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• Commented on George Lakoff: neuroscience of politics
  Can't somebody make George Lakoff go away? He is a rude, lazy, fame-seeking pseudoscientist whose books try to recycle a few lame ideas into some sort of authority on political thought. His linguistic work has fallen off (though that's no...
• Commented on Cody's Books of Berkeley, RIP
  No doubt that Berkeley's odd economy and business policies contributed to this. But I have to say that the Telegraph Ave. Cody's staff was so rude to me on multiple occasions a couple of years ago that I intentionally started...
• Commented on Plushie brain cell
  These are maybe too cute for feline consumption, but I think my cat would go crazy for the petrie dish 3-pack of mini-neurons....
• Commented on Dvorak funnies explain why your QWERTY habit needs to go
  I know that August Dvorak, the namesake of this keyboard layout, was American by at least a generation or two. But it seems ironic to me that there is no Czech version of the Dvorak keyboard (Dvorak, with a hacek...
• Commented on Endangered languages and gadgets that record them
  Back to the gadgets. I have an Olympus WS100 in addition to my Marantz. It is a cheaper handheld than the D2, and I am sure that its internal mic is not as good as the Olympus D2. I have...
• Commented on Endangered languages and gadgets that record them
  Well put, Verafides....
• Commented on Endangered languages and gadgets that record them
  I, too, am a linguist who does fieldwork on an endangered language - an indigenous language of California with fewer native speakers left than the fingers on one hand. I was happy to see that an article on language documentation...