[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

• Centauri Dreams examines circumbinary planet Kepler-1647b.
• Crooked Timber takes issue with Peter Singer’s identification of boat people as queue jumpers.
• D-Brief notes the superior design of the brains of birds.
• The Dragon’s Gaze considers if the James Webb Space Telescope could detect signs of life on the planets of the TRAPPIST-1 system.
• The Dragon’s Tales points to more evidence for Planet Nine.
• The LRB Blog considers gay pride after the Orlando shooting.
• Marginal Revolution calls for a revival of supersonic air transport.
• The NYRB Blog argues terrorism is the wrong framing for the Orlando shooting.
• The Planetary Society Blog considers the future of the Arecibo radio telescope.
• Peter Rukavina considers what it means to leave the Island.
• The Russian Demographics Blog tracks births in Russia over the past century.
• Savage Minds considers the decolonization of anthropology.
• Strange Maps tracks political trends in the United States.
• Towleroad shares Susie Bright’s thoughts about the persecution of gay venues.
• Window on Eurasia notes the commemoration of the deportations from the Baltics by the Soviet Union, reports on a Russian nationalist who thinks Ukraine’s European trajectory was inevitable, and parses a distinction between “ethnic Russian” and “Russophone”.