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After learning new words, brain sees them as pictures http://www.sciencedaily.c...

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"When we look at a known word, our brain sees it like a picture, not a group of letters needing to be processed. That's the finding from a new study that shows the brain learns words quickly by tuning neurons to respond to a complete word, not parts of it." - maitani - -

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I'm not fluent in Spanish, but I think there must be groups on the internet whose members offer something like that. - maitani - -

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‘The Summit,’ by Ed Conway http://www.nytimes.com/20...

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"For many people, Bretton Woods stands for that rarest of moments: when governments and experts come together to restore order to a chaotic global economy. After the financial meltdown of 2008, the president of the World Bank and the financier George Soros joined Bill Clinton’s and Tony Blair’s earlier call for a “new Bretton Woods.” It didn’t happen. The world and especially America may yet come to regret that." - maitani - -

"To its admirers, many good things were achieved at the Bretton Woods conference over three hectic weeks in the summer of 1944. As the Allies made their final push to liberate Europe, 730 representatives of 44 countries gathered in New Hampshire to set the rules for the postwar economy. Crowded into the half-restored grandeur of a hotel named after nearby Mount Washington, they agreed to create two new institutions to oversee the world economy, the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, and to establish a managed system of exchange rates." - maitani - -

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The ancient city that's crumbling away - BBC News - http://www.bbc.com/news...

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"As a lover of language, I am convinced that certain combinations of letters have in them some innate magic - like Kubla Khan, or Xanadu, or Nineveh. So allow the words Mohenjo Daro to roll slowly off your tongue. And let me tell you about this ancient city, rediscovered nearly 100 years ago, but which had its heyday 4,000 years ago." - maitani - -

"The ancient city of Mohenjo Daro was one of the world's earliest major urban settlements - but as Razia Iqbal found on a recent visit to Pakistan, its remains are in danger of crumbling away." - maitani - -

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Intellectual character of conspiracy theorists – Quassim Cassam – Aeon - http://aeon.co/magazin...

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"Why do some people believe conspiracy theories? It’s not just who or what they know. It’s a matter of intellectual character" - maitani - -

"Meet Oliver. Like many of his friends, Oliver thinks he is an expert on 9/11. He spends much of his spare time looking at conspiracist websites and his research has convinced him that the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, DC, of 11 September 2001 were an inside job. The aircraft impacts and resulting fires couldn’t have caused the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center to collapse. The only viable explanation, he maintains, is that government agents planted explosives in advance. He realises, of course, that the government blames Al-Qaeda for 9/11 but his predictable response is pure Mandy Rice-Davies: they would say that, wouldn’t they?" - maitani - -

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Turmeric & Saffron: Nowruz - Persian New Year 2015 - http://turmericsaffron.blogspot.de/2015...

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Storchencam | Storchennest-Hoechstadt.de - http://www.storchennest-hoechstadt.de/live-ca...

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Russian roots and Yemen's Socotra language - Al Jazeera English - http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth...

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"Socotri's origins are close to the oldest written Semitic tongues that died out thousands of years ago" - maitani - -

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"Socotri's roots are close to the oldest written Semitic tongues that died out thousands of years ago - and it has grammatical features that no longer exist in Arabic, Hebrew or Aramaic. The study of Socotri helps understand the deep, prehistoric past - and the subsequent evolution - of all Semitic tongues." - maitani - -

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Babel's Dawn: In Praise of Verbs - http://www.babelsdawn.com/babels_...

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maitaini başkan fetfirikte ekitappaylaşımdan sonra ilk üye olduğum insandı :'ı - maitani - -

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Thomas Piketty Interview About the European Financial Crisis - SPIEGEL ONLINE - http://www.spiegel.de/interna...

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"In an interview with SPIEGEL, celebrated French economist Thomas Piketty speaks about Alexis Tsipras' election victory in Greece, Europe's inability to fix its financial woes and what EU leaders can learn from the United States." - maitani - -

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Many gods, many voices: the Murty Classical Library is uncovering India’s dazzling literary history - http://www.newstatesman.com/culture...

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"From around the beginning of the Common Era for a millennium, Sanskrit held a long, unbroken sway as the language of power and culture before being contested by vernacular languages. Knowledge of Sanskrit would certainly unlock a large quantity of classical Indian literature for modern readers but – as with Europe and Latin – it is possessed by only a select few. Yet Sanskrit allowed Prakrit languages, the “natural” or informal languages, to flourish in a way that, over time, gave them enough power, complexity and confidence to overthrow it as the language of literary production." - maitani - -

"Classical Indian literary tradition is dizzyingly multicultural and multilingual. The vastness of the subcontinent and the number of peoples and languages it contains ensured this plurality. Administratively, too, a state of multum in parvo prevailed: successions of empires and dynasties only ever managed to rule limited (if large) parts, leaving autonomous regions under different powers. No one empire before the central Asian clan that came to be known in the 16th century as the Mughals managed to bring far-flung areas under a centralised administration and local societies continued to exist even under their expanding rule." - maitani - -

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Five tales of good and evil https://kenanmalik.wordpress.com/2015...

