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The Invasion of America: How the United States Took Over an Eighth of the World - http://invasionofamerica.ehistory.org/

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"Between 1776 and 1887, the United States seized over 1.5 billion acres from America's indigenous people by treaty and executive order. Explore how in this interactive map of every Native American land cession during that period." - maitani - -

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The Surprising Power of Stories That Are Shorter Than Short Stories - Joe Fassler - The Atlantic - http://www.theatlantic.com/enterta...

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"Last week, Stuart Dybek, one of America’s living masters of the short story, published two new, and very different collections. The nine pieces in Paper Lantern: Love Stories are fairly conventional—they’re stories with drawn characters, and clear conflicts, that reach a certain length. Ecstatic Cahoots: Fifty Short Stories is more focused on the evocative power of language itself—as the strange, musical pairing of words in its title suggests. In offerings that range in length from two lines to nearly 10 pages, from narrative to wholly impressionistic, Dybek uses fragments, koans, and brief lyric flights to capture whole worlds in miniature." - maitani - -

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J.S. Bach's Comic Opera, "The Coffee Cantata," Sings the Praises of the Great Stimulating Drink (1735) - | Open Culture - http://www.openculture.com/2014...

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"Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) was also apparently a coffee enthusiast. So much so that he wrote a composition about the beverage. Although known mostly for his liturgical music, his Coffee Cantata (AKA Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht, BWV 211) is a rare example of a secular work by the composer. The short comic opera was written (circa 1735) for a musical ensemble called The Collegium Musicum based in a storied Zimmerman’s coffee house in Leipzig, Germany. The whole cantata seems very much to have been written with the local audience in mind." - maitani - -

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AWOL - The Ancient World Online: Ancient Philosophy Source - http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.de/2014...

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"Presocratics Source presents the transcription of the famous collection of Presocratic thinkers in ninety chapters originally edited by H. Diels and W. Kranz (Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, ed. by H. Diels-W. Kranz, 3 vols., Weidmann, Berlin, 19582), with the parallel Italian translation edited by G. Giannantoni (I Presocratici. Testimonianze e frammenti, a cura di G. Giannantoni, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 19832)." - maitani - -

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Study 40+ Languages with Free Lessons from the U.S. Foreign Service Institute - | Open Culture - http://www.openculture.com/2014...

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A lot of these are really old. I tried to use the Korean one last year, but found it was done in the 50s and 60s. (The "new" text is from 1968!) In the past 40+ years, Romanization of Hangul has been streamlined, a lot of words are no longer used in favor of more Korean words and even pronunciations/spellings have changed. - maitani - -

"I spent this afternoon chatting with a travel writer about how we first allowed ourselves to start learning foreign languages. That notion may sound a bit odd, especially to those of you living in countries where everyone grows up trilingual. But Americans — even American travelers — have struggled with the concept of mastering languages other than English. Sometimes it has seemed merely unnecessary; at other times, downright impossible. But no matter our nationality, our increasingly globalized 21st-century lives have put to rest any and all excuses in which we might dress up our linguistic parochialism. Technology has also done more than its share, given the ever-growing abundance of free and effective language-learning resources on the internet. Take for example, our pretty massive list of Free Foreign Language Lessons. Or discover this trove of language learning resources from the U.S. Foreign Service Institute, a government agency long tasked with teaching the widest possible variety of tongues to diplomats and other officials stationed abroad. Though produced several decades ago, the lessons are still relevant …. and, more importantly, they’re in the public domain." - maitani - -

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Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog: The Mediterranean route into Europe (Paschou et al. 2014) - http://dienekes.blogspot.de/2014...

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"An interesting new (open access) paper in PNAS includes some new data from Crete, the Dodecanese, Cappadocia, and several other Greek (and a few non-Greek) populations, and proposes that the Neolithic followed an island-hopping migration into Europe. This is a study on modern populations that nicely complements the recent ancient mtDNA paper from PPNB which found an affinity to Neolithic Near Eastern populations among the modern inhabitants of Cyprus and Crete." - maitani - -

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THE ENLIGHTENMENT AND THE DEATH OF GOD | Pandaemonium - http://kenanmalik.wordpress.com/2014...

