A simple calculation was described in the caption to the photo you see here, when that photo appeared in the report “The U.S. empire was built on bird dung” by Sunjata Gupta, in the January 2025 issue of Science News. The caption says: “From roughly 1845 to 1880, prospectors in Peru (shown here loading up […]
If you’re not watching the Super Bowl, and you happen to be in New York City, come to the 92nd Street Y, on Lexington Avenue at 92nd St., New York. The event starts at 8 pm, Sunday, February 5. Some TICKETS are still available. You will see “Bang! Bang! The Big Bang Theory meets The Big Bang Theory”, a […]
The very much one-and-only Dr. Nakamats, who among his many other accomplishments (2) is an Ig Nobel Prize winner and (1) has outmaneuvered doctors’ predictions that he would die in 2015, will enliven his 88th birthday party by traveling to it. If you will be in New York City on Friday evening, September 23 (the […]
Is it possible to gauge how wealthy a New Yorker might be just by the way they pronounce their /r/ s? A new paper in the Journal of English Linguistics investigates whether variations of rhoticity [viz. the prevalence, or lack of, the /r/ sound in speech] in wedding-consultants’ speech could be correlated with the amount […]
