https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-grisly-origins-madame-tussauds-wax-empire/amp
Month: March 2018
UNSCHOOLING: Why More Black Families are Joining This Radical Education Movement – Mutha Magazine
A Messiah-cum-Surrogate-Dad for Gormless Dimwits: On Jordan B. Peterson’s “12 Rules for Life” – Los Angeles Review of Books
The satisfying critique I wanted :)
Baby Registry Checklist | Alpha Mom
How do you say “smartphone” in Lakota? | The Outline
https://theoutline.com/post/3615/lakota-modern-language-peter-hill?zd=2&zi=d35y4hfl
Developing neologisms is how languages survive, according to research by Ryan Denzer-King at the University of Montana. “If people are going to continue to use a language, they must be able to say what they want to say,” Denzer-King wrote in a 2008 paper. “A language with no word for ‘cell phone’ or ‘computer’ is less likely to be used by younger generations than one which innovates.” These new terms can reference tribal myths in wry ways. Among the Umatilla of Washington, there is a story of a black cloud that hovers over the coyote, foiling the coyote’s schemes by given away his location. Smartphone in Umatilla is thus “the black cloud that is always following.”