Everyone has his own ideas, usually corrupt, about the Middle Ages.

~Umberto Eco

Born Believers: How your brain creates God.

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How to control a herd of humans

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Two apple juice a day keeps Alzheimer's away

Spring Coming Earlier, Study Says

Tree death on the rise

Cooking hearths to blame for Asian haze

Hormones help women spot cuter babies

Bare or Bear, or, the Story of Berserk, found on Anatoly Liberman's blog.

Why Darwin was wrong about the Tree of Life

Did the moon about face?

Biofuel from the Oceans

So, I found my little travel notebook that I took to Iceland and thought of recording some of what it says before the pencil becomes too illegible.

Til hemingja 'Congratulations'
Til hemingja með afmælið 'Happy Birthday'
Til hemingja með daginn 'Congratulations on the day'

Gleðileg jól 'Merry Christmas'
Gleðilegt ár 'Happy New Year'
Gleðilega ( Read more... )

bjór-reifr, adj. cheerful from beer-drinking (lit. beer-cheerful)

I'm about halfway through Dorothy Dunnett's King Hereafter. Oh damn, it's really getting good. Dunnett is a Scottish writer (now unfortunately passed) that was suggested to me first in Iceland, by my fellow student Scott (a professor by trade). While her style can sometimes be a bit dense (others also complain it can be slow), it is very ( Read more... )

höll (f.) a hall -- but only of a king´s or earl´s hall (or god´s hall, ie. Valhöll (Eng. Valhalla ( Read more... )

http://www.simnet.is/gullis/jo/
http://icecook.blogspot.com/

And I found a recipe for one type of slátur, Lyfrarpylsa 'Liver sausage', but I'm still looking for Blóðmör 'Blood Sausage'. For whatever reason, I have a desire to ( Read more... )