[BLOG] Some Friday links

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• Centauri Dreams notes new studies suggesting the flares of red dwarf stars damage potentially habitable planets.


• The Crux notes that the wild apple is going extinct.
  
• D-Brief notes that recent high winds in Europe helped push energy prices there to negative territory.


• The Frailest Thing considers Neil Postman's thoughts on the intersection of mass media and childhood.


• Inkfish argues in favour of accidental wetlands in urban areas.
  
• Language Log looks at the trope of the repeated character in some recent Chinese advertising.


• The LRB Blog considers the costs, environmental and otherwise, to the United States' leaving the Paris climate agreement.


• Marginal Revolution wonders what assumptions about deep history the news of Homo sapiens' longer history overturn.


• The Power and the Money's Noel Maurer notes that, in the area of energy costs, mid-20th century Uruguay was worse off than New Zealand.
  
• The Russian Demographics Blog looks at polling on Russian opinions about the Russian Far East and its future.


• Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell is skeptical about Jeremy Paxman's claims about privacy in modern journalism.