links for 2010-10-26
On 26 October 02010 with 1 comment
"Killer Whale" doesn't really seem to be a misnomer. These animals are crazy dangerous. I can't believe that they're still kept in captivity as performing animals.
"[I]f, for instance, you ask a Matses man how many wives he has, unless he can actually see his wives at that very moment, he would have to answer in the past tense and would say something like 'There were two last time I checked.' After all, given that the wives are not present, he cannot be absolutely certain that one of them hasn’t died or run off with another man since he last saw them, even if this was only five minutes ago." My fellow linguistics dorks will love this.
High school schedules are absurd. Classes start far too early, and the amount of homework is just unreasonable. This is bad for kids, bad for their educations, bad for their health, and bad for society. This article is from the increasingly excellent Miller-McCune, a new magazine that you should keep an eye on.
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