On Tue, Sep 30, 2014, at 07:57 AM, Charles Haynes wrote:
I wonder how many of the books will be in Chinese. They say they aren't
limiting nominations to english, but selection bias and subsequent
voting
bias will be huge.
-- Charles
Very true indeed! BTW if you are interested in Chinese
Selection bias cuts a number of ways. While there are a lot of
thoughtful selection in the lists I skimmed, there was a notable bias
towards traditionally male skills. I saw one book on sewing and none on
spinning, weaving, knitting, dyeing, or felting. I saw nothing on
education, childcare,
Hm I thought heinlein had it figured out
human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a
hog, con a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build
a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate,
act alone, solve
Long Now Foundation has a very interesting project - Manual for
Civilization Lists, roughly 3500 books most essential to sustain or
rebuild civilization.
http://blog.longnow.org/02014/02/06/manual-for-civilization-begins/
The recent blog post on the subject has list from David Brin, Bruce
I wonder how many of the books will be in Chinese. They say they aren't
limiting nominations to english, but selection bias and subsequent voting
bias will be huge.
-- Charles
On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 2:55 PM, skn s...@skn.fastmail.fm wrote:
Long Now Foundation has a very interesting project -
On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 07:44:38AM +0530, Hassath wrote:
Or does someone know it differently?
Zucker. Сахар. Saccharose.
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Yes, :-) And nice to note the 'Telegu' as opposed to Telugu. :-))
Actually it was something like: stones the colour of frankincense,
sweeter than figs or honey [1] - referring to Khand; this was in
326BC. Arthatshasthra of the same time also refers to the whole gamut
of products of sugarcane.
in Telegu, it is Panchadara and chakkira. my understanding is that there is
a greek account in Alexander's time that refers to the sugarcane
as producing honey without bees.
On Feb 8, 2008 8:35 AM, Ramjee Swaminathan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
:-) the rambler strikes again. Probable reason: too
:-) the rambler strikes again. Probable reason: too much sugar.
On 2/7/08, Abhijit Menon-Sen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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(but again, not in all languages - in Malayalam and Tamil, they are
respectively called charkarai and chakkara, AFAIK - there are also
cheenchakkari, chenjeeni etc in
On Feb 8, 2008 10:53 PM, Ramjee Swaminathan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, :-) And nice to note the 'Telegu' as opposed to Telugu. :-))
Actually it was something like: stones the colour of frankincense,
sweeter than figs or honey [1] - referring to Khand; this was in
326BC. Arthatshasthra of
On Feb 8, 2008 11:26 PM, Deepa Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I also thought of gulkhand which seems to be a popular sweet in
many parts of India. Was this of Mughal, or Indian origin? I never
liked it, and could not understand my grandmother's need to dunk rose
petals in sugar syrup!...
On Feb 8, 2008 9:41 PM, Ramjee Swaminathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
misri or chini - white crystalline sugar
It would be of interest to note that, of all the above products, misri
or white crystalline sugar is a very late entrant to the scene of
Indian cuisine in a major way and has quickly
At 2008-02-08 08:11:07 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
misri or chini - white crystalline sugar
If chini is Chinese, is misri Egyptian?
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Abhijit Menon-Sen wrote:
| BTW, in Malayalam, cc sugar is usually called pan[cha]sara. I've only
| heard the charkarai form used for gur or perhaps palm sugar. Is there
| a similar distinction in Tamil?
Speaking of which,
BTW, in Malayalam, cc sugar is usually called pan[cha]sara. I've only
| heard the charkarai form used for gur or perhaps palm sugar. Is there
| a similar distinction in Tamil?
No...gur is called vellam...and palm sugar is panam kalkandu.
(kalkandu is sugar candy ...the kind that comes in
On Feb 8, 2008 9:05 AM, Deepa Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No...gur is called vellam...and palm sugar is panam kalkandu.
There is also this liquid palm sugar syrup, in Kerala, that is called paani.
At 2008-02-08 08:32:33 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Molasses_Disaster
I am a terrible human being, because I find that description very funny.
«The collapse unleashed an immense wave of molasses between 8 and 15
ft (2.5 to 4.5 m) high, moving at 35
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