June 2010
100 posts
“Titus Andronicus may be Shakespeare’s earliest tragedy; it is believed to...”
– Titus Andronicus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
May 2010
143 posts
“In the late 1950s, psychologist Milton Rokeach was gripped by an eccentric plan....”
– The Three Christs of Ypsilanti: What happens when three men who identify as Jesus are forced to live together? - By Vaughan Bell - Slate Magazine
“The Second Red Scare profoundly altered the temper of US society. Its later...”
– Red Scare - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Posse comitatus or sheriff’s posse is the common-law authority of a county...”
– Posse comitatus (common law) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“In some cultures, the five naked-eye planets are grouped with the Sun and the...”
– Classical planet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“In the Mongolian People’s Republic, the Mongolian People’s...”
– Wolf hunting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“If a woman’s breasts hurt, it’s good to apply the skin of a freshly slaughtered...”
– From a website on Kyrgyz traditional knowledge that I’ve been asked to edit, put together by a research center I’ll be working with during my Fulbright Fellowship.
Also: curative bee stings, dried frog powder, and fried hedgehog. Yeah.
“In some societies people can be sensitive to gradations of skin tone, which may...”
– Color terminology for race - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Census records in 1800s North America recorded Chinese men by names such as...”
– Chinaman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“A forerunner of the modern ideas of cyberspace is the Cartesian notion that...”
– Cyberspace - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Much of Marzah’s time on the stand was spent establishing that Taylor was...”
– How did Naomi Campbell and Pat Robertson come up in former Liberian President Charles Taylor’s trial? - By Doug Merlino - Slate Magazine
“The technique of massage abortion, involving the application of pressure to the...”
– Massage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“While he was imprisoned in the castle of Fardajan near Hamadhan, Avicenna wrote...”
– Islamic metaphysics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Lamed Wufniks
“On the earth there are, and have always been, thirty-six just men whose mission is to justify the world to God. These are the Lamed Wufniks. These men do not know each other, and they are very poor. If a man comes to realize that he is a Lamed Wufnik, he immediately dies and another man, perhaps in some other corner of the earth, takes his place. These men are, without suspecting it, the...
“Philosophers of science, often operating under the aegis of Thomas Kuhn,...”
– - Boing Boing
“The pirates attacked the merchant ship early on the morning of May 5. The crew...”
– Western nations need to figure out how to deal with Somali pirates. - By Anne Applebaum - Slate Magazine
“Chrislam (pronounced /ˈkrɪslɑːm/), or the The Will of God Mission or Ifeoluwa...”
– Chrislam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“The word “allergy,” Dr. Glassner said, has come to connote any unpleasant...”
– I Can’t Eat That. I’m Allergic. - NYTimes.com
“[On the set of Fitzcarraldo], a lumberman was bitten by a snake while cutting a...”
– Werner Herzog, speaking at the British Film… | Old Hollywood
“Xenoglossy (pronounced /ˈziːnɵɡlɒsi/ or /ˈzɛnɵɡlɒsi/), also written xenoglossia...”
– Xenoglossy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“James Arthur Flowerdew (1 December 1906 – October 2002) was a retired English...”
– Arthur Flowerdew - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 