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  • Mike Shaughnessy
    4:38 am Thu, Oct 1, 2020
    Google Maps' Nazi problem

    Google Maps' reviewing system has provided a platform for Nazi sympathizers and antisemitic harassment for years. It's a quiet example of the trillion-dollar tech giant's disinterest in moderation—and a loud… Read the rest of the article: Google Maps' Nazi problem

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  • Mike Shaughnessy
    9:55 am Thu, Jan 23, 2020
    Love Letters to Hitler

    A cult of private fealty to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler grew in the years before World War II, reflecting public fawning by the Reich's city fathers. These love letters – some from prominent Americans – now read as a warning.

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  • Mike Shaughnessy
    8:55 am Fri, Apr 17, 2015
    Want to know why men fight—and why we like to watch?

    Jon Gottschall is a man you want at every academic dinner party. He seems to have read everything, takes interest in the work of others, and can converse for hours about anything.

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  • Mike Shaughnessy
    11:00 pm Mon, Jun 2, 2014
    Hitler's bookbinder

    Michael Shaughnessy reports the untold story of Frieda Thiersch—and the mysteries of her life, her motives and her books

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  • Mike Shaughnessy
    12:03 pm Wed, Jan 26, 2011
    Guestblogger signing off!

    I am signing off as a BB guest blogger. It has been a great deal of fun to post here occasionally and I was very happy to contribute to a… Read the rest of the article: Guestblogger signing off!

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  • Mike Shaughnessy
    3:47 pm Tue, Jan 25, 2011
    Welcome to Bierwelt, Bavaria's theme park based on beer

    I invite you to make the journey deep into the heart of Bavaria. Only 90km from Munich lies Abensberg in the Hallertau, the world's largest hop growing region. Abensberg is… Read the rest of the article: Welcome to Bierwelt, Bavaria's theme park based on beer

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  • Mike Shaughnessy
    12:39 am Tue, Jan 18, 2011
    Art-mageddon: Artistic impulses in post-war Munich

    I am in Munich teaching a three week travel-course with some of my German majors. In preparation for this course, I have been digging through a number of items to… Read the rest of the article: Art-mageddon: Artistic impulses in post-war Munich

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  • Mike Shaughnessy
    12:10 am Thu, Dec 2, 2010
    1895 Viennese Archetype Images

    I recently posted a collection of archetypal images from 1895 to the CAPL web site. These images were drawings by Ferdninand Wüst as 'figural compositions', or images that symbolically tell… Read the rest of the article: 1895 Viennese Archetype Images

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  • Mike Shaughnessy
    1:53 am Wed, Dec 1, 2010
    CAPL, an open multilingual photo dictionary

    As a language teacher, I am always making my own materials. Good language teachers do this habitually. We don't only rely on content provided to us; we constantly tinker with… Read the rest of the article: CAPL, an open multilingual photo dictionary

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  • Mike Shaughnessy
    9:41 pm Mon, Nov 29, 2010
    Testing the TSA with Titanium Man

    Photo: Wikimedia Commons I have been covertly testing airport security since early 2002. I file no reports and the only notes I take are mental. I am the person that… Read the rest of the article: Testing the TSA with Titanium Man

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  • Mike Shaughnessy
    7:30 am Sun, Oct 17, 2010
    How (not) to exterminate a book.

    As a book freak (bibliophile is just too refined to describe my love for certain bound publications) I have been researching the case of a particular poetry volume for a… Read the rest of the article: How (not) to exterminate a book.

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  • Mike Shaughnessy
    4:00 am Sat, Oct 16, 2010
    My Man Anton Schutz: An Immigrant's View of the New York

    Anton Schutz in his studio When talking about immigration, it is either an often cited or often forgotten fact that most of us here in the USA are decendents of… Read the rest of the article: My Man Anton Schutz: An Immigrant's View of the New York

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  • Mike Shaughnessy
    4:00 am Thu, Oct 7, 2010
    Being Dead in Pittsburgh

    Pittsburgh's weird geography means that you never know quite what lies underfoot. Old maps and folk history reveal the forgotten graveyards hidden beneath asphalt and office blocks — or reclaimed by nature.

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  • Mike Shaughnessy
    12:00 am Wed, Aug 11, 2010
    1906: vintage color photos of Europe

    A selection of untinted vintage color photographs, dating to 1906, of locations in Europe. The set was marked: "Institute for Color Photography, Carl Weller, Berlin/Verlagsanstalt für Farbenfotographie, 1906."

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  • Mike Shaughnessy
    8:38 am Wed, Jul 28, 2010
    Postcard from Language Camp

    Greetings from one of the best places in the world to learn foreign languages! DLI, CIA University? No, a small town in Vermont that hosts an annual summer language institute:… Read the rest of the article: Postcard from Language Camp

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  • Mike Shaughnessy
    10:15 am Sun, Jun 27, 2010
    Seeing Languages Differently

    How we see the world impacts our use of language and our use of language impacts how we see the world. Cognitive scientists in the vein of Benjamin Whorf regularly… Read the rest of the article: Seeing Languages Differently

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  • Mike Shaughnessy
    9:00 am Sun, Jun 6, 2010
    How the military improved its language education

    We may ask why the US sends troops abroad, but the fact is that we do send large numbers into a region about which they have little knowledge and almost… Read the rest of the article: How the military improved its language education

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  • Mike Shaughnessy
    10:00 am Wed, May 26, 2010
    Chramer, gip die varwe mir! Germans and Colors

    Chramer, gip die varwe mir (Shopkeeper, give me color!) is a line from a drinking song in the Carmina Burana, a medieval collection of songs and poems in Old Latin… Read the rest of the article: Chramer, gip die varwe mir! Germans and Colors

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  • Mike Shaughnessy
    11:36 am Wed, Mar 3, 2010
    Labeling the consumer: how mindless ID-scanning can hurt customers

    Photo: Hryck. / Todd Pennsylvania is sometimes referred to as "East Utah" in regards to its legendarily restrictive alcohol laws. Where else in the United States were you forced to… Read the rest of the article: Labeling the consumer: how mindless ID-scanning can hurt customers

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