[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• At Anthropology.net, Kambiz Kamrani notes evidence that Australopithecus africanus suffered the same sorts of dental issues as modern humans.


• Architectuul considers, in the specific context of Portugal, a project by architects seeking to create new vehicles and new designs to enable protest.


• Bad Astronomy's Phil Plait looks at HD 34445, a Sun-like star somewhat older than our own that has two gas giants within its circumstellar habitable zone. Could these worlds have moons which could support life?


• James Bow celebrates Osgoode as Gold, the next installment in the Toronto Comics anthology of local stories.


• At Crooked Timber, Henry Farrell in the wake of Italian elections revisits the idea of post-democratic politics, of elections which cannot change things.


• D-Brief notes that monkeys given ayahuasca seem to have been thereby cured of their depression. Are there implications for humans, here?


• Dangerous Minds notes the facekini, apparently a popular accessory for Chinese beach-goers.


• Imageo notes the shocking scale of snowpack decline in the western United States, something with long-term consequences for water supplies.


• JSTOR Daily notes a paper suggesting that the cultivation of coffee does not harm--perhaps more accurately, need not harm--biodiversity.


• Robert Farley at Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the potential of the United States to start to extricate itself from the ongoing catastrophe in Yemen.


• The NYR Daily features an interview with photographer Dominique Nabokov about her photos of living rooms.


• Drew Rowsome writes a mostly-positive review of the new drama Rise, set around a high school performance of Spring Awakening. If only the lead, the drama teacher behind the production, was not straight-washed.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel makes the case that there are only three major types of planets, Terran and Neptunian and Jovian.


• Towleroad notes the awkward coming out of actor Lee Pace.


• Worthwhile Canadian Initiative suggests one way to try to limit the proliferation of guns would be to engineer in planned obsolescence, at least ensuring turnover.


• Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell U>notes that one of his suggestions, ensuring that different national governments should have access to independent surveillance satellites allowing them to accurately evaluate situations on the ground, is in fact being taken up.