Assorted Links

1. 26th ERSA Summer School (ht Leo Monasterio)
   
   
2. Why Has Competition to Get into Top Colleges Become Much Tougher?
   
   
3. Good tuff question
   
   
4. 11 planned cities as seen from space (HT Joao Meirelles)
   
   
5. "Why don't you come over?", a campaign by gandul.info in response to the British one called "Don't come to England"
   
   
6. U.S. overlaid on the Moon for a sense of scale
   
   
7. A 52-meter tall tribute to Oscar Niemeyer in SP
   
   
8. The state of China cities 2012/2013
   
   
9. Worldwide Twitter Activity in Real Time (via infosthetics)