[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Centauri Dreams reports on the apparent rarity of exomoons of close-orbiting planets.


• The collapse of the nuclear renaissance is touched on at Crooked Timber. Is it all down to renewables now?


• Language Hat shares
  
• The outlawing of the Uygur language from the schools of Xinjiang was mentioned at Language Log. This is terrible.The anti-Semitism barely veiled in a Texas campaign against the Democratic Party, noted by Lawyers, Guns and Money, frightens me.


• The LRB Blog notes that Sylvia Plath stayed in the United Kingdom, far from home, substantially because of the NHS.


• Marginal Revolution looks at the extent to which the economy and the wealth of the South depends on slavery.


• Had Mexican-American relations gone only trivially differently, Noel Maurer suggests, Mexico could either have been much larger or substantially smaller.