[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• At Anthrodendum, P. Kerim Friedman talks about the technologies he uses to help him navigate Chinese-speaking Taiwan.


• Dead Things notes new dating showing the Neanderthals of Vindija cave, in Croatia, were much older than thought.


• Far Outliers takes a brief look at the history of Temasek, the Malay polity that once thrived in Singapore.


• Hornet Stories shares photos from New York City's Afropunk festival.


• Imageo shows the scale of the devastating wildfires in the western United States, with satellite photos.


• Language Hat looks at the sort of mistakes characteristic of medieval manuscripts written in Latin and Greek.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at Trump's revocation of DACA and the harm that will face the Dreamers. I am so sorry.


• Maximos62 looks at a new book examining how biologists, including Darwin and Wallace, came to draw a borer between Asia and Australia.


• Peter Rukavina blogs about his visit to Wheatley River's Island Honey Wine Company. (Mead, it seems.)


• Strange Company takes a look at the life of violent war-mongering British eccentric Alfred Wintle.


• Window on Eurasia notes the very poor state of sex education in Russia's education system.