Vegetable oil in pot (corn oil, enough to coat the bottom of the pot ( Read more... )

Things your love is better than:
- Ice Cream
- Chocolate
- Everything else that I've tried

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I have beef with the recent LL post about DeMorgan's Law. Specifically, the author claims that English does not always operate consistently with DeMorgan's Law, and that many other languages also do not operate consistently with DeMorgan's Law. I argue that they are wrong, and they're wrong because of a simple inability to diagram a sentence ( Read more... )

I just settled down to watch last night's Heroes. There's a scene with Suresh.

SO MUCH IS WRONG WITH THIS SCENE.

Dr. Suresh: One, plate tectonics DO NOT MEAN that the earth is "evolving." Two, square pegs DO NOT GO in round holes. You are doing it wrong.

What?

Suck it, New Oxford American Dictionary.

Poll DISCONCEIVABLE

OH MY GOD THIS IS THE BEST THING I HAVE SEEN IN THIS CENTURY OR THE LAST

(if you like sestinas)

I just edited a wikipedia entry. I rarely (okay, never) do this, except that this particular page made a claim about the meaning that a word had in the English language in the year 1100 BC ( Read more... )

A is for A. That's an oddly Randian way to start this project. 16.4 billion hits.
B is for Physical Review B, an international journal specializing in condensed-matter phenomena, as well as materials physics. But perhaps more notably is that B is for child pornography: "In response to a legal request submitted to Google, we have removed 2 result ( Read more... )

I'm doing some research for a research paper on primate evolution and behavior and I came across a purely linguistic paper about how humans across different cultures use language as the basis of spatial skills ( Read more... )

I'm taking a course in philology called "Greek and Latin Roots of English." One of the exercises in the textbook that recurs in every chapter is that we are given some greek or latin roots and asked to come up with English derivatives. Sometimes this is almost unbearably easy - given the stem "fals-" which means "deceive" and producing "false" ( Read more... )