[PHOTO] Waiting for the 329 Dufferin bus, at Dufferin station

[PHOTO] Nine photos from the Hall of Human Origins (@amnh)

The displays at the AMNH's Anne and Bernard Spitzer Hall of Human Origins are amazing, doing a good job of placing Homo sapiens in the much deeper and broader context of our primate kin. This includes Neanderthals, of course, as well as the newly-discovered Homo floresiensis. Who else will be added to our family tree, I wonder, as science progresses?

John Noble Wilford's 2007 review of the hall for The New York Times does a good job of capturing the glory of this hall.

[BLOG] Some Sunday links

• James Bow makes the case for inexpensive regional bus transit in southern Ontario, beyond and between the major cities.


• D-Brief explains why Pluto's Gate, a poisonous cave of classical Anatolia believed to be a portal to the netherworld, is the way it is.


• The Dragon's Tales takes a look at the plethora of initiatives for self-driving cars and the consequences of these for the world.


• Far Outliers takes a look at how Persia, despite enormous devastation, managed to eventual thrive under the Mongols, even assimilating them.


• JSTOR Daily notes the connections between North American nuclear tests and the rise of modern environmentalism.


• Language Hat looks at Linda Watson, a woman on the Isle of Man who has became the hub of a global network of researchers devoted to deciphering unreadable handwriting.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money makes the argument that the Russian hacks were only as effective as they were because of terrible journalism in the United States.


• The NYR Daily takes a look at an often-overlooked collaboration in the 1960s between New York poet Frank O'Hara and Italian artist Mario Schifano.


• Towleroad takes a look at out gay pop music star Troye Sivan.


• Window on Eurasia makes the believable contention that Putin believes in his propaganda, or at least acts as if he does, in Ukraine for instance.