Month: January 2009
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What did Chief Seattle say?
In pursuit of historical veracity I came across extracts from F.J. Grant’s report (pp. 433-6 of his History of Seattle, Washington) of the speech of Chief Sealth—as translated from someone...
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Satirical bingo.
http://elusis.livejournal.com/1869260.html : what an excellent boardgame.
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Bats in motion
This morning’s trawl of news items about bats turned up a wonderful article in Science News reporting on work by T Kunz on how bats use their wings to move....
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Buddhist exclusivism in Sri Lanka
Is this modernism, exclusivism or fundamentalism? I’ve got a chapter coming out (in Sharing the Sacra, ed. Glenn Bowman) in which I discuss local responses to a similar attitude among...