[NEWS] Some Wednesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Bloomberg looks at the recent surge of Chinese investment in Southeast Asia.


• Culture.pl looks at why Nietzsche falsely claimed Polish ancestry.


• Foreign Policy suggests that this is a new age of German prominence in the West.


• The New Yorker finds Amazon's new brick-and-mortar bookstores lacking.


• The Toronto Star shares claims that learning a second language provides mental benefits.


• Universe Today notes the discovery of potentially habitable super-Earth Gliese 625 b.


• Vice's Motherboard notes how the popularization of ayahuasca-driven spirit quests has actually hurt traditional users.


• Vox notes the latest Russia-Ukraine history fight on Twitter.