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The Crux takes a look at how those people who actually are short sleepers work.

D-Brief looks at a study noting how the moods of people are determined by the strengths of their phones' batteries.

Dan Lainer-Vos at the Everyday Sociology Blog looks at statistical certainty at a time of climate change.

JSTOR Daily looks at how, and why, the New England Puritans believed human bone might have medical power.

Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at the press coverage that created the alleged Clinton uranium scandal.

The Map Room Blog shares maps noting that, already, since the late 19th century much of the world has warmed more than 2 degrees Celsius.

Strange Company shares a diverse collection of links.

Daniel Pfau at Towleroad writes about possible deep evolutionary roots of homosexuality.

Window on Eurasia notes how the Russian republic of Karelia, despite its border with Finland, suffers from repression.

Architectuul profiles architectural photographer Lorenzo Zandri, here.

Bad Astronomy's Phil Plait notes a new study suggesting red dwarf stars, by far the most common stars in the universe, have plenty of planets.

The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly shares 11 tips for interviewers, reminding me of what I did for anthropology fieldwork.

Centauri Dreams notes how water ice ejected from Enceladus makes the inner moons of Saturn brilliant.

The Crux looks at the increasingly complicated question of when the first humans reached North America.

D-Brief notes a new discovery suggesting the hearts of humans, unlike the hearts of other closely related primates, evolved to require endurance activities to remain healthy.

Dangerous Minds shares with its readers the overlooked 1969 satire Putney Swope.

The Dragon's Tales notes that the WFIRST infrared telescope has passed its first design review.

Gizmodo notes how drought in Spain has revealed the megalithic Dolmen of Guadalperal for the first time in six decades.

io9 looks at the amazing Jonathan Hickman run on the X-Men so far, one that has established the mutants as eye-catching and deeply alien.

Joe. My. God. notes that the Pentagon has admitted that 2017 UFO videos do, in fact, depict some unidentified objects in the air.

JSTOR Daily looks at the origin of the equestrian horseback statue in ancient Rome.

Language Log shares a bilingual English/German pun from Berlin.

Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns and Money reflects on the legacy of Thomas Jefferson at Jefferson's grave.

Tyler Cowen at Marginal Revolution looks at a new book arguing, contra Pinker perhaps, that the modern era is one of heightened violence.

The New APPS Blog seeks to reconcile the philosophy of Hobbes with that of Foucault on biopower.

Strange Company shares news clippings from 1970s Ohio about a pesky UFO.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains why the idea of shooting garbage from Earth into the sun does not work.

Frank Jacobs at Strange Maps explains the appearance of Brasilia on a 1920s German map: It turns out the capital was nearly realized then.

Towleroad notes that Pete Buttigieg has taken to avoiding reading LGBTQ media because he dislikes their criticism of his gayness.

Arnold Zwicky looks at diners and changing menus and slavery.

The Buzz shares a TIFF reading list, here.

Centauri Dreams notes the growing sensitivity of radial velocity techniques in finding weird exoplanet HR 5183 b, here.

The Crux reports on circumgalactic gas and the death of galaxies.

Dead Things notes the import of the discovery of the oldest known Australopithecine skull.

Dangerous Minds reports on pioneering 1930s queer artist Hannah Gluckstein, also known as Gluck.

Gizmodo notes that, for an unnamed reason, DARPA needs a large secure underground testing facility for tomorrow.

JSTOR Daily looks at how Jim Crow laws affected Mexican immigrants in the early 20th century US.

Language Hat looks at a new project to study Irish texts and language over centuries.

Language Log shares some Chinglish signs from a top university in China.

Lawyers, Guns and Money shares an interview with Jeffrey Melnick suggesting Charles Manson was substantially a convenient boogeyman.

Marginal Revolution shares a paper suggesting marijuana legalization is linked to declining crime rates.

Susan Neiman at the NYR Daily tells how she began her life as a white woman in Atlanta and is ending it as a Jewish woman in Berlin.

The Planetary Society Blog looks at Hayabusa2 at Ryugu.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel celebrated the 230th anniversary of Enceladus, the Saturn moon that might harbour life.

Window on Eurasia notes how global warming is harming the rivers of Siberia, causing many to run short.

In an extended meditation, Antipope's Charlie Stross considers what the domestic architecture of the future will look like. What different technologies, with different uses of space, will come into play?

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait looks at the new SPECULOOS exoplanet hunting telescope, specializing in the search for planets around the coolest stars.

The Crux looks at the evolutionary origins of hominins and chimpanzees in an upright walking ape several million years ago.

D-Brief notes the multiple detections of gravitational waves made by LIGO.

The Dragon's Tales looks at the development of laser weapons by China.

