- Philip Zimbardo, author of The Lucifer Effect, on the heroic imagination. And here's some more on the man and his views on the 'banality of evil'. Tabula Rasa touches on a similar theme in a different setting: Cambodia.
- Welcome to the 21st century, Mr. Bartlett!
- Adults (operationally defined as undergrad students) are no good at detecting lies told by cute little kids.
- Data analysis by economists: Part I and Part II (via).
- Did you too think that the Eskimos had tons of words to describe different kinds of snow? Well, think again.
Thursday, April 19, 2007
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Language Log has many posts on the myth about Eskimo words for snow. You can see them here
The Eskimo story is pretty strange, though I will take a detailed look later. I would think that this is a commonly accepted fact; that your vocabulary is strongly dictated by your environment. We have so many words for shades of colour, so why don't eskimos have many words for forms of snow?
thank you (and your friend!) for the links and the kind comment over at desipundit :-)
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