[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO reports on the Union Station Holiday Market.


• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly writes about how she has fled toxic environments.


• Centauri Dreams considers the next generation of observational astronomy with Alpha Centauri in mind.


• The Dragon's Gaze looks at how foreseeeable advances may mean that Proxima Centauri b's atmosphere could soon by studied for indirect signs of life.


• Far Outliers notes how, in the dying ways of the War of American Independence, British forces were setting slaves free.


• Language Log shares Chinese science fiction writer Ken Liu's thoughts about the Chinese language and Chinese literature.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money warns about the potential threat posed to indigenous peoples in the United States by the Trump Administration.


• The LRB Blog considers the likely fates of Italy after Renzi.


• The Planetary Society Blog describes the impending launch of a solar sail craft into orbit.


• Savage Minds considers ways in which the different subfields of anthropology can more profitably interact, looking at scholarship and politics both.


• The Volokh Conspiracy argues that the American left should make the Trump Administration cause to advocate for a renewed federalism.


• Arnold Zwicky writes about the art of being camp and its selective deployments.