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"There are two aspects to what we call the death of God. The first is the decline of religious belief. The second is the growth of a new kind of faith – faith in the capacity of humans to act without guidance from beyond. What I want to suggest is that the decline of religious belief has been overplayed. But faith in human capacities has been undervalued. We have been so obsessed by idea of the decline of religious belief that we have almost ignored the significance of faith in human capacities – and the decline of that faith in the post-Enlightenment world." - maitani - -

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MetPublications | The Metropolitan Museum of Art - http://www.metmuseum.org/researc...

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"MetPublications is a portal to the Met's comprehensive publishing program with 1,500 titles, including books, online publications, and Bulletins and Journals from the last five decades. MetPublications includes a description and table of contents for most titles, as well as information about the authors, reviews, awards, and links to related Met titles by author and by theme. Current book titles that are in-print may be previewed and fully searched online, with a link to purchase the book. The full contents of almost all other book titles may be read online, searched, or downloaded as a PDF. Many of these out-of-print books will be available for purchase, when rights permit, through print-on-demand capabilities in association with Yale University Press. For the Met's Bulletin, all but the most recent issue can be downloaded as a PDF. For the Met's Journal, all individual articles and entire volumes can be downloaded as a PDF." - maitani - -

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Hap by Thomas Hardy (read by Tom O'Bedlam) - YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch...

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AWOL - The Ancient World Online: Transformation: The Emergence of a Common Culture in the Northern Provinces of the Roman Empire from Britain to the Black Sea up to 212 A.D. - http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.de/2012...

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Summary of the Transformation project: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www2.rgzm.de/trans... ; title="http://www2.rgzm.de/trans... ; - maitani - -

"Under Roman rule in the first two centuries AD there emerged a society similar in appearance from the British Isles to the Black Sea, influenced by the culture and civilisation of the Mediterranean. With this common culture there developed regional characteristics which had their origins in the society and everyday life of pre-Roman times. The aim of the project is to show how these developments took place by looking at a number of thematic areas..." - maitani - -

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Getting started on classical latin - OpenLearn - Open University - http://www.open.edu/openlea...

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"The aim of this unit is to enable you to get started in Latin. It has been developed in response to requests from students who had had no contact with Latin before and who felt they would like to spend a little time preparing for the kind of learning that takes place on a classical language course. The unit will give you a taster of what is involved in the very early stages of learning Latin and will offer you the opportunity to put in some early practice." - maitani - -

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1177 B.C., the year civilization did not collapse - The Unz Review - http://www.unz.com/gnxp...

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Thank you for citing the author's summary, Eivind. It seems that Khan partly presents his own view (which is interesting and thought-provoking as always) without explicitly sorting it from the author's ideas. - maitani - -

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The Only Known Recordings of C.S. Lewis (1944-1948) - | Open Culture - http://www.openculture.com/2014...

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"When we come to know the work of novelist and scholar C.S. Lewis, we usually do it through a textual medium — specifically in childhood, through that thrilling written artifact known as The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Often this leads us into the rest of his seven-volume Chronicles of Narnia series (find a free audio version here), and those most deeply intrigued by the worldview that shaped that high-fantasy world may find themselves eventually reading even Lewis’ Christian apologetics, of which 1952′s well-known Mere Christianity came as only the first. That book drew its content from a series of theological lectures Lewis gave on BBC radio between 1942 and 1944, during the Second World War. Little material from these talks survives — in fact, we have precious few minutes of his voice on tape in any context, and nothings at all of him on film — but you can hear about fifteen minutes of it in the clips above and below." - maitani - -

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Savage capitalism is back – and it will not tame itself | David Graeber | Comment is free | The Guardian - http://www.theguardian.com/comment...

