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Pseudo-science, censorship, and incompetence
Expelled!. Also see the follow-up.
Via Bad Astronomy.
As my mother used to nag us: Don’t do a half-way job!
A visitor to Assisi
Mikhail Gorbachev admits he is a Christian
Mikhail Gorbachev is a Christian say Franciscan friars
Via The Angels are in the Details, which asks some good questions and comments:
This going to be a major shock for the old “Gorby is the Antichrist” crowd. Or maybe not. After all, it seems that Gorbachev has embraced an ancient, liturgical form of the faith.
Books on the internet
John Baez has posted a list of recommended free math and physics books available on the web. This is very helpful: There are a lot of free texts out there, but taken as a whole they only demonstrate Sturgeon’s revelation. You need some educated guidance to find the good stuff in a finite time.
That’s one way of looking at it….
See today’s Onion
Monday Night Irish Class, March 17, 2008
Irish Class, March 17, 2008
Irish Class, March 17, 2008
The first event was an exercise in sentence structure. We were given several Irish sentences and were asked to pick out key grammatical elements
without actually translating them. We were looking for verbs, subjects,
objects, prepositional phrases, dependent clauses, and
genitives.
| admhaigh | admit |
| admhaím | I admit |
| rómhaith | very good |
| dream | group (of people) |
| measa | worse. Comp. of olc— bad, evil |
| casadh | twist, turn, reproach |
| riamh | ever, never |
| taobh | side, flank |
| dúchas | heritage, patrimony, native place |
| faoi láthair | at present |
| grinn | perceptive, accurate |
| arb | was (past of copula before a vowel |
| páirteach | participating, sharing, sympathetic |
| sraith | swath, course, layer, series, row, rate |
| ráchairt | run f2 |
| saighdiúir | soldier |
| cogadh domhanda | world war |
| troid | fight, quarrel f3 |
| arm | army. Also weapon, arm |
| sraidbhaile | village |
| bocht | poor person m1 |
| lár | middle, center. Also floor, ground |
Next came question and answer. Nick asked various general knowledge questions in Irish and we answered. This to see how well we could follow spoken Irish.
Alternate Historical Linguistics
Poul Anderson’s classic Uncleftish Beholding is on the web!
Nebula of the week!
Via John Baez.
For news junkies
Saint Patrick’s Day Note
St. Patrick is the Patron Saint of Engineers because Continue reading
