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Updated 2024-12-21 11:52:23

  1. Liberal England A brief defence of teaching Latin and natural history in state schools I went to a comprehensive, I received free school meals, I even had Allison Pearson in the same class. But I still took and passed O… (21 Dec 2024)
  2. Dung Beetles and Navigation with Marie Dacke Lund University professor Marie Dacke discusses her famous research with dung beetles, and also how she became a biologist, her joy at… (21 Dec 2024)
  3. Neerlandistiek Nieuw in Trefwoord In Trefwoord, het digitale tijdschrift voor lexicografie en lexicologie, zijn onlangs de volgende artikelen verschenen: Een overzicht v… (21 Dec 2024)
  4. My Top Ten Saturday Snapshots #375 If it's Saturday morning, it must be Snapshots time. Not a lot of people know that, but those that do... well, they're the special o… (21 Dec 2024)
  5. Beaker Folk of Husborne Crawley Winter Solstice Ceremony Archdruid: Like our ancestors before us Hnaef: And beside us Charlii: And beneath us Keith: Tactless. Archdruid: We stand at the sti… (21 Dec 2024)
  6. Langue sauce piquante Bientôt : le dernier jour, très mouvementé, du procès Paty… (21 Dec 2024)
  7. Neerlandistiek De nieuwe conceptexamenprogramma’s Nederlands In oktober zijn de nieuwe conceptexamenprogramma’s Nederlands verschenen, opgesteld door een vakvernieuwingscommissie die bestond uit… (21 Dec 2024)
  8. Futility Closet Opaque Sets A creature living in the plane can’t see through a unit square — the square’s four line segments block its line of sight from any… (21 Dec 2024)
  9. Historia de Barcelona Historia de Barcelona, 21/12 1470: Entierro de Juan II de Lorena, llamado Príncipe de Gerona por la Generalidad, que murió supuestamente envenenado (26+23) 18… (21 Dec 2024)
  10. Language Log Tocharica et archaeologica It is my pleasure to announce the publication of the following volume which has just appeared: Victor H. Mair, ed.  Tocharica et archa… (21 Dec 2024)
  11. Medieval manuscripts blog Choose wisely An old waterlogged vellum book, with sand and seashells still stuck to its cover, which bears the words ‘My Secrete Log Boke’. Insi… (21 Dec 2024)
  12. Liberal England Bob Trubshaw on the ironstone railways of Leicestershire A thorough survey of a vanished local industry and its associated railways. At 33:20 we visit Nevill Holt, which is believed by many… (20 Dec 2024)
  13. languagehat.com In the Print Shop. I’ve long been fascinated by the process of old-fashioned printing (see this 2004 post), and when I used to work in a printing and de… (20 Dec 2024)
  14. Language Log RP prosody joke In comments on "Affected brogue", 12/19/2024, Benjamin Orsatti and others put Bernard Mayes forward as a quintessential RP speaker, inc… (20 Dec 2024)
  15. Liberal England "A handbag?" Edward Fox hears about Michael Medwin's childhood Embed from Getty Images I've found it! When I disappeared down the rabbit hole of the childhood of the British film actor and produc… (20 Dec 2024)
  16. Language Log AI counting again Following up on "AIs on Rs in 'strawberry'" (8/24/2024), "Can Google AI count?" (9/21/2024), "The 'Letter Equity Task Force'" (12/5/202… (20 Dec 2024)
  17. Futility Closet Brute Force NBC’s Today Show had a surprising guest in 1959: G. Clifford Prout Jr., president of the Society for Indecency to Naked Animals, an a… (20 Dec 2024)
  18. Beaker Folk of Husborne Crawley The Apple Tree I went out in the Orchard this afternoon. Where the bare twigs of the apple trees were stark against the steel gray of the solstice sk… (20 Dec 2024)
  19. Far Outliers U.S. Navy Ship “Crossing the Line” From The Mighty Moo: The USS Cowpens and Her Epic World War II Journey from Jinx Ship to the Navy’s First Carrier into Tokyo Bay, by… (20 Dec 2024)
  20. Neerlandistiek Nelleke IJssennagger bysûnder heechlearaar Kultuerskiednis yn Grins Op 1 jannewaris 2025 wurdt dr. Nelleke IJssennagger-van der Pluijm beneamd ta bysûnder heechlearaar Kultuerskiednis fan it súdlike No… (20 Dec 2024)
  21. FT Alphaville Person of interest 2024: the longlist An 11th annual celebration of cancellation… (20 Dec 2024)
  22. FT Alphaville The big FTAV quiz of the year We have questions… (20 Dec 2024)
  23. FT Alphaville Central banking’s Song of Fire and Flood Why central banks are right to care about the green stuff… (20 Dec 2024)
  24. My Top Ten Thank The F-Word It's The Friday Before Christmas It's Christmassssss! As Noddy always says. Or, "it's fucking Christmasssssss," as I usually mutter.  Eric Idle said it best... Stil… (20 Dec 2024)
  25. Futility Closet One Last Christmas Quiz The Royal Statistical Society’s 2024 Christmas Quiz consists of two parts, a warmup section and the quiz itself, each consisting of 1… (20 Dec 2024)
