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How Not To (and Just Possibly How To) Study Japanese
Coming at a language as an outsider isn’t always a disadvantage. What first feels like an insurmountable barrier can become a vantage point.
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Quarks, Gluons & Jabberwocks : On Aptonyms and Nonce Words
It’s a very human tendency to conflate representations with reality. We are, after all, symbol-processing machines.
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Hi, Lo, Fast & Slow : Deeptech and a Brief History of Prefixes
Whoever picks up the bill for it, deeptech is a class of technologies with high potential impact, that require our patience to reach the market.
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Getting To Understand (the) Spanish
I married into a very Spanish family and had to start from scratch in making sense of a new culture. So I did what I tend to do when faced with the unknown, I turned to literature.