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Repeating aloud to another person boosts recall http://www.sciencedaily.c... http://images.sciencedail...

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"Repeating aloud boosts verbal memory, especially when you do it while addressing another person, says Professor Victor Boucher of the University of Montreal's Department of Linguistics and Translation. His findings are the result of a study that will be published in the next edition of Consciousness and Cognition. "We knew that repeating aloud was good for memory, but this is the first study to show that if it is done in a context of communication, the effect is greater in terms of information recall," Boucher explained." - maitani - -

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THE WATERS OF ROME http://www3.iath.virginia... http://www3.iath.virginia...

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A refereed, on-line journal of occasional papers concerned with water studies and the city of Rome - maitani - -

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Nicht nur Küche https://lh3.googleusercon... https://lh3.googleusercon...

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Inspired by Kirsten :-) - maitani - [ 1 ] -

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What a lovely space! - Kirsten - -

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Languages less arbitrary than long assumed http://www.mpg.de/9675941...

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"Language is less arbitrary than assumed: the sounds and shapes of words can reveal aspects of meaning and grammatical function." - maitani - -

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How to paint with language http://www.mpg.de/7945482... - maitani - -

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A Calendar Page for October 2015 http://britishlibrary.typ... http://a3.typepad.com/6a0...

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"A slightly grisly bas-de-page scene greets us this month: an ox is about to meet its end, while two men barter over the sale of another on the other side of the wall. Other peasants are carrying baskets of grapes to a shed in the distance, where we can see them being pressed to make wine. The roundels contain depictions relating to the major religious festivals of October: the feast day of Saints Bavo and Remigius, St Dionysius/Denis (shown holding his own head), St Donatian, St Luke (with a bull, his Evangelist symbol, in the background) and Saints Simon and Jude. As we noted last month, the artist has mistakenly reversed the order of September and October’s Zodiac symbols: Libra (in the form of scales) being shown here at the top of the page instead of Scorpio." - maitani - -

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Why do all cities have neighborhoods?http://wideurbanworld.blo... http://1.bp.blogspot.com/...

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"It is interesting to note that neighborhoods can form in two very different ways. The most common path throughout history was the bottom-up approach. People living in an area interact with those around them (their neighbors), and eventually clusters or people, or communities, develop on their own out of the day-to-day actions of people. But in some cases, city or government authorities create neighborhoods. They organize cities from the top down, and people move into ready-made neighborhoods." - maitani - -

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Where Do Languages Go to Die? http://www.theatlantic.co... http://cdn.theatlantic.co...

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"If a Middle Eastern man from 2,500 years ago found himself on his home territory in 2015, he would be shocked by the modern innovations, and not just electricity, airplanes, and iPhones. Arabic as an official language in over two dozen countries would also seem as counterintuitive to him as if people had suddenly started keeping aardvarks as pets." - maitani - -

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Providing them with termites and ants might be a bit tricky, I suppose. I didn't even know aardvarks exist before I read this article! - maitani - -

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Shakespeare’s encounter with Michel de Montaigne http://blog.oup.com/2015/... http://blogoup.electricst...

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"Of all the books that Shakespeare encountered – whether he owned them, borrowed them, or flipped through their pages in a bookstall near St. Paul’s – the most original and engrossing may well have been the Essays of Michel de Montaigne as translated by the scholar John Florio. Published in 1603, this work was probably known to Shakespeare even before it appeared in print. Florio, after all, had obtained the patronage of the Earl of Southampton in the early 1590s – the same Earl to whom Shakespeare had dedicated Venus and Adonis in 1593 and The Rape of Lucrece a year later. So there’s every likelihood that the two writers met and talked shop within the Southampton circle. Florio also mentions that half a dozen other scholars had attempted to translate Montaigne, but that none were sufficiently adept in French to succeed at the task. Montaigne, in other words, was something of a sensation in late sixteenth-century London. And Shakespeare, a voracious and opportunistic reader, would have been curious to know whether this was a writer from whom he might learn, take pleasure, or steal." - maitani - -

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King - Man + Woman = Queen: The Marvelous Mathematics of Computational Linguistics http://www.technologyrevi... http://www.technologyrevi...

