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Language, brains, self
Grace - Mirror by phil41dean (cc by)
Kid, champ, you, we: what do you call yourself when you're talking to yourself?
Humor, family history and linguistic innovation: some great Mefite stories about minority languages in threads on Yiddish and Chinese dialects
Rolling your tongue and using bright light to induce a sneeze: body tricks that not everybody can do
Seeing where it all starts: fun experiments on your toddler's amazing brain
The nitty gritty
Ancient Epidavros by AldoBergsma (cc by)
modernhypatia tells us how to approach ancient Greek theater and lysimache suggests how to get started learning ancient Greek to read the tragedies for yourself.
functionequalsform gives us the inside tips and tricks from a retail makeup artist.
none of these will bring disaster has the inside scoop on how local news programs get made.
Deoridhe offers a timeline of prominent women in science fiction to bust the myth that sci fi has always been for boys
On a post about Mefi's own Maciej Cegłowski's Antarctica essay, we hear from some Mefites who have lived at McMurdo Station, Antarctica. McMurdo not remote enough? How about a daring mid-winter rescue mission at the South Pole?
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