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Herzlich willkommen!

I only just noticed this thread. Welcome back thedoc! Very glad to hear you are on the mend.

Hi Jeff, welcome to the forum! Glad you like the mag.

bahman wrote: ↑

Sun Feb 03, 2019 3:50 pm

Neutron? What you are talking about?

Possibly it's a typo and gaffo meant to say neutrinos?

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A_Seagull wrote: ↑

Mon Nov 05, 2018 1:13 am

Interesting that the article was written some 27 years ago. I wonder how the author would view political correctness now. It certainly hasn't gone away. If anything it has become more entrenched and become mainstream normality.

I'll ask him, if you like.

I can remove threads, and sometimes have. I'm pretty sure I didn't delete that one, though. If I had, that action would probably show up anyway in the log that AMod consulted. (At least, I think it would - not 100% certain about that). Like AMod says, there will probably be a new moderator/ass-kicke...

No relation at all, I'm afraid. :) In the 1990s I had an admin job for a few years in the Philosophy Department at King's College London. One of the lecturers there, Dr Chris Hughes, was on the editorial board of a scholarly journal (Mind, I think) and had been communicating with David Lewis about ...

Hi Luxin, and welcome!

No relation at all, I'm afraid. :) In the 1990s I had an admin job for a few years in the Philosophy Department at King's College London. One of the lecturers there, Dr Chris Hughes, was on the editorial board of a scholarly journal (Mind, I think) and had been communicating with David Lewis about a...

From memory, Bill Bryson in his book "Mother Tongue" speculates that Yankees is derived from the Dutch "Jan Kees" meaning "John Cheese", apparently the name of a sort of stock character in Dutch culture. If correct, this would mean that the word Yankees dates back to the time of the Dutch colonies i...

Not much gender philosophy in here. I mean there is some, but not very much at all. So I'm moving this thread to the Lounge.

Thanks for the colour advice. I would just point out that US news reports about American politics often talk about red states and blue states. The "blue states" are the ones that tend to vote Democrat, while the "red states" are the ones that habitually vote Republican - ie they are the more right w...

Hello Anne,

Welcome to the forum!