New Year’s Eve Salon
A festive open thread where, at your holiday leisure, you can discuss almost anything* you like.
I won’t add my condemn to your condemn LV – Sappy New Year
All we want for New Year is a mildly peevish distraction for this last gasp of the enforced jollity period, yes? Feel free to condemn the living daylights out of whatever.
Deep origins: language
Warning: longer essay-style post. David B Anthony in his extraordinary book The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How the Bronze-age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World tells us that language normally changes so that speakers 1000 years […]
Copping out at COP 19 in Warsaw
Back in 2002 an Earth Summit (World Summit on Sustainable Development) nick-named “Rio + 10″ was held in Johannesburg. As I recall there was a big push on to transfer the main carriage for environmental matters from the UN to […]
Overflow Thread
So it’s time for another Overflow thread, as part of our system for keeping other threads on-topic. There are Rules here – please follow the guidelines for managing drift into and out of this thread.
Whimsy
Please share any bits and pieces that have surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you.
You’ve been warned!
I did have a restful Christmas, albeit wrapped in the warmth of Brisbane’s humidity, but in the still of the night reality has a way of breaking through. I’ll begin with the ending of this story, as it were, by […]
Lazy Monday
Since we don’t live by politics alone (I sincerely hope), what else did people get up to this weekend?
Climate clippings 90
These posts are intended to share information and ideas about climate change and hence act as a roundtable for readers to contribute items of interest. Again, I do not want to spend time in comments rehashing whether human activity causes […]
