[BLOG] Some Sunday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Anthropology.net reports on the recent discovery in China of two skulls a hundred thousand years old, possible remnants of a hitherto-unknown hominid species.


• blogTO reports on the boom in the Toronto tech community.


• Language Log breaks down the linguistics, specifically word lengths, of audiobooks.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money reports on the difficult position of indigenous peoples in Nicaragua.


• Marginal Revolution reports on the potential health benefits of substances in the blood of the Komodo dragon.


• The NYRB Daily reports on the modernist photography of Berenice Abbott.


• The Planetary Society Blog reports on the adventures of the Mars rovers.


• Supernova Condensate takes a quick look at Jupiter's moon, Io.


• Window on Eurasia looks at a new Russian film that transposes the superhero genre with the Soviet era, and argues that Russia is acting these days not as a constructive power but as a spoiler.