This essay endeavors to explain the really important powers, ways of knowing, and characteristics of life that AI can never have. The author takes off his academic hat here and speaks from direct experience.

Introduction to the poetry of Mohammad Zaman.

Before coffee * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA

Save a chicken! * PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA

In the course, I give a basic introduction into some of the recent developments in the field of computational historical linguistics. While this field is predominantly represented by phylogenetic approaches with whom scholars try to infer phylogenetic trees from different kinds of language data, the approach taken here is much broader,…[Read more]

The weblog Computer-Assisted Language Comparison in Practice, published on the Hypotheses platform for scientific blogging (https://calc.hypotheses.org/), offers tutorials and discussion notes on computer-assisted approaches to the history and diversity of languages. A substantial part of its content is contributed as part of the ERC Starting…[Read more]

MAD HARRY! * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-ND

इस पुस्तिका में बिहार की कोसी नदी में वर्ष 2008 में आई प्रलयंकारी बाढ़ का आंखों देखा वर्णन है। बाढ़ में हजारों लोग मारे गए थे, लेकिन बिहार में सत्ता पर काबिज पार्टी ने इस त्रासदी काे एक जाति विशेष को सबक सिखाने के अवसर के रूप में लिया था। इसका तथ्यात्मक ब्यौरा इसमें है। साथ ही इसमें बेघर हुए लोगों की मर्मांतक पीड़ा का भी चित्रण है।…[Read more]

This website provides contextual information and interpretations of the novel Texaco by Martinican writer Patrick Chamoiseau. It was started in spring 2022 as a collaborative project by students in the Honors Program at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville in conjunction with the course Honors 200-008: Caribbean Crucible of Globalization…[Read more]

Alaska is OURS! * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA

Any memorials, monuments, historic sites, and other public facilities commemorate, celebrate and generally remind us about the landscape of the Cowpastures. In recent decades there has been a nostalgia turn in recovering the memory of the Cowpastures landscape. This is cast in terms of the pioneers and the legacy of the European settlement.
Some…[Read more]

One of the first directors of the Sydney Railway Company was colonial identity Thomas Barker who established Maryland at Bringelly in the 1850s. He developed the farm Maryland as a Sydney gentleman’s retreat and starting building his hilltop homestead in 1854. Barker was a successful Sydney businessman and philanthropist who was one of the…[Read more]

The establishment of Camden in 1840 was a private venture of James and William Macarthur, sons of colonial patriarch John Macarthur, at the Nepean River crossing on the northern edge of the family’s pastoral property of Camden Park. The town’s site was enclosed on three sides by a sweeping bend in the Nepean River and has regularly flooded the…[Read more]

The establishment of Camden in 1840 was a private venture of James and William Macarthur, sons of colonial patriarch John Macarthur, at the Nepean River crossing on the northern edge of the family’s pastoral property of Camden Park. The town’s site was enclosed on three sides by a sweeping bend in the Nepean River and has regularly flooded the…[Read more]

LO[CENSORED]E * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC-SA