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"Computational linguistics has dramatically changed the way researchers study and understand language. The ability to number-crunch huge amounts of words for the first time has led to entirely new ways of thinking about words and their relationship to one another." - maitani - -

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I think it should work this way. Unfortunately, I am still stuck at almost no computational linguistics, but I appreciate using its results. :-) - maitani - -

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Löwenmäulchen und Phlox blühen im September https://lh3.googleusercon...

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‘Alphabet,’ From Ancient Greece to Google http://www.wsj.com/articl... http://si.wsj.net/public/...

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"By betting on “Alphabet,” Google is relying on a word that we all learn as children but has only existed in English for about five centuries. In Old English, if you wanted to refer to the alphabet, you would use a word formed from the first four letters: “a-be-ce-de.” In Middle English this was shortened to “a-be-ce,” or as we would now spell it, “ABC.”" - maitani - -

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The Kharoṣṭhī script used in ancient Gandhara (primarily modern-day Afghanistan and Pakistan) was based on an order of letters that has become known as the Arapacana alphabet, which runs a ra pa ca na la da ba ḍa ṣa va... https://en.wikipedia.org/... - maitani - -

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Finding wisdom in Old English http://blog.oup.com/2015/... http://blogoup.electricst...

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"Anglo-Saxon literature is full of advice on how to live a good life. Many Anglo-Saxon poems and proverbs describe the characteristics a wise person should strive to possess, offering counsel on how to treat others and how to obtain and use wisdom in life. Here are some words in Old English (the name we give to the Germanic language spoken by the Anglo-Saxons) that describe what a wise person should aspire to be—and some qualities it’s better to avoid." - maitani - -

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Alter Main bei Köhler http://i.imgur.com/Rl0FWQ...

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Roof garden at the end of summer https://lh3.googleusercon...

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looks like hollyhock... - Halil - [ 1 ] -

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As long as it's protected from the frost ie the roots, it should survive and come back year after year. Don't forget to harvest the seed heads, give them out if you don't need them, they are great flowers and the bees love them! - Halil - [ 1 ] -

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Lost in Translation: Proust and Scott Moncrieff http://publicdomainreview... http://farm3.staticflickr...

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"Scott Moncrieff’s English translation of Proust’s A la recherche du temps perdu is widely hailed as a masterpiece in its own right. His rendering of the title as Remembrance of Things Past is not, however, considered a high point. William C. Carter explores the two men’s correspondence on this somewhat sticky issue and how the Shakespearean title missed the mark regarding Proust’s theory of memory." - maitani - [ 1 ] -

"Proust’s theory of memory rejects the notion that we can simply sit and quietly resurrect the past in its true vividness through what he called voluntary memory. When we attempt to do this, we find that it doesn’t work very well. We remember very little and often only in a haphazard and rather bland way. On the other hand, Proust’s title should be taken to suggest a different approach: the Narrator’s search (recherche means both search and research in French) is an active, arduous quest in which the past must be rediscovered—largely through what Proust called involuntary memory, as demonstrated in the famous madeleine scene—then analyzed and understood, and finally, if your ambition is to preserve it in writing, transposed and recreated in a book. As we will see, Proust lived long enough to see the title Remembrance of Things Past and, while he objected to it, did not take measures to change it." - maitani - [ 1 ] -

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Birth of Music Visualization (Apr, 1924) http://blog.modernmechani... http://tm.durusau.net/wp-...

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"THE audience sat in hushed and wondering expectancy within the darkened theater. Without accompaniment of sound, soft color suddenly glowed upon the screen. Slowly it moved into definite form, its modulation of figures evolving in majestic sweeps. Its hue deepened and then melted radiantly into iridescent crimson, and from the restless, ever-changing shapes a slow rhythm was born. It grew and blossomed, a symphony of light, plastic and mobile. The “clavilux,” as Thomas Wilfred, the inventor, has named the organ, opens the door to a new art, the expression of moving color and form, which the artist-craftsman believes is destined to take a place as a sister of music and sculpture. It has long been the vision of dreamers; Mr. Wilfred has actualized the dream and provided the instrument that visualizes it." - maitani - -

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7 ways Germans get English totally wrong http://www.thelocal.de/20... http://www.thelocal.de/us...

