February 21, 2011
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As long as we’re talking about Greek (see next post) we might as well mention an item from Washington University in St Louis which mentions the recent identification of a number of books which once belonged to Thomas Jefferson. Some excerpts: The Thomas Jefferson Foundation and Washington University in St. Louis announced the discovery by…
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Erstwhile Classics prof Ken Mayer sent along an interesting item last week … it’s a photo of a can of Kuang Chuan Mountain Coffee (the company is from Taiwan) and the inverted image shows that there’s some sort of Greek manuscript lurking on the label: What’s somewhat infuriating about this is that the company doesn’t…
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Every now and then, it turns out the journalists get it right. An excerpt from an item in the Telegraph last week: Solar winds are plumes of electrically charged particles spewed out by the Sun that occasionally hit Earth. The planet’s protective magnetic field pushes these particles to the poles, where they react with oxygen…
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A Toyota press release, via the fine folks at Engadget: Toyota Motor Sales (TMS), USA, Inc. today announced that the general public has selected ‘Prii’ as the preferred plural term for Prius. The Prius Goes Plural voting campaign was launched on January 10 at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit and challenged the…
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One of the reasons I like having days off — it’s ‘Family Day’ here in Ontario (which curiously matches up with President’s Day in the U.S.) — is that it allows me time to give items the time they deserve and also to catch up on things which I’ve been putting off posting for various…
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