[BLOG] Some Thursday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Anthropology.net notes a finding suggesting that Neanderthals deliberately used rocks rich in manganese dioxide to start fires.


• Centauri Dreams considers what could be false signs of life.


• The Crux notes the stone-throwing chimpanzees.


• D-Brief suggests that a fungus was the first form of life to make it onto land.


• The Dragon's Gaze notes exceptionally eccentrically-orbiting gas giant HD 7449Ab.


• The Dragon's Tales notes Russian competition to build India a new aircraft carrier.


• Language Hat notes the complexities of literary translation.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money points to a Robert Farley article imagining an Anglo-American war in the early 1920s.


• The Map Room Blog links to a map of Euroskepticism in the United Kingdom.


• Marginal Revolution tries to map European place names with the word saint in them.


• The NYRB Daily despairs for the American party system.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer notes the indirect ways in which repealing NAFTA could pay for a US-Mexican border wall.


• Spacing notes how parks can change cities.


• Arnold Zwicky considers a variety of geographic areas with indeterminate boundaries, like the South and northeast Asia.