The Ling Space Interviews The McGill Linguists Who Consulted For Arrival, Jessica Coon, Morgan Sonderegger,

New Zealand vs Australia at the Thor Ragnarok Panel

Awesome!

A bacterium on a diatom on an amphipod.

Empirical learners

by Nathan

Oh, shit .. another.

Beat and handcuffed for waiting on his own porch. smh. (x)

This excellent visual representation of that old scam, “trickle down economics”, has been all over Twitter recently.

The service is broken for no apparent reason 10 minutes before the presentation

by mkzero

"Unfortunately, your review of my book doesn’t offer many reasons for optimism. It is a strange document—avuncular in places, but more generally sneering. I think it fair to say that one could watch an entire season of Downton Abbey on Ritalin and not detect a finer note of condescension than you manage for twenty pages running."

—Sam Harris, “The Marionette’s Lament: A Response to Dan Dennett”

Remembering the officers lost in the Dallas shooting

Five officers were killed by at least one sniper near a peaceful protest in Dallas on Thursday night. They served the Dallas Police Department and the Dallas Area Rapid Transit agency. Here are their names and stories.

So according to an interview with Neil Gaiman in the back of Good Omens, before Terry Pratchett became a full time writer he wrote at least 400 words a day.

I’ve been trying it out for a couple weeks now and let me tell you 400 words is a totally awesome goal. It is very approachable and not intimidating, often leads to more than 400 words cause well now I have to finish this scene. 

Seriously I probably would have written nothing in the last couple weeks, instead I’ve written 1000′s of words. 

10/10 would recommend.