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"In other words, what happened in western Europe and North America between roughly 1917 and 1975 – when capitalism did indeed create high growth and lower inequality – was something of a historical anomaly. There is a growing realisation among economic historians that this was indeed the case. There are many theories as to why. Adair Turner, former chairman of the Financial Services Authority, suggests it was the particular nature of mid-century industrial technology that allowed both high growth rates and a mass trade union movement. Piketty himself points to the destruction of capital during the world wars, and the high rates of taxation and regulation that war mobilisation allowed. Others have different explanations." - maitani - -

No aspetta, guarda che il passo importante dell'articolo è questo: "we are still talking about a man [Piketty] who, having demonstrated capitalism is a gigantic vacuum cleaner sucking wealth into the hands of a tiny elite, insists that we do not simply unplug the machine, but try to build a slightly smaller vacuum cleaner sucking in the opposite direction." - maitani - -

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Happy Birthday Tetris! « Mind Hacks - http://mindhacks.com/2014...

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"As well as hijacking the minds and twitchy fingers of puzzle-gamers for 30 years, Tetris has also been involved in some important psychological research. My favourite is Kirsh and Maglio’s work on “epistemic action“, which showed how Tetris players prefer to rotate the blocks in the game world rather than mentally. This using the world in synchrony with your mental representations is part of what makes it so immersive, I argue." - maitani - -

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Garden Days at The Cloisters | The Metropolitan Museum of Art - http://www.metmuseum.org/visit...

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"Special gallery talks in our gardens will address some of the key features of the historical pleasure garden, related horticultural practices, and the creation and cultivation of the gardens at The Cloisters. The plants grown in a medieval pleasure garden were naturally valued for their beauty and their ability to please the senses of sight and smell. We'll discuss the herbs and flowers grown in our gardens that were particularly prized for their beauty and fragrance." - maitani - -

"Join us at The Cloisters museum and gardens this weekend, June 7 and 8, to celebrate Garden Days! Our theme for this year's program is the medieval pleasure garden. Ultimately derived from Persian and Islamic sources, the medieval enclosed garden was practical as well as symbolic, evoking both earthly and spiritual pleasures. The creation of an earthly paradise is a recurrent theme in medieval works of art and literature." - maitani - -

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Pioneering hypertext project Xanadu released after 54 years - http://kottke.org/14...

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Try it online here: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://xanadu.com/xanadem... ; title="http://xanadu.com/xanadem... ; - maitani - -

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One of the greatest ideas of all time (hypertext and hypermedia in general). - maitani - -

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Is Learning a Foreign Language a Waste of Time? - Languages Of The World | Languages Of The World - http://languagesoftheworld.info/geoling...

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"In an op-ed piece entitled “What You (Really) Need to Know,” published in the New York Times in January 2012, Lawrence Summers, former president of Harvard University and former secretary of the Treasury, calls on universities to reduce the substantial investments made to teach students foreign languages. Though he understands that “it is essential that the educational experience breed cosmopolitanism”, he thinks that the efforts made to master a foreign tongue are no longer “universally worthwhile”. In his utopian worldview, English is perfectly sufficient for such utilitarian purposes as “doing business in Asia, treating patients in Africa, or helping resolve conflicts in the Middle East”. In his excellent rejoinder, Paul Cohen, an associate professor of history at the University of Toronto, highlights the “heavy political and social valence” carried by “this particular dream of a linguistically unified world”. In his view, the spread of English “is at once a consequence and an instrument of …imperial power”, first British and now American, just as other languages promoted, and were promoted by, other empires in the past (for an excellent overview, see Nicholas Ostler’s Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World). As Cohen argues, instead of being a step towards global harmony, “to cease teaching languages is quite simply a recipe for cultivating anti-American resentment around the world”." - maitani - -

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The Smart Set: Into the Black - May 21, 2014 - http://thesmartset.com/article...