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"Today being World Book Day, I am publishing five extracts from my book The Quest for a Moral Compass, that explore five books from the ancient and medieval worlds, some well-known, some almost forgotten, but all of which have helped shape our thinking about right and wrong, good and evil – Homer’s Iliad, a foundation stone of Ancient Greek culture; the Mahabharata, the first of the two great epics of Hinduism; Mozi, the only work we have of ancient China’s forgotten philosopher Mo Tzu; the Book of Job from the Pentateuch (or the Old Testament in the Christian tradition); and Hayy Ibn Yaqan, an Islamic masterpiece from the twelfth century that today is almost unknown. (The extract on the Book of Job is not actually an extract – it is a section of The Quest for Moral Compass that I had to cut from the final version to keep the ms to length, so it’s a bonus here.)" - maitani - -

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A Calendar Page for March 2015 - Medieval manuscripts blog - http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digitis...

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"In this month’s border decoration, a roundel for the Feast of the Annunciation is suspended from a perpendicular gothic column. This elaborate architectural design itself encloses a scene showing the Mass of St Gregory, who died on 12th March 604. According to Paul the Deacon’s 8th-century biography of Gregory, the Man of Sorrows appeared as Gregory celebrated mass as Pope, in response to his prayers to convince someone of the doctrine of transubstantiation – that is, Christ’s physical presence in the consecrated host." - maitani - -

"At the top of the page, there is the Zodiac sign for March: Aries the Ram. At the bottom, there is another scene of agricultural industriousness. Three peasants labour in a fenced-off garden: the men digging and planting fruit trees, the woman pulling up weeds. They are overseen by a gentlewoman, who is holding a small lapdog in her arms, and her female attendant. A large and imposing building, presumably the woman’s residence, stands in the background." - maitani - -

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The Archaeobotanist: Mesolithic cereal trade in Europe? - http://archaeobotanist.blogspot.de/2015...

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"This report is sure to be heavily debated, and I guess many archaeologists will reject this out of hand. But that is perhaps like the ostrich with its head in the sand. I would certainly be happier with an AMS-dated cereal grain, but this new evidence tells us we need to be actively looking for those Pre-Neolithic traded grains." - maitani - -

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AWOL - The Ancient World Online: New Online from the CHS - Shubha Pathak, Divine yet Human Epics: Reflections of Poetic Rulers from Ancient Greece and India - http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.de/2015...

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"New Online from the CHS - Shubha Pathak, Divine yet Human Epics: Reflections of Poetic Rulers from Ancient Greece and India" - maitani - -

"Acknowledgments Note on Texts and Translations Introduction. Defining Epics through Comparison 1. The Epic Identity of the Iliad and Odyssey: Pindar and Herodotus’ Lofty Legacy 2. The Epic Metaphor of the Rāmāyaṇa and Mahābhārata: Ānandavardhana and Rājaśekhara’s Expedient Influence 3. Listening to Achilles and to Odysseus: Poetic Kings on the Ideal of Kléos in the Homeric Epics 4. Hearkening to Kuśa and Lava and to Nala: Poetic Monarchs on the Ideal of Dharma in the Hindu Epics Conclusion. Affirmative and Interrogative Epics Bibliography" - maitani - -

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AWOL - The Ancient World Online: Online Library of Digitized Sanskrit and Prakrit Manuscript Catalogues - http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.de/2015...

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"The principle of arrangement follows: Subhas. C. Biswas Bibliographic Survey of Indian Manuscript Catalogues. Being a Union List of Manuscript Catalogues (Delhi: Eastern Book Linkers, 1998)." - maitani - -

"This collection of manuscript catalogues is derived almost entirely from the Digital Library of India. Some come from the Archive.org and the Jain eLibrary. A great debt of gratitude is due to all these resources for selflessly promoting scholarship." - maitani - -

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AWOL - The Ancient World Online: Pass the Garum: Eating like the Ancients - http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.de/2015...

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"In history we tend to look at the big things - the battles, the baddies, the plot and the intrigue - but sometimes it's the average and the everyday which impress most, giving us the tiniest of glimpses into the lives of the long dead." - maitani - -

"Why 'Pass the Garum'? Garum was a fermented fish sauce which the Romans loved to put in EVERYTHING. So, much as we might say 'pass the salt', a Roman might ask their toga-clad chum to 'pass the garum'. Why food history? I love food, and enjoy cooking. I also love history - I did my degree in Ancient History, and now teach everything else. So, why not combine the two and make something of it? Besides that, I like the little extra insight it gives me into the people of the past. What food will you work with? I am going to start with primarily Roman cuisine - it was Roman food and Roman recipes which got me interested in the topic after all. Once I run out of Roman recipes, I'll set sail and explore the rest of the ancient Mediterranean." - maitani - -

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Wide Urban World: How do big cities differ from small cities (in the ancient past and today)? - http://wideurbanworld.blogspot.de/2015...

