Language Log recently opened up comments on a post about the origins of a girl's name. One of the commenters wrote:

Comments are great. I also vote that you get Captcha/reCaptcha, because without comments a blog is...nothing.

How wrong can you be? On a blog with a smallish readership, I a...

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Classic, classic comeback from Neil Shubin to Stephen Colbert's question about why biologists want to believe we're descended from fish. Watch the whole video here.

So I really want to be green, mercy yes, save the ecology and all, offset my carbon emissions. And I’m really anti-GM. Playing God, y’know, and besides it makes Indian farmers commit suicide and kills rats, right? So, how do I deal with this news?

Money paid by green consumers to offset thei...

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Grain has published a new briefing on "the politics of organic seed certification". It makes all the usual points, most of which boil down to the fact that when there is a fixed cost for something -- anything -- bigger players benefit. There’s plenty of good information in the briefing, and in the...

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Over at The Viscount LaCarte's place, I find a video of a guy I didn’t know -- Tom Russell -- singing a song I didn’t know -- Who’s gonna build your wall? No surprise in the fact that I didn’t know either. The surprises are that it seems to have escaped the vast mass of drawbridge-lifters that the...

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