[BLOG] Some Wednesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• Kambiz Kamrani at Anthropology.net notes that the more Neanderthal DNA gets sequenced, the more we know of this population's history.


• Anthro{dendum} takes a look at anthropologists who use their knowledge and their access to other cultures for purposes of espionage.


• Crooked Timber tackles the question of immigration from another angle: do states have the authority to control it, for starters?


• Dangerous Minds shares a fun video imagining Netflix as it might have existed in 1995.


• The Everyday Sociology Blog considers how the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico is an instance of American state failure.


• The Frailest Thing's L.M. Sacasas considers is vows to abandon Facebook are akin to a modern-day vow of poverty.


• JSTOR Daily looks at Queer Eye for the Straight Guy and why it still matters.


• Language Log considers the naming practices of new elements like Nihonium.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money suggests that, based on the stagnation of average incomes in the US as GDP has growth, capitalism can be said to have failed.


• Lingua Franca considers the origin of the phrase "bad actor."


• Marginal Revolution links to a paper suggesting that the American opioid epidemic is not simply driven by economic factors.


• The NYR Daily considers how Poland's new history laws do poor service to a very complicated past.


• Personal Reflections' Jim Belshaw has an interesting post examining the settlement of Australisa's inland "Channel Country" by cattle stations, chains to allow herds to migrate following the weather.


• The Planetary Science Blog's Emily Lakdawalla takes a look at the latest science on famously volcanic Io.


• Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel examines how the Milky Way Galaxy is slowly consuming its neighbours, the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds.