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My tweets
- Mon, 20:16: RT @ _cingraham: Bad charts of the world, meet your God (h/t @ FrankieBi) http://t.co/SnDKijnHxJ
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WoUtNW
The WoUtNW is amanuensis. For those of us who went to MIT instead of Harvard, the Wikipedia article: amanuensis.
I was just cc'ed on an e-mail in which someone used amanuensis quite naturally, in the sense referred to by
It is also used in a specific sense in some academic contexts, for instance when an injured or disabled person is helped by an ( Read more... ) -
My tweets
- Thu, 12:19: Quote of the Day http://t.co/C8x9Y7f02y
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Quote of the Day
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom.
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WoUtNW
The WoUtNW is lunch.
Lunch is derived from lump, indicating that your lunch is a formless mass of some sort of (hopefully edible) substance. Or possibly it is derived from the Spanish word lonja meaning "slice" (but literally meaning "loin"). It seems that that form lunching predates lunch, and that this in turn may have been a corruption of ( Read more... ) -
My tweets
- Wed, 18:12: polyphonic overtone singing - Anna-Maria Hefele https://t.co/6fdPJCvXl2 via @ YouTube
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A Different Set of Conversations
"We want Iran not to have nuclear weapons precisely because we can't bank on the nature of the regime changing. That's exactly why we don't want to have nuclear weapons. If suddenly Iran transformed itself to Germany or Sweden or France then there would be a different set of conversations about their nuclear infrastructure."
I'm pretty sure that if ( Read more... )