  26. Nature Behind the scenes of <i>Nature</i> News &amp; Views in 2024 Nature, Published online: 20 December 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-04246-9From a Death Star moon to gene editing, construction fuses a… (20 Dec 2024)
  27. Nature That Christmas jumper is a marvel of complicated physics Nature, Published online: 20 December 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-04173-9Models and experiments demonstrate what happens when a knitt… (20 Dec 2024)
  28. xkcd.com Exclusion Principle … (20 Dec 2024)
  29. Nature Build your own receptor: modular system can be tailored to any antigen Nature, Published online: 20 December 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-04178-4PAGERs provide modular, customizable G-protein-coupled recep… (20 Dec 2024)
  30. languagehat.com Nonc Muels. Kitty Empire’s “MJ Lenderman review – a shooting star from the American south” begins: A pedal steel guitar is weeping in one c… (19 Dec 2024)
  31. Laudator Temporis Acti Feed the Poor Diogenes Laertius 6.2.57 (on Diogenes the Cynic; tr. R.D. Hicks): He went up to Anaximenes the rhetorician, who was fat, and said, "Let… (19 Dec 2024)
  32. Far Outliers Japanese Night Attack Tactics, 1943 From The Mighty Moo: The USS Cowpens and Her Epic World War II Journey from Jinx Ship to the Navy’s First Carrier into Tokyo Bay, by… (19 Dec 2024)
  33. Further or Alternatively Not everything is going to the dogs: a cheerful Christmas post It's nearly Christmas and therefore time for a bit of goodwill.Like everyone who is broadly sane, I've noticed that some things are goi… (19 Dec 2024)
  34. Laudator Temporis Acti Important Factors in War Livy 9.17.3 (tr. B.O. Foster): It appears that in war the factors of chief importance are the numbers and valour of the soldiers, the a… (19 Dec 2024)
  35. Ig Nobel Face-to-Face (video part 3 of 3) The Ig Nobel Prizes honor things so surprising that they make people LAUGH, then THINK. At the 2024 Ig Nobel Prize ceremony, ten new… (19 Dec 2024)
  36. Langue sauce piquante Des sous-titres intelligents ? vraiment ? « L’adaptation, art menacé », voilà un très intéressant article dans les Cahiers du cinéma de ce mois de décembre. Qu’app… (19 Dec 2024)
  37. My Top Ten My Top 24 of 2024 (#12 - 10) More good albums from 2024....  12. Hamish Hawk - A Firmer Hand I know I'm unduly harsh on Hamish Hawk, all because I want him to… (19 Dec 2024)
  38. Wreed en Plezant Afgrijselijke moord te St.-Katelijne-Waver (1917) In de GAZET VAN BRUSSEL verschijnt op 16 juni 1917 een kort relaas over een moord waarover met afschuw wordt gesproken En zoals beloofd… (18 Dec 2024)
  39. WFMU's recent playlists from Irwin Chusid WFMU Playlist: Irwin Chusid from Dec 18, 2024 Playlist from Irwin Chusid on WFMU, from Dec 18, 2024… (18 Dec 2024)
  40. languagehat.com Year in Reading 2024. Back in January I was asked to continue my Year in Reading series here at LH, and how can I say no? At first I was thinking “I didn… (18 Dec 2024)
  41. Beaker Folk of Husborne Crawley Death of Kirsty MacColl (2000) Imagining Kirsty, halfway through her 60s, writing songs about how the Government have short-changed the Waspi women after saying they… (18 Dec 2024)
  42. Laudator Temporis Acti Intimate Associates Tenney Frank (1876-1939), "Changing Conceptions of Literary and Philological Research," Journal of the History of Ideas 3.4 (October, 1… (18 Dec 2024)
  43. Far Outliers U.S. Navy in Wartime Honolulu From The Mighty Moo: The USS Cowpens and Her Epic World War II Journey from Jinx Ship to the Navy’s First Carrier into Tokyo Bay, by… (18 Dec 2024)
  44. V&A Blog Designing for protest and sustainability Barricade and Beacon is a display about protest architecture which features two installations: Barricade, made from U-Build box units,… (18 Dec 2024)
  45. Music blog Elizabeth Poston’s Christmas Music The Elizabeth Poston Manuscripts (MS Mus. 1877) have recently been fully catalogued as part of the 18-month ‘Archives of Women Musici… (18 Dec 2024)
  46. Langue sauce piquante Aurélie et Olihoud avaient la parole… ce matin, dans le « Journal de 8 h 45 » sur France Culture, pour parler correction,à l’occasion des 80 ans du Monde,Aurélie Car… (18 Dec 2024)
  47. xkcd.com Linear Sort … (18 Dec 2024)
  48. Diary of a Busker Day 2470 Diary Of A Busker Day 2470 Tuesday December 17th 2024 Winchester. It’s cold; 9 degrees but at least there’s no wind because if ther… (17 Dec 2024)
  49. Büchermarkt Sasha Filipenko: "Der Schatten einer offenen Tür" - Tödliche Reise ins Glück Eine rätselhafte Suizidreihe, ein depressiver Ermittler und die Pest des Zynismus: Der neue Roman des belarussischen Autors Sasha Fil… (17 Dec 2024)
  50. CNRS Talks With Some French Ig Nobel Prize Winners CNRS, France’s venerable research organization, takes a cheery look at some of the many French scientists who have won Ig Nobel Prize… (17 Dec 2024)