[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

• 3 Quarks Daily considers quantitative measures of linguistic diversity.
• Bad Astronomy and the Planetary Society Weblog are both skeptical of the rumours of a 2015 SETI detection, while Marginal Revolution does not reach a conclusion.
• blogTO shares an image of the condo tower that will rise above the former site of the World’s Biggest Bookstore.
• Centauri Dreams reports on preliminary discussions of Stardot.
• Dangerous Minds shares video of a 1982 Depeche Mode performance on Swedish television.
• The Dragon’s Gaze considers the question of galactic habitability.
• The Everyday Sociology Blog writes about the role of bullying in the enforcement of gender.
• Language Log notes how bigoted language can infect an AI.
• The Map Room Blog shares a map charting water flows in Germany.
• Personal Reflections’ Jim Belshaw considers revelations that Greek statues were painted.
• Noel Maurer wonders why Peña and Trump re meeting.
• Window on Eurasia considers the import of the late Soviet “parade of sovereignties”.