On My UK Adventure
Rebecca’s trip to the UK.
Form an orderly queue, chaps: A quick guide to British English
The UK Early Bird gives a lighthearted guide to British English.
The Unknown Gulag
Part V: Another Source: The Survivors’ Testimony
Lynne Viola’s final post about her research for her book.
Friday procrastination: link love – Medieval Times, Tudors, and the Twentieth Century
Friday link love.
Cheeseburger in Paradise: A Quiz
A Hamburger quiz for you meat-lovers.
The Unknown Gulag
Part IV: Why did the Soviets Document their Crimes?
Everyday this week we are posting part of a series from author Lynne Viola, The Unknown Gulag: The Lost World of Stalin’s Special Settlements. Check out part one and part two and part three. Luck and serendipity combined to provide unique and rich sources for the book. I was continually amazed at the degree of […]
Holy Hangover, Batman!
Someone pass me four advils and a bucket of your finest coffee. If life appears sluggish around here, it’s because last night Oxford threw a launch party to celebrate the publication of The Oxford Companion to American Food and Drink. Even our ironic trucker hats can’t hide these hangovers. Contrary to popular belief, we publishing […]
The Unknown Gulag
Part III: The Provincial Archives
I read of the Regional Party Committee’s plans to feed the exiles’ families (including some 88,000 children) according to “starvation norms.”
If You Eat A Cake, You Are Sure To Have It Later
By Anatoly Liberman What a blow to national pride: cake is a loanword from Scandinavian, and cookie has been taken over from Dutch! The story of cake is full of dangerous corners, as will become immediately obvious. Anyone who begins to learn Swedish soon discovers that the Swedish for cake is kaka.
The Unknown Gulag
Part II: The Central Archives
Yesterday we presented part 1 in a 5 part series about The Unknown Gulag: The Lost World of Stalin’s Special Settlements by Lynn Viola. Today Viola takes us inside the archives in Moscow.
Tsukiji, Japan
Ben’s Place of The Week is Tsukiji, Japan.
The Unknown Gulag
Part I: Looking for the Kulaks
Stalin’s reign over the Soviet Union has left many unanswered questions but in The Unknown Gulag: The Lost World of Stalin’s Special Settlements Lynne Viola answers one: what happened to millions of peasants in the 1930’s.
Fat Politics: Biological Responses to the American Way of Life
What are the real reasons that Americans are getting fatter?
Friday procrastination: link love – Vonnegut, Collins, and mixed metaphors
Happy Friday everyone!
The Martians of Science: An Excerpt
Hargittai’s book tells the story of five brilliant men born at the turn of the twentieth century in Budapest: Theodore von Kármán, Leo Szilard, Eugene Wigner, John von Neumann, and Edward Teller.
This Day in History: The New York Stock Exchange is Formed.
On this day in history the NYSE was formed, we take a closer look.