August 30, 2015

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A nod and sad goodbye to horror film director Wes Craven and scientist Oliver Sacks. We knew they were both failing, but it is hard to see them go. Both of them broke new ground in their fields, fearlessly and with grace, unafraid to include some very human touches in their work.

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Turkish has a whistled version, used often in the mountains of northern Turkey. It’s eerie and lovely, and seems to do interesting things to the brains of people who listen to & understand it. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/whistled-language-uses-both-sides-brain?tgt=nr Why am I excited to blog about it? I have another data point for ‘singspeech’, my made-up Sonnaroi constructed language.…

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Publishing is such a weird business. I have fairly strong internet analytical evidence that a review I wrote over a year ago has been responsible for at least a couple hundred sales…of someone else’s book. I’m happy for them. It’s a good book. At the same time, I wish my self-promo could go so well…