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Etymology gleanings for December 2019

January 8^th 2020

Before you eat, drink, or breathe: “throat”

January 15^th 2020

Women on the front lines: Military service, combat and gender

January 10^th 2020

Hilary Putnam on mind and meanings – Philosopher of the Month

January 11^th 2020

Podularity post a podcast with Andrew Kahn about his book 'Pushkin's Lyrical Intelligence'

"Pushkin died romantically, famously in a duel in 1837. He’s often thought of as the founding father of modern Russian literature, which makes him sound rather dusty and old-fashioned, but in fact he’s a great innovator and experimenter"

Looking Forward: The Future of AI | Michael Kearns & Aaron Roth

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ODNBLife of the day

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Oxford ReferenceFact of the Day

In mathematics what is the term for the line that joins the centre of a regular polygon to the midpoint of one of its sides?