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"As much as English-speakers might feel insecure about their Deutsch skills when faced with Germans' comparatively widespread grasp of English, Germans themselves often mess up English - in some pretty hilarious ways." - maitani - -

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I'm used to Korean using English loanwords, but last week in Korea sent me into a state of shock over had badly English was abused. You can check my flickr photos for some of the weirdest ones. What bothers me most is that if Americans abused foreign languages in the same way, we'd be insulted for being ignorant. Other countries are like, "This is what this means HERE." - faboomama - [ 1 ] -

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When there's no one left to talk to: A guide to endangered languages http://www.hopesandfears....

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"From Auslan to Yagán, a linguist discusses dying languages and the different circumstances that put them at risk." - maitani - [ 1 ] -

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A Calendar Page for September 2015 http://britishlibrary.typ... http://a4.typepad.com/6a0...

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"A distinctly autumnal feel is creeping into the bas-de-page scene of September’s calendar page. Against a grey backdrop, with trees that are beginning to look a little bare, two peasants are ploughing and resowing a field in preparation for next year. There is a look of concentration on the ploughman’s face as he steers two rather sprightly horses and attempts to cut a straight furrow in the soil. Just above his head is a roundel depicting the Archangel Michael, equipped with sword, shield and crossed spear, vanquishing Satan and his demons. The other roundels on this page show St Giles (accompanied by his emblem, a deer), the Nativity of the Virgin Mary, the Exaltation of the Holy Cross and the Martyrdom of St Matthew the Apostle. The artist has mixed up this and October’s Zodiac symbols, erroneously inserting Scorpio here and Libra on the next page." - maitani - -

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Bricks to Blocks: a Lego New York http://bigthink.com/stran... http://assets2.bigthink.c...

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"New York is famous for the grid pattern of its city blocks. Lego is famous for the interlocking bricks that are the foundation stones of its worldwide toy empire. The two were destined to meet, as they do in the art of J.R. Schmidt." - maitani - -

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Europa or frying pan? http://kottke.org/15/08/e... http://also.kottke.org/mi...

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"One of these images is of Europa, Jupiter's icy moon, and the other eight are frying pans. Can you pick Europa out? Hint: frying pans tend not to have impact craters." - maitani - [ 1 ] -

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The Vocabularist: The red-hot history of the word 'brand' http://www.bbc.com/news/b... http://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk...

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"Brand has developed steadily from its fiery Anglo-Saxon roots into two almost contradictory meanings - sometimes denoting identity and reputation, and sometimes a mark of shame, writes Trevor Timpson." - maitani - -

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Hofstadter and Sander wrote about it in _Surfaces and Essences_ - .mau. - [ 1 ] -

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23 Tools and Resources to Create Images for Social Media https://medium.com/social...

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"At Buffer, we create all the images for our blogposts and social media sharing without any outside design help. We rely on a handful of amazing tools and resources to get the job done, and I’ll be happy to share with you the ones we use and the extras that we’ve found helpful or interesting." - maitani - -

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Tengboche Monastery https://whyevolutionistru...

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"Tengboche Monastery. Ama Dablam is to the right, while Everest is (photo from Himalayan Wonders) the small triangle (with the snow plume blowing off the peak) about a quarter of the way from the right. The monastery has a rudimentary guesthouse where you can stay for almost nothing. This is by far my favorite place in the world (so far); one cannot begin to describe how high and majestic these mountains are compared to the many other big peaks I’ve seen." - maitani - -

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Are Rural and Urban always very Different? http://wideurbanworld.blo... http://3.bp.blogspot.com/...

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"...any society which has in it what we commonly call "towns" or "cities" is in all aspects an "urban" society, including its agricultural and extractive domains . . . the terms "urban" and "rural" come to stand to each other not as opposites and equivalents. Rather, the inclusive term describing the whole society is "urban" while the term "rural" refers only to a set of specialties of an urban society characterized by being inherently linked (under any technology known) to specific geographical spaces. (Leeds 1980:6-7)" - maitani - -

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A Flower to Remember http://www.metmuseum.org/... https://lh3.googleusercon...

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"The corn poppy (Papaver rhoeas) is described as an annual weed that thrives on wastelands, roadsides, and neglected fields, and it is most famously associated with battlefields. As a denizen of disturbed lands, the poppy was one of the first and most striking colonizers of a trampled and scarred landscape. Its luminescent red flowers symbolize the blood of the fallen and serve as a reminder of the beauty of life amidst the devastation of war. Dubbed Flanders, or remembrance, poppy, the corn poppy is a symbol of the First World War in contemporary culture." - maitani - -

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