TillRaether Hab einen Vormittag was mit Studierenden gemacht, sie schenken mir dafür eine Schachtel MERCI-Schokolade. Toll, aber schade, dass es von der Firma nichts zum Zurücküberreichen gibt, gr. Packung DE RIEN, oder DAFÜR NICHT (Hamburg) oder HÖRNSE UFF (Berlin)
JimPropp My kid just told me “I have good news and bad news for you.” It turned out that the good news was that there was no bad news and the bad news was that there was no good news. I’m still trying to figure out how many of these assertions were true.
_julesh_ every path/.append style={very thick} is like a magic "look better" button
@_julesh_ The latter is hard to say because when a strong form gains popularity, it might be new but it might also have survived in a non-standard variety.
@_julesh_ Do you really mean coined a new verb, or strengthened an existing weak verb?
@johncarlosbaez @_julesh_ “From its earliest appearance in print in the late 19th century as a dialectal and probably uneducated form, the past and past participle snuck has risen to the status of standard and to approximate equality with sneaked.” merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sne…
ALMAN müsste eigentlich die Hausmarke von so einem Biosupermarkt sein.
EnglishGibson “Und jedem Anfang wohnt ein Zauber inne”
—Hermann Hesse, Stufen
“A little magic dwells in each beginning”
—translation in the Economist, quoting Angela Merkel, who used the well-known phrase during her first meeting with Emmanuel Macron.
It must have been a very nice envelope. twitter.com/thehill/status…
Dieser Wettstreit unter den Tech- Riesen, wer seiner neuen App den generischsten Namen geben kann
clemensetz Also meine Lieblingsprimzahlen sind
19 - mürrisch rötlich wie uralte Mauern in deutschen Kleinstädten
23 - weil hat so kleinen hofstaat an Verschwörungstheorien
37 - sieht in meinem Kopf wie gelbgrünes kleines Raumschiff aus
127 - freundlich, glatt mit rotem Streichholzkopf
“linguistic representations such as syntax trees have not yet gone the way of the visual edge detector or the auditory triphone” twitter.com/jacobeisenstei…
zeitonline Es ist Zeit, sich einen #Organspendeausweis zu holen. Ja, auch wenn Sie kein Organspender sein wollen. Zum Tag der #Organspende empfehlen wir noch einmal diesen Text: zeit.to/2J5l9Iz #Archiv
fawfulfan Trump assumes every transaction in the world — between people, businesses, nation-states, even between two different agencies of the same government — has a winner and a loser, a scammer and a sucker. He believes if you're not ripping someone off, you're getting ripped off.
StuartJRitchie 1) Our new genome-wide association study for IQ (nature.com/articles/s4146…) included the peripheral result that some genes linked to higher IQ are also linked to higher likelihood of poor eyesight. Here's how the media bollocksed up the coverage of it in almost every way: