[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

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• Kambiz Kamrani at Anthropology.net notes new research suggesting that all modern Australian Aborigine languages descend from a single ancestor more than ten thousands years ago.


• The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly considers the search for one's spiritual home.


• Centauri Dreams notes the planned ESA ARIEL mission, intended to study exoplanet formation and atmospheres.


• Crooked Timber considers the prospects for the university in the United Kingdom, post-strike.


• D-Brief notes a study suggesting the worlds of TRAPPIST-1 might be too wet, too water-rich, to sustain life.


• Cody Delistraty shares an interview with Nancy Jo Sales on everything from childhood to Facebook.


• Dead Things notes the discovery of human footprints on the seafloor off of British Columbia, predating the Ice Age.


• Bruce Dorminey notes the possibility that ocean worlds in the "ice cap zone" could manage to support life


• Drew Ex Machina takes a look at the observations to date of near-Jovian analogue world Epsilon Indi Ab.


• The Dragon's Tales notes ambitious plans by one private space development company to set up a functioning cislunar economy.


• Hornet Stories notes the upcoming re-release of Garbage's second album, Version 2.0.


• In A State of Migration's Lyman Stone takes a look at the regional origins of German immigrants to the US in the mid-19th century.


• Joe. My. God. notes that Grindr shares private user data with third parties that, among other things, would allow them to determine the HIV status of different individuals.


• JSTOR Daily notes the struggle for equal civil rights in Alaska, as indigenous people fought for equality.


• The NYR Daily reports on an interesting exhibit of post-Second World War modern art from Germany.