Wednesday assorted links


1. One hundred greatest bird names of all time.

2. The method for counting 52,019 puffins.

3. Luggage-tag switching scheme involves flights from Canada to countries where drug smuggling can carry death penalty.  Yet a third link from Jodi Ettenberg.

4. Pet Sounds at sixty years.

5. How cowboy culture remade Brazil.

6. Are India’s gdp figures OK after all? (FT)

7. Plans released for a $16 billion mile-long ship capable of carrying 80,000 people.

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