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as we approach the endgame https://kenanmalik.wordpr...

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"We are approaching the endgame of the protracted negotiations between Greece and the EU over its debt. Last Sunday’s referendum, in which the Greek people decisively rejected the previous EU austerity package, was supposed to have strengthened the Greek government’s hand in the negotiations. The new Greek proposals submitted on Thursday accept, however, an even greater degree of austerity than that rejected by the Greek people. Against this background, it is worth reiterating some basic points about Greece, the EU and the bailout:" - maitani - -

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A Primer on the Greek Crisis by Anil Kashiap http://faculty.chicagoboo... - maitani - -

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Obstgärten am Alten Main http://i.imgur.com/7In2kY...

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Digital.Bodleian makes these extraordinary library collections available online for the very first time... http://digital.bodleian.o...

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Greece's mass psychology of revolt will survive the financial carpet-bombing http://www.theguardian.co... http://i.guim.co.uk/img/m...

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Carefully constructed: the language of Franz Kafka http://blog.oxforddiction... http://ukcatalogue.oup.co...

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"A few months ago I took part in a discussion of Kafka on Melvyn Bragg’s radio programme In Our Time. One of the other participants asserted that Kafka’s style describes horrific events in the emotionally deadpan tone of a bureaucrat report. This struck me immediately as wrong in lots of ways. I didn’t disagree, because time was short, and because I wouldn’t want to seem to be scoring points of a colleague. But it occurred to me that the speaker, a professor of English Literature, had probably only read Kafka in English, and only in the old translations by Willa and Edwin Muir. The Muirs’ translations are beautifully expressed (though not always accurate), but they read rather greyly, and have no doubt contributed to the view that Kafka, himself a civil servant, introduced into literature the language of bureaucracy." - maitani - [ 1 ] -

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

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"The agrarian labours continue in this month’s bas-de-page scene. Amidst a gently rolling landscape, two men are mowing grass with scythes. To the left, a woman is using a pitchfork to turn the grass to dry into hay in the sunshine. Another woman approaches from the background, bearing a basket on her head and a satchel in her hand – perhaps containing refreshments for the workers. Note how the artist has included little details to convey a sense of the midsummer heat: the broad-brimmed hats the labourers are wearing to protect their faces from the sun, and the rolled-up sleeves of the man on the right. The roundels for July show the key religious dates for the month: the Visitation of the Virgin Mary, the Translation of the Relics of St Thomas the Apostle, and the feast days of St Benedict, St Mary Magdalene, and Sts James and Christopher. A lion – the Zodiac sign for Leo – is included as a header in the calendar." - maitani - -

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Oldenburg http://i.imgur.com/soPz6v...

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Ancient World Image Bank http://isaw.nyu.edu/onlin... https://farm9.staticflick...

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"The Ancient World Image Bank is a collaborative effort to distribute and encourage the sharing of free digital imagery for the study of the ancient world. ISAW started AWIB by distributing imagery donated by its faculty, staff, and students via Flickr under a Creative Commons Attribution (cc-by) license. You can view and download those images via the isawnyu flickr account. That means that all you have to do to reuse one of our images is cite it in the manner indicated below." - maitani - -

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Water, water, everywhere: how we named the oceans http://blog.oxforddiction... http://cdn.oxwordsblog.wp...

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"Happy World Oceans Day! To celebrate, we’re taking a look at the linguistic roots of the world’s five oceans. Before we start, what of ocean itself? The word comes to English via Latin from the Greek ōkeanos, which meant ‘great stream encircling the earth’s disc’. The word ocean originally denoted the whole body of water which the ancient Greeks believed to encompass the earth’s (supposed) single land mass; ocean was used to contrast with known inland seas, such as the Mediterranean (literally ‘in the middle of land’)." - maitani - -

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Open sesame: Making sesame seeds a growth area in global food production http://www.sciencedaily.c... http://images.sciencedail...

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"Many people think of sesame seeds as a topping on hamburger buns at profitable global fast-food chains. But in fact the crop has traditionally been unprofitable and difficult to harvest because it produces a low yield. A high percentage of sesame seeds grown are not suitable for human consumption." - maitani - -

"Now a Hebrew University of Jerusalem agricultural researcher has discovered a way to increase the yield and nutritional quality of this important but challenging food crop." - maitani - -

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Sweetness around the world http://blog.oup.com/2015/... http://blog.oup.com/wp-co...

