[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

• Anthropology.net reacts to the discovery of Neanderthal abstract carvings and what they say about the Neanderthal mind.
• blogTO shares Toronto postcards from the 1980s and lists the five least used TTC subway stations.
• Centauri Dreams reports that potentially habitable exoplanets Gliese 667Cc has been confirmed to exist.
• Crooked Timber’s Corey Robin describes the continuing Steven Salaita affair, with another Crooked Timber post and one at Lawyers, Guns and Money providing more context.
• The Dragon’s Gaze links to a paper placing HD 10180g in its star’s habitable zone and links to another making the case for the potential habitability of exomoons.
• The Dragon’s Tales’ Will Baird is very concerned for the fate of Ukraine.
• Language Log’s Victor Mair examines the pressing question of why Hello Kitty is not a cat.
• Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at rape culture in England.
• Marginal Revolution notes that Bolivians of different classes rarely marry each other and is relatively optimistic about the country’s future.
• Spacing Toronto has a lovely picture of a track on a ride at the CNE under construction.
• Window on Eurasia notes that Kazakhstan is ready to leave the Euriasian Union to protect its independence, argues that the Ukrainian war is sparing Tatarstan and North Caucasus attention, and examines the depopulation of Pskov oblast next to the Baltic States.
• Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell notes the strengths and weaknesses of the Islamic State as described in an article: a willingness to risk death isn’t always a plus.