What Do I Know?

[I found this draft post from July 2012.  It appears never to have been posted.  But it's interesting to see how what I wrote 12 years a...

In evidential languages, as I understand it, there are verb tenses, which indicate whether the speaker personally witnessed the events they ...

[You'll figure out pretty quickly, I think, that I enjoyed reading this book.  I wanted to read the next chapter as soon as I finished t...

INTRO:   Part I is here.   If you find this topic dry and hard to get your head around, then you are half way there.  Because some of the ...

The previous post, Farrago , meandered into the power struggles in the US and the assault on science in favor of fantastic explanations of t...

[This was written Sept. 22, but I wrote it under Pages instead of Posts.  Pages are the tabs up above (and below the banner.  So I'm add...

Suppose you're still buying the same brand of cereal your mom bought for you.   But after years of loyalty, you've noticed that it n...

A link to Capacious led me into a rabbit hole that didn't let go for several hours.  As an academic, I found the first story too real a...

This is an important interview by Brian Taylor Cohen, one of the brightest and most articulate commentators (I want to say on the air, and h...

Bear with me for a bit. (Or don't and just scroll down to JUMP TO HERE below.) I've been learning Turkish on Duolingo for a while.  ...