Lin-Manuel Rwanda
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Connery was 32 by the time he was cast as James Bond. Before that he’d been a modestly successful competitive bodybuilder and model, and was a talented footballer who’d been scoute...
In parts of west Africa around the Gulf of Guinea, people will deliberately remove the tip of their cats’ tails, or sometimes their ears. Why? Because it makes them “impure” for r...
Failed out of a maths degree and now shitposts about linguistics on the internet here. Those groups are all incredibly closely related to the point of speaking mutually intelligibl...
I can answer this one: it’s because hygiene rituals in many parts of the 3rd world are top-down impositions of caste systems which were introduced by higher elements to ensure some...
One of the most visible and mocked items of public sector jargon in Britain is the idea of the “stakeholder”. It is a word that is so widely used and abused that it takes on a wall...
The Pirahã are the apex Millers Around, but they share many or all of these characteristics with many other “primitive” groups: a shocking disregard for anything other than day to...
This isn’t true btw, some women rely on romance novels because the implausible scenarios presented therein (“I was abducted by a billionaire werewolf with a dark past”) are the onl...
This Good Friday you should be thinking about what really matters. The Aryan superstrate in Mitanni Hurrian. https://t.co/O2J0FgXbIf
You've heard of the 80/20 rule, of course, but allow me to propose a more developed pointless heuristic: the 1/5/15/80 rule. Not very catchy, but potentially information rich.
Last year I did a thread on Edward Banfield’s “Moral Basis of a Backward Society”, the seminal ethnography of a low-trust community. Today I revisit Banfield to look at an aspect...
Thinking about laryngeals (as you do) and how they might have been articulated. None of the options seem particularly good. Let's have a look at them.
Powell did invite around 18000 commonwealth doctors to work in the NHS, but the “shortage” was the result of government incompetence: number of doctors trained was entirely central...