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"Francisco Goya was felled by a mysterious illness in 1792. He didn’t die, he just fell. The illness made him dizzy and disoriented. Goya stumbled; he teetered. He was nauseous. Voices sounded in his head. He was frequently in terror. His hearing began to fail. Soon, he was completely deaf. By all accounts, he was temporarily insane at points. Then he recovered, though he would never regain his hearing." - maitani - -

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"Until an illness drove him mad, Goya was simply a Spanish court painter. But in his portraits of the Altamira family, had the darkness already begun to stir?" - By Morgan Meis - maitani - -

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A Calendar Page for June 2014 - Medieval manuscripts blog - http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digitis...

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"In these calendar pages for the month of June, the agricultural labours for the summer are beginning in earnest. In the first roundel of our calendar pages, we see a peasant at work scything in grass in a field surrounded by a wattled fence (beautifully highlighted with gold paint). Behind him a man and a woman are similarly employed, while in the background there is a gorgeous landscape characteristic of Bruges illumination of the period, with a peasant’s hut, spired buildings, a manor house, and even a windmill. On the facing folio, below a lobster-like crab for the zodiac sign Cancer, there is a charming summer scene. Four young boys have cast their clothes aside and are swimming and playing in a local river." - maitani - -

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Mirages of the Mind http://www.chapatimystery.com/archive...

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"The early books of famed Urdu satirist Mustaq Ahmed Yousufi (b. 1922), Chiragh Talay (1961) and Khakam-e Badhan (1969), functioned in the college space for us in Lahore as cigarettes function in a prison camp – a currency, a momentary respite, a surge, and a day dream. We used to crack jokes from his oeuvre claiming them as they were uttered. He was not very well liked by my elders, however. They found him a poor replacement for the other satirists at play, Pitras Bukhari or Mustanssar Hussain Tarad or often Ibn-e Insha. Yet he was beloved by us near-adults as a rock star." - maitani - -

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Irresistible El Greco http://www.nybooks.com/article...

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"For many of the four hundred years since the death of Domenikos Theotokopoulos, the artist known to his Spanish neighbors as El Greco, his work was regarded with the same disdain as that of his younger contemporary Caravaggio. If Caravaggio’s detractors vowed that, as Poussin put it, he had “come into the world to ruin painting,” the Greek who made his career in the land of Don Quixote was “contemptible and ridiculous, as much for the disjointed drawing as for the insipid colors.” In the nineteenth century, El Greco’s monumental Burial of the Count of Orgaz lay rolled up and despised in a basement of the Toledan church of Santo Tomé, the venue for which he had painted it in 1586–1588 (and where it hangs again today in glory)." - maitani - -

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Figure out German animal names with this handy flow chart http://twentytwowords.com/figure-...

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From now on I shall use the term "shield toad" to describe tortoises. - maitani - -

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That mostly goes for Norwegian, as well. We feel the dugong look more like a sea /cow/, though, and we don't see a pig in the porpoise. On the other branch, Turkey has a completely different name in Norwegian and we named the squid (and octopus. We separate them by saying how many armed they are) "ink squirter" :) (The Swedes also thinks it's an ink /fish/, btw.) - maitani - -

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A Master List of 1,000 Free Courses From Top Universities: 30,000 Hours of Audio/Video Lectures http://www.openculture.com/2014...

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Awesome. Thanks for sharing! - maitani - -

"Right now you’ll find 113 free philosophy courses, 78 free history courses, 100 free computer science courses, and 54 free physics courses in the collection, and that’s just beginning to scratch the surface. You can peruse sections covering Astronomy, Biology, Business, Chemistry, Economics, Engineering, Literature, Math, Political Science, Psychology and Religion." - maitani - -

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Deep Habits: My Office in the Woods http://calnewport.com/blog...

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"Case in point: I recently found a new hidden work location here on the Georgetown campus that I think trumps any previous spot I’ve found in terms of its ability to eliminate distraction and foster depth:" - maitani - -

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