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"No matter where in the world you go, pastries are a universal treat. From Turkish baklava to Italian cannolis, French croissants to American cherry pie, these morsels of sweetness are a culinary tradition that knows no borders. Whether you’re boarding an overseas flight or hanging around the neighborhood, we’ve hand-picked several pastry shops from the Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets to add to your personal itinerary." - maitani - [ 1 ] -

IIRC there were mesopotamian sweet recipes, thus I suppose they're quite universal. - Haukr - [ 1 ] -

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Garden Days at The Cloisters http://www.metmuseum.org/... http://i.imgur.com/5oesQI...

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"The beautiful margins of this manuscript are filled with birds and other small animals. Attributed to Jean Le Noir (French, active 1331–75). The Prayer Book of Bonne of Luxembourg, Duchess of Normandy (detail), before 1349. Made in Paris, France. French. Tempera, grisaille, ink, and gold on vellum." - maitani - -

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Now I looked them all up (I mean, the birds and the translations). I hadn't noticed the mallard on the left. :-) - maitani - [ 1 ] -

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The Aryan Invasion Was Not Fantasy http://www.unz.com/gnxp/t... http://www.unzcloud.com/w...

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"If there is one Peter Heather book you should read because it is timely, it is Empires and Barbarians: The Fall of Rome and the Birth of Europe. In it Heather makes an apologia for a revisionist view which resurrects some aspects of the old folk migration theories, and understandings of the arrival of barbarians into the collapsing Roman order of the middle of the first millennium. This is in contrast to the conventional view of modern archaeologists and historians which posits that the barbarian invasion was more a change of power to the elites, with the emergence of ethnic identities and coalitions almost in an ad hoc fashion among groups of mercenaries who took control from their paymasters. Heather does not posit total replacement of the indigenous population." - maitani - -

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Dürer’s Devil Within by Andrew Butterfield | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books - http://www.nybooks.com/blogs...

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"In the summer of 1494, soon after his engagement, Albrecht Dürer made a startlingly intimate drawing of his fiancée Agnes Frey. One might have expected a twenty-three-year-old to depict his betrothed as a source of love, or comfort or well-being, all the more since her substantial dowry would soon launch his independent career. Instead, Albrecht showed Agnes twisted up in a knot of anxious introversion. She looks withdrawn and preoccupied, and the circles under her heavy-lidded eyes may even make one think she has been crying." - maitani - -

"In its frank portrayal of an informal moment of unguarded emotion, there had never been a drawing quite like this before. Typically portraiture was honorific and meant to represent the exemplary virtues of the person shown; Dürer instead often sought to capture the idiosyncratic and psychological characteristics of the people he portrayed. He was fascinated with the close scrutiny of dark and brooding emotion. This is especially evident in his self-portraits, many of which show him in states of melancholy, doubt, or disease. Consider the self-portrait that he drew at the age of thirteen. It is made in ravishingly fine silverpoint, yet his large, staring eyes have a curiously anxious and unsettled look. The precocity evident in this sheet is not only in the flawless technique, but also in the impulse to self-examination." - maitani - -

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Schadenfreude Is in the Zeitgeist, but Is There an Opposite Term? http://www.wsj.com/articl...

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"Word for taking pain in another’s pleasure is ‘gluckschmerz,’ or is it?" - maitani - [ 1 ] -

This is a wonderful article. It's a story, really. :-) - maitani - -

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Into, out of, and across the Eurasian steppe http://dienekes.blogspot.... http://4.bp.blogspot.com/...

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"A new paper in Nature adds to the earlier study in the same journal by presenting data from 101 ancient Eurasians. The year is not yet halfway over, but it seems that the ancient DNA field is moving towards a new norm of studying dozens of individuals at a time and comprehensively tackling the "big problems" that have vexed archaeologists, linguists, and historians for decades if not centuries." - maitani - [ 1 ] -

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this study is really interesting for quite a few reasons. Dienekes points out certain consequences for specialistic subjects, but there are also some conclusions that can be perceived by everyone, such as ones concerning the light skin or the lactose intolerance. - Haukr - [ 1 ] -

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Changing languages http://blog.oup.com/2015/... http://blog.oup.com/wp-co...