Karen Sternheimer at the Everyday Sociology Blog looks at the gap between social theory and field research.

Gizmodo shares an interesting discussion with paleontologists and other dinosaur experts: What would the dinosaurs have become if not for the Chixculub impact?

Hornet Stories notes the ways in which the policies of the Satanic Temple would be good for queer students.

io9 notes how the Deep Space 9 documentary What We Leave Behind imagines what a Season 8 would have looked like.

Joe. My. God. reports that activist Jacob Wohl is apparently behind allegations of a sexual assault by Pete Buttigieg against a subordinate.

JSTOR Daily takes a look at the uses of the yellow ribbon in American popular culture.
Language Hat shares an account of the life experiences of an Israeli taxi driver, spread across languages and borders.

Scott Lemieux at Lawyers, Guns and Money makes deserved fun of Bret Easton Ellis for his claims to having been marginalized.

Marginal Revolution considers, briefly, the idea that artificial intelligence might not be harmful to humans. (Why would it necessarily have to be?)

The NYR Daily considers a British exhibition of artworks by artists from the former Czechoslovakia.

Peter Rukavina looks at gender representation in party caucuses in PEI from the early 1990s on, noting the huge surge in female representation in the Greens now.

The Signal looks at how the Library of Congress is preserving Latin American monographs.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel explains how Einstein knew that gravity must bend light.

Window on Eurasia explains the sharp drop in the ethnic Russian population of Tuva in the 1990s.

National Geographic reports on the discovery of animals slaughtered by mysterious hominins present in the Philippines some 700 thousand years ago. Who were they?

National Geographic notes a new study suggesting that, before the Chixculub impact, the dinosaurs were doing fine as a group of animals, that they were not on the verge of dying out. The dinosaurs simply had bad luck.

CityLab notes how the jobs typically filled by women, particularly, are especially vulnerable to roboticization.

CBC recently reported from a conference in Las Vegas, where robots demonstrated their ability to fill any number of jobs, displacing human workers.

Matt Simon at WIRED wrote about the potential for robot and human workers to co-exist, each with their own strengths.

The Broadside Blog's Caitlin Kelly writes about the importance of seeing the world from new angles.

John Quiggin at Crooked Timber suggests that, worldwide, coal is becoming increasingly closely associated with corruption.

D-Brief looks at a study drawing on Twitter that suggests people will quickly get used to changing weather in the era of climate change.

Jonathan Wynn at the Everyday Sociology Blog writes about a family trip during which he spent time listening to sociology-related podcasts.

Far Outliers notes the life-determining intensity of exam time for young people in Calcutta.

io9 notes that, finally, the classic Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Once More, With Feeling" is being released on vinyl.

JSTOR Daily looks at how medieval Europe regulated the sex trade.

Language Hat looks at how anthropologists have stopped using "hominid" and started using "hominin", and why.

Language Log considers the difficulty of talking about "Sinophone" given the unrepresented linguistic diversity included in the umbrella of "Chinese".

Marginal Revolution suggests there are conflicts between NIMBYism and supporting open immigration policies.

At Out There, Corey S. Powell interviews astronomer Slava Turyshev about the possibility not only of interstellar travel but of exploiting the Solar Gravity Lens, 550 AU away.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 9 mission.

Towleroad notes that Marvel Comics is planning to make its lead character in the Eternals gay.

Daniel Little at Understanding Society examines how the human body and its physical capacities are represented in sociology.

Window on Eurasia notes the growth of the Volga Tatar population of Moscow, something hidden by the high degree of assimilation of many of its members.

Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell notes, in connection to Huawei, the broad powers allotted to the British government under existing security and communications laws.

Arnold Zwicky looks at anteaters and antedaters.

The study of the changing environment of the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence is explored in this article, over at Global News.

A new process for extracting uranium from seawater makes nuclear energy still more viable. Forbes has it.

A recent study of chimpanzee groups in central Africa has found evidence of regional variations in their material culture. Phys.org has it.

Opium poppy farmers in India are forced to defend their fields against parrots addicted to their crops. VICE reports.

CBC explores the Lunar Gateway project that Canada is newly involved in.

This Noisey interview with musician Tiga shows how he and his music helped make Montréal a leading nightlife city.

La Presse notes that Québec City is looking to bypass an environmental impact study for its proposed streetcar.

Guardian Cities notes that the rapid development of Kuala Lumpur has displaced the native macaques from their home, creating new interactions between them and invasive primates.

Guardian Cities reports on the Sicilian town of Sambuca, which has put vacant homes on sale for one Euro each. Will this be enough to reverse depopulation?

CityLab notes how the city of Birmingham has resisted an Alabama state law requiring the display of a Confederate monument.

Centauri Dreams considers the possible roles and threats posed by artificial intelligence for interstellar missions.

John Quiggin at Crooked Timber makes the point that blaming Facebook for the propagation of fake news misses entirely the motives of the people who spread these rumours, online or otherwise.

The Crux looks at the factors which led to the human species' diversity of skin colours.

Dangerous Minds reports on a new collection of early North American electronica.

Far Outliers reports on the salt extraction industry of Sichuan.

JSTOR Daily notes how inbreeding can be a threat to endangered populations, like gorillas.

Language Log examines the connection of the Thai word for soul with Old Sinitic.

Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at divisions on the American left, including pro-Trump left radicals.

Caitlin Chandler at the NYR Daily reports on the plight of undocumented immigrants in Rome, forced from their squats under the pressure of the new populist government of Italy.

Spacing takes a look at the work of Acton Ostry Architects.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel looks at the ten largest non-planetary bodies in the solar system.

Strange Company looks at the very strange 1997 disappearance of Judy Smith from Philadelphia and her latest discovery in the North Carolina wilderness. What happened to her?

Strange Maps looks at the worrisome polarization globally between supporters and opponents of the current government in Venezuela. Is this a 1914 moment?

Window on Eurasia suggests that Russia and Venezuela share a common oil-fueled authoritarian fragility.

Arnold Zwicky looks at the camelids of Peru, stuffed toys and llamas and more.

D-Brief notes that elephants seem to count the same way humans do.

JSTOR Daily takes a look at the reasons why octopus mothers maintain such long, silent vigils over their eggs.

Happily, the mountain gorilla is now no longer a "critically endangered" species. CBC reports.

The Crux looks at how studies of communication among other primates can help solve the question of how language developed among humans.

D-Brief notes the determination that a collection of termite mounds dates back four thousand years, product of a sophisticated hive insect society.

JSTOR Daily reported on the legacy of Koko the gorilla, on the insights she opened up into non-human minds.

The mourning demonstrated by this orca mother with her calf, and the grief that is implied, remains moving. CBC reports.

Julian Benoit at The Conversation writes about the import of DNA analyses on our understanding of the evolution of elephants.

French theme park Puy de Dome has recruited six crows to collect garbage from its grounds. Smithsonian Magazine reports.

D-Brief reports on findings that Native Americans in New Mexico may have been breeding parrots.

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.

The displays at the AMNH's Anne and Bernard Spitzer Hall of Human Origins are amazing, doing a good job of placing Homo sapiens in the much deeper and broader context of our primate kin. This includes Neanderthals, of course, as well as the newly-discovered Homo floresiensis. Who else will be added to our family tree, I wonder, as science progresses?

John Noble Wilford's 2007 review of the hall for The New York Times does a good job of capturing the glory of this hall.

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Craig Welch at National Geographic notes how scientists, by carefully decoding the songs of blue whales, are figuring out how they are leading their lives.

Sarah Gibbens at National Geographic notes a new study suggesting that, since 1999, hunting and environmental devastation has reduced the orangutan population of Borneo by almost half, by 150 thousand individuals. This sounds almost like genocide.

Universe Today notes evidence that 'Oumuamua had a very violent past.

Nadia Drake at National Geographic explores the recent study suggesting that, unless there were signs of menace, most people actually would react well to news of extraterrestrial life.

Vikram Zutshi at Open Democracy recently suggested that contact with extraterrestrial intelligence could be good for the Earth, might even help us save it. Certainly this civilization would have survived the Great Filter; certainly it's a corrective to lazy assumptions of automatic menace.

This CityLab post reviews a fantastic map book about the Great Lakes and their history.

An upcoming bout of Arctic chill in the United States (Canada, too) is connected to the ongoing process of climate change featuring global warming. Bloomberg explains.

National Geographic takes a look at upcoming testing for the United States' new Orion program, a spacecraft that may take people back to the Moon.

52 baboons escaped a Paris zoo, in so demonstrating their smarts. National Geographic explains.

Sparrows in the oilpatch, National Observer notes, are changing their song in order to compete with noise from machinery.

The primates of the Toronto Zoo—the olive baboons, the gorillas, the Sumatran orangutan—I found particularly haunting. These are creatures so like us.

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Three elephants in Connecticut are the latest animals subject to a bid by activists to grant them status as "legal persons". The Washington Post reports.

Gary Chabonneau has won a court battle versus the Vancouver Aquarium to secure rights to footage he took of their captive cetaceans. CBC reports.

Bonobos have been proven in a recent experiment to have the capacity to be empathetic towards strangers. National Geographic reports.

