Category Archives: humanities

practicum

Posted on Saturday, 2004 April 10 by Anton

At a Thai restaurant just now, the staff were playing Scrabble. That’s one way to practice a language!

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To Live

Posted on Friday, 2004 April 09 by Anton

I bought a DVD of Kurosawa’s 生きる Ikiru, inferring from the presence of English text on the package that the show would be subtitled. Oops!

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i hate when that happens

Posted on Tuesday, 2004 March 30 by Anton

Larry Trask, a well of linguistic erudition and good humor, has died.

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utopia and a pony

Posted on Sunday, 2004 March 21 by Anton

Micha Ghertner responds to the charge of libertarian utopianism: Neither Barnett nor Friedman exhibits the kind of wishful thinking that Belle Waring lampoons in her much cited blog post. If anything, they argue for just the opposite. It requires a … Continue reading →

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autodidact

Posted on Monday, 2004 February 16 by Anton

How Ben Franklin taught himself to write better

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that’ll teach ’em

Posted on Wednesday, 2004 February 04 by Anton

Brad Edmonds: I Still Owe the Military Nothing Truman bombed Japan because the Japanese demanded as their only condition of surrender that the emperor remain emperor. They continued to demand this after both bombings, so Truman just gave in. The … Continue reading →