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6 votes
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As Harvard’s admissions policy goes on trial, alleged victims of racial bias remain anonymous
3 votes -
Elections in Ancient Rome | How They Did It
6 votes -
The politicisation of English language proficiency, not poor English itself, creates barriers.
7 votes -
How salt helped win the American Civil War
10 votes -
The Death of Stalin
4 votes -
Germany's plans to win WWI
3 votes -
How to study abusers: Should reading lists come with a content warning?
12 votes -
Postmodernism is not identity politics
7 votes -
A very brief history of the Manx language
7 votes -
The end of scientific, rational thinking: Donald Trump, Doug Ford and Jordan Peterson
13 votes -
To heil, or not to heil, when traveling in the Third Reich
6 votes -
Underwater archaeologists may have discovered the oldest known shipwreck in Lake Erie
6 votes -
Catholic Church has lost more members than any other religion in the US
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For 1,500 years, Western Europe ‘forgot’ how to swim, retreating from the water in terror. The return to swimming is a lesser-known triumph of the Enlightenment.
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Dirty dishes reveal what ancient civilizations ate. Food scraps on 8,000-year-old ceramic shards found in Turkey include barley, wheat, peas, and bitter vetch.
12 votes -
The Reykjavik Confessions
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How the English failed to stamp out the Scots language
7 votes -
Turning her Baha’i faith into precedent, lawyer helps women gain asylum
4 votes -
Academic grievance studies and the corruption of scholarship
11 votes -
Yiddish Language was Invented by Slavo-Iranian Jewish Merchants, Scientists Say
8 votes -
The Grievance Studies Scandal: Five Academics Respond
6 votes -
Do you use gender-neutral pronouns? Which one do you prefer?
A series of gender neutral alternatives for the third person singular pronouns (he/she/it) have been proposed throughout the recent years (and maybe decades). I wonder the preferences of fellow...
A series of gender neutral alternatives for the third person singular pronouns (he/she/it) have been proposed throughout the recent years (and maybe decades). I wonder the preferences of fellow users here in that regard. So I'd be glad if you could answer the questions in the title, and maybe elaborate a bit on the reasons of your preference. I'm both interested in this generally, and it could be useful as a means to help me practice quantitative linguistic variation (obviously this would hardly be scientifically usable source of data for actual real research so I'm not asking this for that purposes). I'll add my preference as a comment.
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World's first sci-fi convention (Royal Albert Hall, 1891)
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Tulsa, Oklahoma mayor reopens investigation into possible mass graves from 1921 race massacre
4 votes -
How the first ever telecoms scam worked
12 votes -
The White Headhunter: The story of a 19th-century sailor who survived a South Seas heart of darkness
2 votes -
Was Hitler a socialist? A response to a common argument
11 votes -
Considering interfaith relations between Jews, Christians, and Muslims: an interview with Patrick J. Ryan, S.J.
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The say of the land. Is language produced by the mind? Romantic theory has it otherwise: words emerge from the cosmos, expressing its soul
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Neoliberalism, world music, and corporate aesthetics
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Cleopatra and the Siege of Alexandria (48 to 47 B.C.E.)
7 votes -
Thirty-five years ago today, one man saved us from world-ending nuclear war
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You think you're free? Think again.
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‘Cwtch’: What the most famous Welsh-English word reveals about global dialects
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Western Christianity isn't dying out from natural causes. It's dying of suicide.
Original article in 'The Telegraph': Western Christianity isn't dying out from natural causes. It's dying of suicide. Same article syndicated in 'The Age': Why Western Christianity has a death...
Original article in 'The Telegraph': Western Christianity isn't dying out from natural causes. It's dying of suicide.
Same article syndicated in 'The Age': Why Western Christianity has a death wish. (in case the paywall on the Telegraph article blocks you)
16 votes -
The surprisingly not totally boring search for who invented the spring bar
6 votes -
The epic rise and fall of the name Heather
9 votes -
Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963)
7 votes -
Everyday Dialogues -- Learn Romanian with Nico
7 votes -
Philadelphia threw a WWI parade that gave thousands of onlookers the flu
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Religious Beliefs-Rational or Irrational?
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How long does it take you to read an academic journal article?
I feel like I'm a bit slow, though I'm gaining practice. I cannot read two moderate or long-ish papers in one day. I guess part of that reason is that the field I'm mostly reading in is a field...
I feel like I'm a bit slow, though I'm gaining practice. I cannot read two moderate or long-ish papers in one day. I guess part of that reason is that the field I'm mostly reading in is a field I'm new to, though in accordance with that what I'm reading often is kindo-of introductory material (linguistics, and Linguistics Handbook ed. Aronoff, 2017). A chapter is around the size of an average paper (around 25-30 pages). Another factor may be that I'm not a native speaker of English, but I think I do have a quite decent command of it especially when reading, enough to read through ~60 A4 pages in five-six hours, but I just can't do it.
So I wonder if I'm too slow or maybe exaggerating it a bit? How long does it take for you, and how many can you read, without skimming/skipping, in a "day"?
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HMB Endeavour found: One of the greatest maritime mysteries of all time solved
8 votes -
Why West Africa’s pidgins deserve full recognition as official languages
7 votes -
How Midwestern suffragists won the vote by attacking immigrants
7 votes -
Why is Canadian English unique?
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Australia's Catholic priests are pushing for optional celibacy, married priests, with a plan to take the issues to the Vatican
11 votes -
"What does anger mean for the immigrant?" - What we're talking about when we talk about "political correctness", inclusion, and social justice, Part 1
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“I now know what it’s like to have A 110-story building come down on my head.”
9 votes