[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Bad Astronomy's Phil Plait notes the continuing maps and naming of the Pluto system.


• Centauri Dreams considers one method to detect photosynthesis on Earth-like worlds of red dwarf stars.


• D-Brief notes the discovery of Octlantis, a permanent community of octopi located off the coast of Australia.


• The Dragon's Gaze notes Earth-like world can co-exist with a Jovian in a circumstellar habitable zone.


• Hornet Stories notes that Morrissey is now in Twitter. (This will not go well.


• Language Log notes the kanji tattoo of one American neo-Nazi.


• The LRB Blog notes how the English town of Tewksbury is still recovering from massive flooding a decade later.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the improbable life of Barry Sadler, he of "The Ballad of the Green Berets".


• The Map Room Blog shares this terrifying map examining the rain footprint of Hurricane Irma.


• Spacing reviews a fascinating dual biography of architects Frank Lloyd Wright and Philip Johnson.


• Window on Eurasia notes an call to restore to maps the old Chinese name for former Chinese Tuva, Uryankhai.