[BLOG] Some Saturday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Anthropology net reports on the unveiling of Little Foot, a 3.6 million year old australopithecus skeleton.


• The Big Picture unveiled remarkable photos of the ongoing wildfires in southern California.


• Centauri Dreams shares a suggestion of Jim Benford suggesting we are not transmitting loudly enough to be picked up across interstellar distances.


• D-Brief notes the discovery of genes which appear to have some relationship to sexual orientation variation among human men.


• Daily JSTOR notes how DNA evidence can lead to false convictions.


• The Dragon's Tales shares some links about extrasolar visitor 'Oumuamua.


Joe. My. God. notes that an opposite-sex couple in Australia who promised to divorce on the advent of marriage equality have opted not to. Surprise, surprise.

• The Map Room Blog shares some maps examining the possibility of an electoral upset in the Alabama Senate race.


• Marginal Revolution points out the extent to which Chicago was a huge boomtown in the 19th century.


• The NYR Daily shares the proletarian art--literally--of Chaïm Soutine.


• Out There takes a look at how our ill treatment of gorillas bodes ill for our treatment of hypothetical less advanced aliens.


• Window on Eurasia notes that Moscow, without restrictions on urban migration, is starting to develop ethnic neighbourhoods. (I think this natural, and fundamentally a good thing, unlike the source.)


• Arnold Zwicky shares a report of a 1971 jam session of John Lennon with Frank Zappa.