Category Archives: humanities

promote mental health

Posted on Wednesday, 2003 August 20 by Anton

Abolish High School!

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1778

Posted on Tuesday, 2003 August 19 by Anton

Rethinking the Articles of Confederation, by Scott Trask The American confederation was destined to become a free-trade area, even without a consolidated union. Hamilton, in Federalist No. 12, all but admitted, and complained, that such would be the case. He … Continue reading →

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etymology

Posted on Sunday, 2003 August 17 by Anton

I wonder: Minbar, name of a planet in Babylon 5, could be Elvish for ‘first home’.

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tax matters

Posted on Tuesday, 2003 August 12 by Anton

Carl Worden writes in Sierra Times: Now pinch yourself and review this astonishing turn of events: A highly trained and educated federal prosecutor in Memphis was unable to convince 12 American citizens that Vernice Kuglin was required to pay federal … Continue reading →

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naming the polytopes

Posted on Monday, 2003 August 11 by Anton

The Pythagoreans, legend has it, saw each of the regular solids as a symbol of one of the elements: tetrahedron fire, octahedron air, icosahedron water, cube earth — leaving the dodecahedron to stand for the universe, or quintessence, or spirit. … Continue reading →

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transported by melody

Posted on Tuesday, 2003 August 05 by Anton

Honda Prelude; Hyundai Sonata; what other cars have musical names?

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Sunnydalish

Posted on Saturday, 2003 August 02 by Anton

Can you speak Buffy? Now the witty diction of Buffy the Vampire Slayer has been accorded the academic respect that it deserves in Professor Michael Adams’s Slayer Slang (Oxford University Press). Under headings such as ‘The Attraction of Prefixes’ and … Continue reading →

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