[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

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• Anthropology.net notes evidence that injured Neanderthals were cared for by their kin.


• James Bow shares a photo of Ottawa at night and considers the growing city with its greenbelt.


• Centauri Dreams reacts to the immense discoveries surrounding GW170817.


• Crooked Timber considers the vexed nature of the phrase "Judeo-Christian."


• Bruce Dorminey notes an American government study suggesting a North Korean EMP attack could cause collapse.


• Hornet Stories reports that Russian pop singer Zelimkhan Bakaev has been murdered in Chechnya as part of the anti-gay purges.


• Language Hat looks at lunfardo, the Italian-inflicted argot of Buenos Aires.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes that, with Trump undermining the US, the prospects of China's rise to define the new world order are looking good.


• The NYR Daily looks at reports of significant electoral fraud in Kenya.


• Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw looks at the continuing Australian reaction to China's Belt and Road project.


• Roads and Kingdoms reports from Sichuan's peppercorn fields at harvest time.


• Drew Rowsome responds to Andrew Pyper's new novel, The Only Child.


• Strange Company looks at the mysterious 1900 murder of New Yorker Kathryn Scharn.


• Strange Maps looks at an ingenious, if flawed, map of the Berlin metro dating from the 1920s.


• Peter Watts considers the question of individual identity over time. What changes, what stays the same?


• Window on Eurasia notes that a shift from their native languages to Russian will not end minority ethnic identities.