Laurie Pearce

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Reading Creation Myths Economically in Ancient Mesopotamia and Israel Cambridge Core - Economic History - Reading Creation Myths Economically in Ancient Mesopotamia and Israel

Planning to spam the timeline for the next 2 weeks to make sure as many people as possible can get a copy during the free period. Stay tuned for increasingly unhinged posts as I find ways to amuse myself

Did you feel it?

Just sent a thing back to the editors. Two things crept up to fill its place!

You get a night off!

Cuts to NEH and Humanities Councils: What Southern States Will Lose - Federation of State Humanities Councils Jump to Your State: Alabama | Arkansas | Georgia | Kentucky | Louisiana | Mississippi | North Carolina | Oklahoma | Tennessee | Texas On Monday, March 31, the Federation … Read more

Hats off to the Federation of State Humanities Councils, and the southern state councils for leading the way in speaking up about what they're losing with the NEH funding cuts.

We will not blindly follow illegal orders because Donald Trump wrote them down on a piece of paper.

Illinois follows the laws of the land – not the decrees of an aspiring king hell bent on disenfranchising millions of voters who deserve to have their voice heard.

Elementary Phoenician – Grammar and Inscriptions

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And here in the US, with the shutdown of the weather service, those 20,000 residents might get no warnings.

vaccinate your child. As a survivor of the measles, I lost much of my eyesight but am guaranteed immunity. My son, as an adult, just went and received a booster to ensure the 97% effectiveness that he can have with the vaccine. It is a PREVENTABLE DISEASE.

It's hard to describe what a feat this is, and shouldered by a much smaller group than the folks who captured the data. @asegerberg.bsky.social has been chipping away at this database for years. Rescuing data is hard, but curating & publishing it is a much harder, lonely slog. Prepare for it.

That 10% of what just got cut from Education.

Priceless ;)

letter sent to my rep (former speaker Pelosi)! @homophonous.bsky.social has gotten me into active letter writing mode

My Superb Owl pick

Photo of a fragment of a clay tablet shaped a bit like a diamond. Although it is only a fragment, the cuneiform text on it is well-preserved. There is a vertical line down the centre which indicates it once had at least two columns. The colour is reddish brown

“Do not bend your neck for that which cuts necks.”

A Sumerian proverb, as relevant today as it was thousands of years ago.

Give the workshop talk. There is no excuse for such inconsiderate treatment of a guest speaker.

Thank you for posting Miriam! I've never made such calls, and there is no better time than now to start. Thanks for the head-start with the script and list of contacts!!!

Please post when/where that appears!

alf mabruk!

I learned the word from an episode of Wait, Wait (I think---it was definitely NPR)

editor asked for acceptance of a number of small changes. done and thing sent back.

At least you can find eggs!

I was going to say it has a blue cover, but then I saw the rest of your post.

Time for re-reads (to fortify before the semester starts)!

It's all sheep and goats!

Take care! Speedy recovery.

🐝cause that may not have been installed in the departure area in 2001.

Ah, the cloak of invisibility!