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10/12/2001 Archived Entry: "Filling"

I've just written an editorial at New Mars - check it out here.

Some interesting links that I saved for a slow news day (I haven't had the time to fully read any of these...):

Politics and the English Language: an essay written by George Orwell in 1946 that will be of interest to those who enjoyed reading 1984 and in particular the science of Newspeak.

An interview with evolutionary psychologist Geoffrey Miller about sexual selection and the mind - such interviews never fail to be interesting.

An article about the 'great Eskimo vocabulary hoax' (cached from Google). Did you know that the Eskimos have over two hundred words for snow? I didn't - because they don't. Here's another essay about the same subject.