[BLOG] Some Monday links

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• Anthropology.net notes the embarrassing discovery that one of the vertebrae believed to have been part of the skeleton of early hominid Lucy actually belonged to a baboon.
• Antipope Charlie Stross comes up with another worrisome explanation for the Great Filter.
• BlogTO visits the Toronto offices of photo community site 500px.
• Centauri Dreams features a guest essay from Ashley Baldwin about near- and medium-term search strategies and technologies for exoplanets.
• Crooked Timber examines problems with non-copyright strategies.
• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper noting oddities in the protoplanetary disk of AA Tauri.
• The Dragon's Tales considers how how to make enduring software.
• Mathew Ingram notes that Rolling Stone encountered ruin with the story of Jackie by wanting it to be true.
• Joe. My. God. notes a New York City artist who took pictures of people in adjacent condos won the privacy suit put against him.
• Language Hat looks at foreign influence in the French language.
• Language Log links to a study of Ronald Reagan's speeches that finds evidence of his progression to Alzheimer's during the presidency.
• Languages of the World considers the geopolitics of a military strike against the Iranian nuclear program.
• Lawyers, Guns and Money argues that Jonah Lehrer was not treated unfairly.
• Marginal Revolution approves of Larry Kramer's new GLBT-themed history of the United States.
• Justin Petrone at North contrasts Easter as celebrated in Estonian and Russian churches.
• Savage Minds features an essay in support of the BDS movement aimed against Israel.
• Spacing engages David Miller on the need of urbanites to have access to nature.
• Torontoist notes the popularity of a bill against GLBT conversion therapy at Queen's Park.
• Towleroad observes the beginning of an opera about Grindr.
• The Volokh Conspiracy takes issue with Gerry Trudeau's criticism of cartoons which satirize Islam.
• Window on Eurasia looks at a Tatar woman who kept Islam alive in Soviet Moscow, argues that the sheer size of Donbas means that Russia cannot support it, looks at the centrality of the Second World War in modern Russia, and suggests the weak Ukrainian state but strong civil society is the inverse of the Russian situation.