[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

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• Crooked Timber's John Quiggin considers imaginable ways to get carbon dioxide in the atmosphere down to 350 ppm by 2100.


• Karen Sternheimer at the Everyday Sociology Blog considers the tenuous nature of the upper-middle class in America. How is downwards mobility to be avoided, even here?


• Imageo shows the growth of a sunspot larger than the Earth.


• Language Hat shares the story of how Manchu script came to be.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes that the working poor need protection from arbitrary and always-changing work schedules.


• The LRB Blog notes the geopolitical scramble at the Horn of Africa, starting with bases in Djibouti.


• The NYR Daily engages with an intriguing exhibition about the relationship between Henry James and paintings, and painting.


• Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw engages with the classic 1937 Australian film, Lovers and Luggers.


• Noel Maurer at The Power and the Money notes that one benefit of the trend towards greater informality in fashion is that time has been freed up, especially for women.


• Peter Rukavina writes about his new Instagram account, hosting his various sketches.


• Unicorn Booty notes the continuing problems with Germany's adoption laws for same-sex couples.


• The Volokh Conspiracy looks at how the Polish president saved the independence of Poland's courts with his veto.


• Window on Eurasia suggests Russia is trying to mobilize the ethnic Russians of Lithuania, finally.