Five Links:
- A team of scientists has succeeded in putting an object large enough to be visible to the naked eye into a mixed quantum state of moving and not moving. (from March.)
- Secret History of Chicago Music: Sunnyland Slim — You Put That Thing On Me, Come Home Baby, Tin Pan Alley.
- To read the 1,802 pages of the Swedish crime novelist Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy is to be told that, for all their perceived virtue, the institutions of social democracy are a farce. In Larsson’s books, American readers will find the Sweden they expect: the welfare-state comforts, Volvo security, and Ikea practicality for which the country is known. But they will also find a country they didn’t expect. In this Sweden, the country’s well-polished façade belies a broken apparatus of government whose rusty flywheels are little more than the playthings of crooks. The doctors are crooked. The bureaucrats are crooked. The newspapermen are crooked. The industrialists and businessmen, laid bare by merciless transparency laws, are nevertheless crooked. The police and the prosecutors … (n+1)
- Montenegro wants a language! Montenegro wants a language!
- How do Americans get to work?
I love languages, both living and dead.
Here’s a new one (for me, at least) — no tenses, no plural forms, no numbers over five.
