of ethnically mixed marriages in Tatarstan to be legally identified as Russians.