tabsir.net: An 1873 Geography Lesson #2
My grandmother’s aunt, Ms. Ida Hoyt, owned an 1873 geography textbook entitled An Elementary Treatise on Physical Geography by D. M. Warren (published by Cowperthwait & Co of Philadelphia). The...
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Yesterday, a flood of seemingly sensational headlines concerning language use in China crossed my transom. Here are a few of them, with embedded links to the articles: English-language studies...
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“Drones are avatars of the the political process: they are instantiations of a set of ideologies and beliefs, made visible by their reification in electromechanical systems. When we talk about drones,...
View ArticleThe Human Family: Archaeological culture. Part 1: defining the concept
Misapplications of the archaeological culture (hereafter abbreviated AC) concept abound, but the concept itself is straightforward. As she does with so many things, Pat Galloway (1995:28) explains it...
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From Lev Michael at Greater Blogazonia: I was briefly excited by the title of a recent Language Log post, Earworms and White Bears, thinking it might have something to say about, well, worms that...
View ArticleShenzhen Noted: a day of culture
Today, there was an exhibition opening in the afternoon and a performance of The Hairy Ape this evening. Suddenly, culture all over Shenzhen. Impressions, below.
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View ArticleServisein*: NY Snapshots I
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View ArticleAnthropology Now: The Power of Humor
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There was a problem connecting to Twitter. Istanbul reaches the final round in IOC’s 2020 Olympics host city vote Istanbul and Tokyo reach the second round of IOC’s voting for the host city of the...
View ArticleLanguage Log: Proportion of adjectives and adverbs: Some facts
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The US, French and British intelligence dossiers cannot even agree on how many were killed in the alleged poison gas attack. When you read the assessment of the British, French and US intelligence...
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Let the blames begin; Yeni Safak accues Reuters of sabotaging Olympic bid by …showing the news? [t.co] via @yenisafak — Andrew Finkel (@FinkelAndrew) September 8, 2013 A long list of possible...
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