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Plus Ultra!
I know Brian said that we’d posted our last, but I couldn’t let the very kind words on the thread announcing our closure to go un-remarked. I also thought it somewhat incumbent on me as founder of the blog to […]
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Goodbye, again
As of today Larvatus Prodeo will once again cease publishing. Long-time readers will know that the blog started out on March 17, 2005 and then ceased publishing from April 10, 2012 after a seven year run. We were conjured into […]
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Climate clippings 91
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 […]
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 […]
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