Laura Spinney
@lfspinney
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Novelist, science journalist and author of PROTO: HOW ONE ANCIENT LANGUAGE WENT GLOBAL - out now!
Ile-de-France, France
Joined July 2012
Love this. How to say 92 in different European languages. Note the outliers France and especially Denmark. With thanks to and reddit. #linguistics
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Uralic languages illuminated #ancientdna.
news.harvard.edu
Parent emerged over 4,000 years ago in Siberia, farther east than many thought, then rapidly spread west, study finds.
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RT @LauraNMeyer: Delighted to see PROTO by @lfspinney and SHATTERED LANDS by @SamDalrymple123 included here!.Prospect critics recommend boo….
prospectmagazine.co.uk
We asked staff members, contributors and critics to recommend books for taking on holiday this summer. Here are our critics’ choices
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RT @riccginevra: @lfspinney Thanks @lfspinney! Interesting experiment – maybe @iosif_lazaridis is interested in our comparative reconstruc….
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Can I just say, that @DannyBate4 knows his stuff.
New ALILI alert! 🚨. Episode 37 is a trip into prehistory, as @lfspinney, author of the super new book Proto, joins me to share her expertise and enthusiasm for the 'lost' language of Proto-Indo-European! Listen here:. Acast:Spotify:
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Go to the museum at Çorum - more than 180 kinds of bread or bakery product!.
Some texts mention breads made with hazelnuts, fruits, or fine white flour,” she explains. “We’ve been able to recreate similar flavors today, bringing the ancient Hittite kitchen back to life. - Dr. Valentina Orsi from Koç University’s Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations.
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.@riccginevra ?.
Yamnaya man, 3200BC speaking Proto-Indo-European. Do any linguists make sense of what he is supposed to be saying? Created with a mix of Indic and Lithuanian text to approximate PIE phonology.
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.@riccginevra @andrewmbyrd ??.
Yamnaya man, 3200BC speaking Proto-Indo-European. Do any linguists make sense of what he is supposed to be saying? Created with a mix of Indic and Lithuanian text to approximate PIE phonology.
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RT @JohnHMcWhorter: Last night on Colbert. All about PRONOUN TROUBLE (or mostly). via @YouTube.
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Coppola tried this to unearth new script-writing talent - see Zoetrope - all he got was regression to the mean. Should grant applicants judge competitors’ proposals? Unorthodox approach gets two real-world tests | Science | AAAS
science.org
Distributed peer review enlists more researchers in the process, but some may lack expertise
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Great conversation yesterday with the very well-read @MitchJeserich of @kpfaradio and California for his show Letters & Politics
kpfa.org
Guest: Laura Spinney is a science journalist and the author of Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World and most recently, Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global.
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RT @PIELexicon: The team, led by Professor Rüstem Aslan of Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, has resumed full-scale excavations (. ). The….
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RT @LauraNMeyer: Proto; The Indo-Europeans Rediscovered | Book review | The TLS
the-tls.com
In 2016, a woman on a bus wearing a niqab was told to speak in English by another passenger. He was in turn reprimanded: “We’re in Wales. She’s speaking
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RT @DannyBate4: New ALILI alert! 🚨. Episode 37 is a trip into prehistory, as @lfspinney, author of the super new book Proto, joins me to sh….
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RT @governancenow: The saga of a #LANGUAGE family that has shaped the world. @lfspinney's ‘Proto’ is an exciting, accessible story of the b….
governancenow.com
Laura Spinney’s ‘Proto’ is an exciting, accessible story of the birth and spread of Indo-European languages
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Microorganisms, materials and movement inspire high-fashion dress designs.
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Should babies vote?.
theguardian.com
Strange as it may seem, it’s hard to refute the arguments for truly universal suffrage
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