[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

• The Crux makes the case that, for too long, modern homo sapiens have underestimated the genius of the Neanderthals.
• D-Brief looks at the efforts of some scientists to develop brewing standards for the Moon.
• Language Hat examines different languages’ writing standards–Turkish, Greek, Armenian–in the late Ottoman Empire.
• Language Log deconstructs claims that Japanese has no language for curses.
• Marginal Revolution’s Tyler Cowen looks at the standards of truth by which Trump’s supporters are judging him.
• The NYRB Daily looks at the hollow Styrofoam aesthetics of the Trump Administration.
• Savage Minds considers the idea of personhood.
• Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell considers key mechanics of populism.
• Arnold Zwicky meditates, somewhat pornographically, on a porn star of the last decade and public sexuality.