snippets journal publishes notes that contribute to the study of syntax and semantics in generative grammar. The notes are brief, self-contained and explicit. For an example of the content, can we recommend a 2011 paper by Professor Daniel Siddiqi (Carlton University, US) who examines the ‘ass’ intensifier. “English has recently developed a new intensifier, ass, […]
Frozen chicken, wild fish, and fingernails
Frozen chicken, wild fish, and fingernails all come together in a single, scientific investigation: “Frozen chicken for wild fish: Nutritional transition in the Brazilian Amazon region determined by carbon and nitrogen stable isotope ratios in fingernails,” Gabriela B. Nardoto, et al., American Journal of Human Biology, Epub May 31, 2011. The authors explain: “Amazonian populations […]
A mile of pi, unrolled on an airport landing strip
If you print out the first million digits of the number pi, on a piece of paper a mile (slightly more than a mile, really) long, then unroll the paper, you will see something like what you see in this video made by Brady Haran for NumberPhile:
‘WIILTBA’ (bat! rat! rock!) questions – a partial listing
This month it’s (roughly) the 40th anniversary of the publication of Professor Emeritus Thomas Nagel‘s now-famous philosophical essay entitled : What Is It Like To Be a Bat? ( Philosophical Review, 83, no. 4 ) Since then, a considerable number of other academic writers, researchers and philosophers have paid tribute to professor Nagel’s bat paper […]