Subruncinator - (Via Daily Idioms, Annotated.)

Neanderthals Could Talk Like Humans, Bone Reveals

Massive Lake Found Under Greenland Ice - It wasn’t me, I swear.

Study: Fall of the Soviet Union may have saved the Arctic

Billion-dollar climate denial network exposed - A network of 91 think tanks and industry groups are primarily responsible. One ( Read more... )

In which our collaborate novel Our Lady of the Islands, written by me and Shannon Page, finds a home

Jade par Jay Lake - A French review of the French translation of my book Green. Some complaints, but I interpret the Google Translate version as generally positive.

Textopornographie: France creates its own word for 'sexting' - Of course they did ( Read more... )

Heroines in an ancient film called the flame of the west - How it all looks lately from the point of view of Lisa Costello.

How I Thank God - ( Read more... )

Writing and Mortality - Rachel Swirsky on a topic a bit close to home for me, also the myth of compulsion.

The true cost of publishing on the Amazon Kindle - Interesting information regarding periodicals on Kindle. (Via ( Read more... )

If all stories were written like science fiction stories - Hahaha. Very bad science fiction stories, admittedly. (Via David Goldman.)

First Measurement of 'Wordquakes' Shaking the Blogosphere - Certain words disrupt the blogosphere in the same way that earthquakes shake the planet. And that makes them ripe for an earthquake-like magnitude rating.
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In my idiolect, "angina" and "vagina" have always rhymed. However, the cardiology team that's been working on my mother (who presumably know of what they speak) pronounced "angina" with a short, unstressed /i/ in the middle, so instead of "an-j-eye-nah" they say "an-j-in-uh".

(In case you were wondering about yesterday's QOTD.)

Important safety tip:

"chitin" and "chiton" do not mean the same thing.

Carry on.

Cultural referents strike again! Based on an IM session today:

Poll Gaslighting

I'm dragging my brain here a bit. Without being grossly rude about this, what were people with mental handicaps called in the Middle Ages, or even the Renaissance and Enlightenment period? So far as I know, most of the modern terms we have, whether descriptive or derogatory, arise from various waves of theory within psychiatry.

Star Wars toys that never made it

Sentence parsing for the grammatically nefarious - A linguist gets funny with a quote. Also a very brief discussion of the anomalously anarthrous nature of the noun in the phrase "Abandon ship."

Spines, Made Extra Curvy for Women - You have to love a story that starts out with the phrase, "Pregnant women do not ( Read more... )