"Its name - the Keeling Curve - may be scarcely known outside scientific circles, but the jagged upward slope showing rising carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in the...
Dear List, Dorian Fuller has pointed out off-List a far-reaching article I overlooked in this past week in PNAS, involving the most sophisticated yet tool use...
Dear List, The following review of recent studies of the relationship between written and oral traditions in biblical research has just appeared. It should be...
Dear all, (sorry, it's a long post!) today the following press release was published on the website of the University of Heidelberg: ===================== (...
Interesting story passed on by Irene Good, from the Peabody Museum, Harvard. "Young chimps perform better than adult humans on certain memory tasks, say...
What Chris says below may help to explain why Chinese only really has one word for both bronze and brass, TONG2. As one might expect, in the Bronze...
Victor H. Mair
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Dec 5, 2007 12:02 am
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Dear Steve, Great review/article by Werner Kelber. Sorry, not to reply earlier, but there is much end of term chaos. The article reads a lot like a survey of...
A revealing (and disturbing) paper in this week's PNAS. Does anyone have insight into the deep roots of flags and other national symbols? Are they linked with...
Indeed: anyone notice how often people in this country show the flag on a daily basis, some have it permanently flapping from house or porch --my guess is that...
Dear Benjy, Re your post last night: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/message/8680 ... And of course not just epic, since the main focus of...
Benjy & Annette Reed, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/message/8250 ... I asked about the script or contents of the Penn museum mss., ...
more from sinology: set to UTF-8 if reading in a browser. within sinology thinking about such issues came from studies of technical, more precisely form...
Thanks for the note Ganesan. I will leave aside specific comments about the script assessment for others [Annette?]; however, what do the respondents mean by...
Victor doesn't want to toot his own horn, as he puts it, so let's toot it for him. :^) Here is a link to Victor's newest production, in which he serves as...
Is there any compilation, in a western language, of Buddhist temples in China in the Yuan & Ming dynasties? Even a gazetteer for Nanjing & Beijing would be...
I's still pretty rare for flags to be found on houses here in Australia, and we don't go in for much flag-waving - our multiculturalism policy and ethnic...
Dear all, Having worked closely with modern, but completely traditionally trained, metal casters in Nepal and elsewhere, I have a few observations that may be...
This discussion reminds me of an experience that a colleague of mine had recently who moved from Canada to the state of Virginia. He became the only household...
Dear listers, The Institute for International Studies at University of Technology, Sydney, has a particular interest in aspects and symbols of nationalism,...
The whole issue of the national flag in India is quite fascinating, and spiritual leaders, cricketers, and others have all been criticised for 'unpatriotic'...
Benjy cites Alf Hiltebeitel's proposal that the Mahabharata and its epic genre could be a relatively late (post-Alexander) creation in India, and goes on to...
Dear List, I would like to call your attention to a brand new book by Marc S. Abramson dealing with ethnic identity in Tang period China. ...
Victor H. Mair
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Dec 6, 2007 4:29 pm
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Dear Steve, thanks a lot for the link to Kuzmina's and Victor's publication and for the link to Pennpress --- it sounds fascinating and I ordered my copy ...
... After reading Joanna K.'s mail on the flag decades ago, I was thinking of this Americanism allowed by Indian Supreme Court. In Texas, the trucks, SUVs,...
Dear List, For various reasons today I reviewed again Daniel Everett's work on the Piraha. We've discussed this topic several times since Everett's 2005...
Addendum. Quotable quotes from Everett's now classic 2005 paper -- with inconsistencies that would cognitively challenge the exegetical powers of any medieval...
I gave the wrong URL to get to the classic paper by Tucker et al. Here is the correct URL. The paper is key to those interested in primitive neurobiological...
... For an equally heavy-handed and scathing review from _that_ camp see Nevins, Pesetsky & Rodrigues, available here: http://ling.auf.net/lingBuzz/000411 (And...
Recent Bryn Mawr Classical Review article of interest on the social history of Greek medicine: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2007/2007-12-03.html Not much...
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