[BLOG] Some Wednesday links
- Anthropology.net notes evidence that injured Neanderthals were cared for by their kin.
- James Bow shares a photo of Ottawa at night and considers the growing city with its greenbelt.
- Centauri Dreams reacts to the immense discoveries surrounding GW170817.
- Crooked Timber considers the vexed nature of the phrase “Judeo-Christian.”
- Bruce Dorminey notes an American government study suggesting a North Korean EMP attack could cause collapse.
- Hornet Stories reports that Russian pop singer Zelimkhan Bakaev has been murdered in Chechnya as part of the anti-gay purges.
- Language Hat looks at lunfardo, the Italian-inflicted argot of Buenos Aires.
- Lawyers, Guns and Money notes that, with Trump undermining the US, the prospects of China’s rise to define the new world order are looking good.
- The NYR Daily looks at reports of significant electoral fraud in Kenya.
- Personal Reflections’ Jim Belshaw looks at the continuing Australian reaction to China’s Belt and Road project.
- Roads and Kingdoms reports from Sichuan’s peppercorn fields at harvest time.
- Drew Rowsome responds to Andrew Pyper’s new novel, The Only Child.
- Strange Company looks at the mysterious 1900 woman of New Yorker Kathryn Scharn.
- Strange Maps looks at an ingenious, if flawed, map of the Berlin metro dating from the 1920s.
- Peter Watts considers the question of individual identity over time. What changes, what stays the same?
- Window on Eurasia notes that a shift from their native languages to Russian will not end minority ethnic identities.
Written by Randy McDonald
October 25, 2017 at 12:45 pm
Posted in Assorted, Demographics, Economics, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Science, Social Sciences
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