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"In the literature on language death and language renewal, two cases come up again and again: Irish and Hebrew. Mention of the former language is usually attended by a whiff of disapproval. It was abandoned relatively recently by a majority of the Irish people in favour of English, and hence is quoted as an example of a people rejecting their heritage. Hebrew, on the other hand, is presented as a model of linguistic good behaviour: not only was it not rejected by its own people, it was even revived after being dead for more than two thousand years, and is now thriving." - maitani - -

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The world's longest (and scariest) glass pedestrian bridge http://www.3quarksdaily.c... http://www.3quarksdaily.c...

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"“[The developer] asked me, ‘What do you think about a bridge from here to there?’ And I said, ‘No,’” Dotan says. “He looked at me and said ‘Why, what are you talking about?’ And I said, ‘Why do you want a bridge? It’s too beautiful.’” The developer pressed him, and Dotan finally relented. “I told him, ‘We can build a bridge but under one condition: I want the bridge to disappear.’” - maitani - -

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Silberteich bei Braunlage, Harz http://i.imgur.com/sU5xl4...

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I so want to go back there! Beautiful. - Kirsten - [ 1 ] -

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Google+ is now an app, along with Maps, Drive, Youtube etc. I discovered it this morning, but perhaps it has been like that for a few days.

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That's what I was talking about http://t3n.de/news/leise-... - maitani - -

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The Atlantic Creoles http://www.slate.com/arti... http://www.slate.com/cont...

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"America’s first slaves were subjugated as much for their cultural alienation as they were for their race." - maitani - -

"The “Atlantic creoles” traced their beginnings to the historic encounter of Europeans and Africans, emerging around the trading factories or feitorias established along the coast of Africa in the 15th century by European expansionists. Many served as intermediaries in this developing crop of transatlantic trading enclaves, employing their linguistic skills and their familiarity with the Atlantic’s diverse commercial practices, cultural conventions, and diplomatic etiquette to mediate between the African merchants and European sea captains. In so doing, some Atlantic creoles identified with their ancestral homeland (or a portion of it)—be it African or European—and served as its representatives in negotiations. Other Atlantic creoles had been won over by the power and largess of one party or another so that Africans entered the employ of European trading companies, and Europeans traded with African potentates." - maitani - [ 1 ] -

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The ‘mullet’ mystery – Episode 23 – The Oxford Comment http://blog.oup.com/2015/... http://i.imgur.com/vomoFr...

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"Often described as ‘business in front, party in the back,’ most everyone is familiar with this infamous hairstyle, which is thought to have been popularized in the 1980s. How, then, could the term have originated as early as 1393, centuries before David Bowie ever rocked it? We embarked on an etymological journey, figuratively traveling back in time to answer what seemed like a simple question: What, exactly, is a mullet? And does it really mean what we think it means." - maitani - [ 1 ] -

I will never agree with that adjective, "infamous", here^^ - Haukr - [ 1 ] -

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Weinberge am Main https://lh4.googleusercon...

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RIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEESLING JEEEEEEEENKINS - Pete Smith - -

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Beautiful Illustrations of Words with No English Equivalent http://twistedsifter.com/... https://twistedsifter.fil...

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"As usual, many of the translations seem to be somewhat more specifically evocative than the words they translate." http://languagelog.ldc.up... - maitani - [ 1 ] -

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Archaeology and the Homeric Question, Part 1 http://oralpoetry.blogspo... http://3.bp.blogspot.com/...

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"In this post I propose to explore the relationship between the discipline of archaeology and the Homeric Question, taking Orchomenos as a jumping off point. In so doing my aim is not so much to show something new about this relationship or to offer a new interpretation of the verses concerning Orchomenos, but rather to take this opportunity to give an overview of an important topic within the history of Homeric scholarship that has many implications for our understanding of the oral tradition in which the Iliad and Odyssey were composed. This post will focus on the history of the relationship between archaeology and the Homeric Question; future posts will address more theoretical aspects." - maitani - -

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