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"Are big cities different from smaller cities mainly in their size? Or do they differ in other ways that go beyond simple population size? Recent research on urban scaling has answered this question definitively for contemporary cities. Large cities ARE different from smaller cities in ways that transcend their size. They aren't simply larger. Yet many of the changes that come with size turn out to be linked systematically to population size." - maitani - -

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Questo credo che succeda perché le regole della geometria euclidea si applicano a tutte le città. - maitani - -

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Jayarava's Raves: The Very Idea of Buddhist History - http://jayarava.blogspot.de/2015...

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"Readers may know that there is a split in Buddhist studies. On one side are religious traditionalists and mainly British scholars (particularly Richard Gombrich and Wynne at Oxford) who see the early Buddhist texts as a more or less accurate account of Buddhist history. On the other side are religious sceptics (yours truly) and mainly American scholars (particularly Greg Schopen and Don Lopez) who don't think there is anything authentically historical in the suttas." - maitani - -

"We know this: there is a body of literature we associate with early Buddhism and the early phase of sectarian Buddhism. This literature is preserved, in a language we now call Pali, in major collections of manuscripts in Sri Lanka, Burma and Thailand, with minor collections in Laos, Vietnam and perhaps other places. Substantial parts of several other recensions are preserved in Middle-Chinese in China, Japan and Korea (the most influential modern edition of the Chinese Canon, the Taishō, is based on a recension preserved in Korean) both in manuscript form and in printed editions. Fragments of several recensions are preserved in Gāndhārī, Buddhist Sanskrit, and Tibetan collections." - maitani - -

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Whence Willow Wattle? http://www.metmuseum.org/visit...

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"Medieval woodlands were carefully managed, producing so-called small wood by pollarding (pruning a tree from the top to promote growth well above ground level) and coppicing (cutting a tree back almost to the ground to foster new growth from the stump). Pollarding and coppicing were carried out on a regular rotation, and the resulting new growth provided a steady supply of wood for firewood, tool handles, building materials, wattle, baskets, and other purposes. The new, flexible willow shoots are known by a number of very old terms, including osiers and withies. Willow is one of several species of trees that can be hard pruned by pollarding or coppicing, and it was medieval custom to harvest willow and hazel in February. The topic of medieval woodlands and their management is a fascinating one, and I refer curious readers to the work of the late historical ecologist Oliver Rackham." - maitani - -

"An attractive feature of the Bonnefont Herb Garden in winter and early spring is the distinctive wattle used in the raised beds. Medieval gardens, orchards, and property boundaries were enclosed in a variety of ways, including by hedges and wattle fences. In the Bonnefont Herb Garden, our wattle, or hurdles (pictured above), of various heights edge the beds and support the plants. The hurdles and supports are made from willow from the Somerset Levels (wetlands) in England; willow has been grown and woven in Somerset since the late Iron Age. Willow work is still commercially produced in the region and the same family has made our wattle elements for many years." - maitani - -

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From cattle herders to tax farmers - The Unz Review - http://www.unz.com/gnxp...

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"Reading Strange Parallels, Southeast Asian in a Global Context, I have begun to think about the differences between the eruption of Inner Asian nomads in the early modern period, and in prehistory. The author points out that the arrival of Mughals, and even to a greater extent the Manchu, to the ancient and dense civilizations of South and East Asia did not change the cultural substrate in the main." - maitani - -

"Yes, Turco-Persian Islamic (“Islamicate”) culture became both prestigious and relatively popular in South Asia. But it was, and still is, a minority tradition set against the indigenous religious system, bracketed under the term Hindu today. In Ching China the Manchu had an even less obvious effect. Arguably they assimilated to the Neo-Confucian mores of the Han elite far more than the Mughals did in India in relation to indigenous South Asian gentry." - maitani - -

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Snowy Days at The Cloisters http://www.metmuseum.org/visit...

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European languages linked to migration from the east http://www.nature.com/news...

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What's new on BHO https://www.british-history.ac.uk/news

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"British History Online (BHO) is pleased to launch version 5.0 of its website. Work on the website redevelopment began in January 2014 and involved a total rebuild of the BHO database and a complete redesign of the site. We hope our readers will find the new site easier to use than ever before." - maitani - -

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Open Access Ebooks / Publications / The American School of Classical Studies at Athens - http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/index...

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"Many volumes within the Corinth ("Red Book"), Athenian Agora ("Blue Book"), and Hesperia Supplement series are out of print, and there are no plans to reprint the volumes at least for the next few years. In 2014, the Publications Committee of the ASCSA's Managing Committee voted unanimously to allow PDFs of these out-of-print volumes to be posted to the ASCSA's website as Open Access. You may freely read, download, and share these files under the BY-NC-ND Creative Commons license (non-commercial use; you must cite the ASCSA as the source; you may not make derivatives). The scans were created by JSTOR, and through the ASCSA's Content Sharing Agreement with JSTOR, we can make these PDFs available to individuals at no charge." - maitani - -

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