[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

• Centauri Dreams looks at evidence that Ceres’ Occator Crater, an apparent cryovolcano, may have been recently active.
• Crooked Timber’s John Quiggin wonders what would have happened had Kerensky accepted the German Reichstag’s proposal in 1917.
• Dangerous Minds looks at some fun that employees at a bookstore in France got up to with book covers.
• Cody Delistraty describes F. Scott Fitzgerald’s utter failure to fit into Hollywood.
• A Fistful of Euros hosts Alex Harrowell’s blog post taking a look at recent history from a perspective of rising populism.
• io9 reports on a proposal from the Chinese city of Lanzhou to set up a water pipeline connecting it to Siberia’s Lake Baikal.
• Imageo notes a recent expedition by Norwegian scientists aiming at examining the winter ice.
• Strange Maps links to an amazing graphic mapping the lexical distances between Europe’s languages.
• Window on Eurasia argues that Russia is on the verge of a new era of population decline, and shares a perhaps alarming perspective on the growth of Muslim populations in Russia.