[BLOG] Some Monday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Anthropology.net reports on new evidence that Homo naledi may have used tools, buried their dead, and lived alongside Homo sapiens.
  
• Centauri Dreams remembers an abortive solar sail mission to Halley's Comet.


• Dangerous Minds shares photos of the "Apache" dancers of France.


• Cody Delistraty writes about Swedish futurist Anders Sandberg and his efforts to plan for humanity's future.
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• At the Everyday Sociology Blog, Karen Sternheimer talks about her day as a sociologist.


• Joe. My. God. notes the good news that normal young HIV patients can now expect near-normal life expectancies.


• Language Hat looks at a recent surge of interest in Italian dialects.


• Language Log looks at the phenomenon of East Asians taking English-language names.


• The LRB Blog considers the dynamics of the United Kingdom's own UDI.


• Marginal Revolution looks at the existential issues of a growing Kinshasa still disconnected from the wider world.


• Steve Munro notes that Metrolinx will now buy vehicles from France's Alstom.


• The New APPS Blog uses Foucault to look at the "thanatopolitics" of the Republicans.


• The NYRB Daily looks at Trump's constitutional crisis.


• Out There considers the issues surrounding the detection of an alien civilization less advanced than ours.


• The Planetary Society Blog looks at the United States' planetary science exploration budget.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer looks at Argentina's underrated reputation as a destination for foreign investment.


• Progressive Download shares some thinking about sexual orientation in the context of evolution.


• Peter Rukavina looks at the success of wind energy generation on the Island.


• Understanding Society takes a look at the dynamics of Rome.


• Window on Eurasia shares a lunatic Russian scheme for a partition of eastern Europe between Russia and Germany.