Jae B. Rodriguez
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Books | Languages | Science | Choral music. Tenor @TonartLeipzig, PhD student in Molecular Anthropology @MPI_EVA_Leipzig
Leipzig, Germany
Joined October 2015
It's concert season again with @TonartLeipzig! On November 9th we're celebrating the choral works of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy.
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Have you ever wanted to become just as well-educated as a monk or nun in 8th century Northumbria? Using some evidence from the works of Alcuin of York, I put together a comprehensive reading list for what you would have learned. Check it out: https://t.co/WSRV4MRsDs
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Currently reading Norman Macdougall’s James IV: a highly informative, albeit dense read on Scotland’s Renaissance king. His marriage to Margaret Tudor ultimately led to the union of Crowns with England in his great grandson, James VI. I have mixed feelings for the author’s
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Can't believe this is already a 10-year old tweet (almost)
Read the book 2x. First was way back 2010. Now for my evolution class. @RichardDawkins' eloquence still inspires me!
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"We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields." Turing, Alan M. (1950). I.—Computing machinery and intelligence. Mind, LIX(236), 433–460.
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We all need a friend like Razumikhin!
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A symptom of a society's downfall is its perversion of its definition of beauty.
Art must be didactic (toward the good) in order to be beautiful.
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For Spanish learners and those looking into studying a foreign language, watch out for this language app currently being developed by @BlakeLinguist!
Hi, I'm Blake and this is my first tweet. I'm excited to share my journey of building Caruso, a language app I wish had existed. I love languages and building things, and I'm doing this in public. Read on to hear my story: ↓
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On why there might be male homosexuals: Richard Dawkins in The Extended Phenotype (1982) was skeptical of John Maynard Smith's "sneaky f*cker" hypothesis, finding it no more plausible than "just-so stories" invented by kin selectionists (a term Maynard Smith also coined).
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Sagan was a treasure. I fondly remember reading Cosmos in the summer of 2014.
"For 99 percent of the tenure of humans on earth, nobody could read or write. The great invention had not yet been made. Except for firsthand experience, almost everything we knew was passed on by word of mouth. As in the children's game "Telephone," over tens and hundreds of
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I like quiet people. People who are simple, read books, can watch a 2 hour documentary about bees, are crazy smart, but still stay low-key and private.
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David Reich’s book was a 2020 pandemic lockdown read. Felt like eons ago.
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Sanga-Sanga channel and airport viewed from Mt. Bongao. This is in Tawi-Tawi, the southernmost province of the Philippines. Took this shot last January.
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I finished exactly 100 books this year - and here are the 22 very best ones! Many of them I read on my phone, so pictured here is my stack heading into 2025... Ever since I started counting way back in 2014, I've read 1,352 books(!), and my goal is to reach 10,000 books
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True!
@davey_juice Finding the best teacher italki is extremely helpful in advancing your language progress.
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Yet to finish reading.. Frederick Bodmer in The Loom of Language describing the tonal system of Mandarin (Pekingese) using staff notation. This thick volume was first published in 1944, quite dated but so far an engaging overview of linguistic evolution.
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A great reading list to understand the foundations and fate of the Western civilization
I kinda feel sorry for people who don’t read about Roman History. They’re missing out on all the fun.
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