[BLOG] Some Wednesday links
Jan. 25th, 2017 02:38 pm- 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.