[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Centauri Dreams notes evidence that pitted terrain, as found on Ceres and Vesta, indicates subsurface ice.


• Dead Things links to evidence suggesting insomnia and poor sleep are not disorders, but rather evolutionary inheritances that were useful in the past.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the critical human role in the ongoing sixth extinction.


• Language Hat links to speculation that the Afroasiatic language family has its origins in the Natufian Levant.


• The LRB Blog reports on a fascinating French show about espionage, Le Bureau des légendes.


• Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw reports on an important speech by Malcolm Turnbull on politics and Australia's Liberal Party.


• The Planetary Society Blog shares Marc Rayman's report on the latest discoveries of Dawn at Ceres.


• Spacing' Sean Ruthven has a review of a beautiful book on the Sea Ranch, a northern California estate.


• Back in May, Septembre Anderson argued at Torontoist that rather than embracing diversity, Canadian media was more willing to wither.


• Window on Eurasia shares an argument suggesting Baltic Russians would not follow the Donbas into revolt because the Baltics are much better off economically.