- Two From The Atlantic. | languagehat.com
- The Eerie Beauty of Rare Alphabets… “Without support from governments, NGOs, or foundations, the English-born, Vermont-based writer Tim Brookes has been documenting this heritage in a unique way, carving specimens on local curly maple in his Endangered Alphabets Project.” …
- Language Mystery: When Did Americans Stop Sounding This Way?, by James Fallows, is about Mid-Atlantic English, also called the “Transatlantic accent”
- The Many Meanings of ‘California Cuisine’ – Culture Feed – The Bay Citizen
- Using a sample pool of over 1,500 restaurant menus, the white-coated labmasters crunched their numbers and found it’s a slowly creeping trend: …
- But we’re curious what the rest of the country thinks when they throw California on the menu. Obviously the ubiquitous California sushi roll ranks high on FRI’s list, and anything with avocado and Monterey jack seems to get the label. But what else does the rest of the country mean when they say California ________?” We did some research.
- > food
- Study: Healthy Eating Makes Wallets Thin – Quality of Life – The Bay Citizen
- Simply increasing consumption of potassium — the most expensive of the four recommended nutrients — would tack on an additional $380 to the average consumer’s annual food costs, the study found. …
- The study’s lead researcher, Pablo Monsivais, however, believes that the findings merely demonstrate that programs to promote good nutrition should take into account the financial realities of the people they target.
- The S&P Downgrade, American Arrogance and Global Reality
- What they don’t realize is that they are misbehaving in the global fishbowl. When you’re the world’s largest economy and living in a world of constant and instant communications, you can’t pretend the foreigners aren’t watching. In fact, TV screens from Beijing to Moscow featured the debt-default countdown clock that U.S. cable networks came up with. The negotiations over the debt limit were followed closely from Johannesburg to Kuala Lumpur, from Hong Kong to Frankfurt.
- But much of the Tea Party doesn’t believe in globalization or in global warming; foreign countries are just places from which the president probably came. On top of that, we have a crop of freshman Republicans in Congress now who don’t seem to know anything about economics, either. In a couple of days, their actions have wiped out more stock market wealth than they granted the rich by refusing to raise their taxes. And they still fail to understand that our widening deficit is driven, not by government spending, but by the continuing recession.
- ‘Watch the Throne’: A Militant Masterpiece?
- According to this DuVernay, the album represents what hip-hop should have been.
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- Divided Korea Grapples with Koguryeo Legacy | About.com Asian History
- Last month, South Korea made an agreement with UNESCO to help fund protection of the Koguryeo tomb murals and other cultural assets. What makes this story particularly interesting is the location of those tombs – near Pyongyang, in North Korea. …
- Search for displaced Holocaust children
- The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum has begun a search to find out the identities of children, displaced by the Holocaust, in various photographs from their collection.
- Monumental gate complex unearthed in Turkey
- Archaeologists in southeastern Turkey have unearthed a 3,000-year-old monumental gate complex adorned with stone sculptures, including a beautifully carved lion.
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