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6 votes
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The scandalous decision to pickle Admiral Horatio Nelson in brandy
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There is a button
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Philosophy’s systemic racism
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AAVE (African American Vernacular English)
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The many languages of India
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The distribution of vaccines in the 19th century
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Sensory overload and annals of lying
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Why are we in the West so weird? A theory
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A mathematician's lament
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Fake authenticity
10 votes -
Thomas Frank on the podcast "Useful Idiots"
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We don’t know our potential
10 votes -
The Buzz Aldrin Fallacy
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The Paris morgue provided ghoulish entertainment
11 votes -
Dark hair was common among Vikings – research reveals they were a genetically diverse group and not purely Scandinavian
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Is the University of Edinburgh right to rename its David Hume Tower?
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The warped epistemology of conspiracy theories
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Iran’s secular shift: New survey reveals huge changes in religious beliefs
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Being Finnish: A Guide For Soviet Spies – An archived booklet reveals how communist spooks were instructed to blend in with Finnish locals
11 votes -
Conlang Critic: Toki Pona
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When fascism was American; Using religion, anticommunism and xenophobia, "Father" Charles Coughlin popularized fascism in 1930s America, not too unlike Donald Trump today
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Mercenary black riders and the evolution of cavalry warfare in the 16th century
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Conlang Critic: Lingwa de Planeta
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Justice (Part 1)
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A tildes thread for toki pona, the minimalist conlang
Toki Pona is a minimalist conlang famous for having a vocabulary of under 130 words. There are communities of speakers on all major social media platforms. This is an introduction thread for...
Toki Pona is a minimalist conlang famous for having a vocabulary of under 130 words. There are communities of speakers on all major social media platforms. This is an introduction thread for speakers, learners or the toki-curious to introduce themselves. I'll advise on learning resources, or just answer general questions if anyone is interested.
I'm a toki pona speaker and creator of the YouTube channel 'seme li sin?' which translated news stories into toki pona.
mi wile e ni: kulupu wawa pi toki pona lon lipu Tetesu. jan ale pi toki pona li jan pona mi. sina ken la o kepeken e toki pona lon lipu ni!
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From its origins airing the banter of bored firefighters to its robust classical programming today, Dallas’s WRR-FM has filled an unusual niche on the airwaves for nearly a century
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Two-metre-long sturgeon, a species today near extinction, has been found preserved in the pantry of a 500-year-old Danish royal shipwreck in the Baltic Sea
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Academics are really, really worried about their freedom
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Black troops were welcome in Britain, but Jim Crow wasn’t: The race riot of one night in June 1943
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The 450 Movement
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The (literally) unbelievable story of the original fake news network
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David Graeber has died
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Annotated digital archive of historic books
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Kierkegaard on being happy again after you’ve lost everything
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Confessions of a former bastard cop
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What are your favorite conlangs?
I saw this post. And it reminded me of a hobby I haven't paid much attention to for a while. Apparently there are at least two people who are moderately fluent at Toki Pona, soon to be joined by a...
I saw this post. And it reminded me of a hobby I haven't paid much attention to for a while. Apparently there are at least two people who are moderately fluent at Toki Pona, soon to be joined by a third.
In the meantime, I was wondering what conlangs you find to be interesting or unique?Edit - Also, do you speak any conlangs?
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Postcards from St Kilda arrive ten years later after washing up in Norway – archaeologist Ian McHardy built a waterproof replica of the mail boats a decade ago
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In 100 years' time, what do you think society will look back on and view with distaste?
Inspired by this comment, and thinking about how we today look back on (for example) segregation, or the treatment of homosexuals through the last 100 years. In the year 2120 what do you think...
Inspired by this comment, and thinking about how we today look back on (for example) segregation, or the treatment of homosexuals through the last 100 years.
In the year 2120 what do you think human society will look back on and be disgusted to think about?The big one for me I think will be the treatment of animals, and not just battery farming, but straight up growing them for slaughter: food, clothes, lab-testing, etc. With the nascent industry of 3d-printed/lab-grown meats gaining traction, as well as vegan and vegetarianism on the rise through much of the West, it's not hard to imagine our great-grandchildren being horrified at the thought of their ancestors raising animals just to kill them.
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Think like a feminist
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Ask Kim Kierkegaardashian: Worldly Goods vs. the Greater Good
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Which is "Bouba", and which is "Kiki"?
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The Sacred Band of Carthage | Units of History
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What do you think are the most memorable examples of propaganda?
Can be posters, advertisements, videos/films and maybe national/revolutionary anthems/songs. My favorites so far are: "Is Colorado in america?" (Basically a US flag with various constitutional...
Can be posters, advertisements, videos/films and maybe national/revolutionary anthems/songs.
My favorites so far are:
"Is Colorado in america?" (Basically a US flag with various constitutional rights being
written as violated in the US flag's stripes in Colorado, including the 2nd amendment.)"Daisy" (Lyndon B. Johnson campaign attack ad, implying that if you do not vote for LBJ, we would have nuclear war.)
Honorary mentions for: Wake up, by the Lincoln project, which has a very similar "these are the stakes" tune for 2020. Mourning in America and We will vote are pretty good too.
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Women won the right to vote 100 years ago. Why did they start voting differently from men in 1980?
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Vulcan interests and moral status
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The bombing and the breakthrough: How a chemical weapons disaster in World War II led to a US cover-up - and a new cancer treatment
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Does it matter if we know the truth?
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Are philosophical classics too difficult for students?
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Theorizing racial capitalism
4 votes