Centauri Dreams looks at the design of Japan for a laser-fueled ion engine for deep space probe IKAROS, destined for the Trojans of Jupiter.

The Crux notes the achievements of Jane Goodall, not least for recognizing non-human animals have personalities.

The Dragon's Gaze reports on a model detailing the accretion of massive planets from icy pebbles.

Hornet Stories shares Tori Amos talking about her late gay friend, makeup artist Kevyn Aucoin.

Language Log reports on a powerful essay regarding the writing of the first Navajo-English dictionary.

The NYR Daily notes how the Russian government of Putin is trying to deal with the Russian Revolution by not recognizing it.

Roads and Kingdoms reports on the efforts of a visitor to drink the signature ikigage beer of Rwanda, brewed from sorghum.

Drew Rowsome quite likes the Guillermo del Toro exhibit at the Art Gallery of Ontario. (I should go, too.)

Towleroad notes early supports suggesting the Australian postal vote on same-sex marriage will be a crushing victory for the good guys.

Window on Eurasia notes the pressure of new education changes on smaller minority languages in Russia.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait reports on the naming of the features of the surface of Ceres.

D-Brief notes that small-scale robotic manufacturing is now a thing.

The Dragon's Gaze reports on a new study of exoplanets and their stars.

The Dragon's Tales has a nice round-up of news on hominin research and primates generally.

Hornet Stories notes that there is apparently a debate about women as drag queens. I don't see why they should not, frankly.

Joe. My. God links to a Rolling Stone article celebrating Erotica and Sex, by Madonna, on their 25th anniversary.

Lawyers, Guns and Money notes the way Dollar General caters to a permanent underclass. Like Dollarama in Canada?

Language Hat notes that Xibe, related to Manchu, is receiving protection from China.

The NYR Daily reports on the mass killings, approaching genocide, in Indonesia in 1965.

Starts With A Bang's Ethan Siegel reports on the proofs we have for the current age of the universe.

Bad Astronomer Phil Plait notes the discovery of activity on distant comet
C/2017 K2.

Centauri Dreams notes a new proposal for an orbital telescope that could detect Earth-like worlds at Alpha Centauri A and B.

D-Brief notes a new research finding that chimpanzees can learn to use tools on their own, without teaching.

Dangerous Minds notes the interesting Detroit character of Gundella, the Green Witch of Detroit.

Language Log tries to decipher some garbled Hebrew at an American wedding.

The LRB Blog looks at the continued aftershocks, social and otherwise, from the recent earthquake in Mexico.

Marginal Revolution argues that North Korea is set to become more China's problem than the United States'.

Roads and Kingdoms notes the simple pleasures of soy milk in China.

Seriously Science notes a study looking at the different factors in the personalities of cats.

Towleroad notes the recent discovery of an antibody effective against 99% or so variants of HIV.

Window on Eurasia argues Russian politics play a central role in getting Russophones in Ukraine to become Ukrainian.

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[NEWS] Five links about smart animals: elephants, octopuses, gorillas, primates, termites
[NEWS] Five links on non-humans: gorillas, orcas, elephants, crows, parrots
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[PHOTO] Nine photos from the Hall of Human Origins (@amnh)
[NEWS] Five links on life and intelligence both near and far: 'Oumuamua, ET, blue whales, orangutans
[NEWS] Five science links: Great Lakes, cold in global warming, Orion, baboons, Alberta sparrow song
[PHOTO] Seven photos of the primates of the Toronto Zoo (@thetorontozoo)
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Entries tagged with primates

[BLOG] Some Saturday links

[BLOG] Some Friday links

[BLOG] Some Thursday links

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

[NEWS] Five sci-tech links: Southeast Asian hominins, dinosaurs, robots

[BLOG] Some Monday links

[NEWS] Five science links: Gulf of St. Lawrence, ocean uranium, chimpanzees, parrots, Lunar Gateway

[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Montréal, Québec City, Kuala Lumpur, Sambuca, Birmingham

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

[NEWS] Five links about smart animals: elephants, octopuses, gorillas, primates, termites

[NEWS] Five links on non-humans: gorillas, orcas, elephants, crows, parrots

[BLOG] Some Tuesday links

[PHOTO] Nine photos from the Hall of Human Origins (@amnh)

[NEWS] Five links on life and intelligence both near and far: 'Oumuamua, ET, blue whales, orangutans

[NEWS] Five science links: Great Lakes, cold in global warming, Orion, baboons, Alberta sparrow song

[PHOTO] Seven photos of the primates of the Toronto Zoo (@thetorontozoo)

[NEWS] Three links about smart animals: elephants as legal persons, cetacean footage, bonobo empathy

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