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I’ve chosen a more calming header image here than the political one I use over at the bird site. (Photo of the grounds at Stourhead National Trust in Wiltshire.)

A grammatical problem which has defeated #Sanskrit scholars since the 5thC BC finally solved by an Indian #PhD student at the University of #Cambridge.

Rishi Rajpopat (St John's College) made the breakthrough by decoding a rule taught by “the father of #linguistics#Pāṇini.

The discovery makes it possible to 'derive' any Sanskrit word – to construct millions of grammatically correct words including ‘mantra’ and ‘guru’ – using Pāṇini’s revered ‘#language machine’ https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/solving-grammars-greatest-puzzle

Ancient grammatical puzzle solved after 2,500 years

How a determined student made Sanskrit’s ‘language machine’ work for the first time in 2,500 years

University of Cambridge

The Aurora Borealis as seen from Aberdeenshure.

It was taken over Tarland, Aberdeenshire. NOT BY ME! I think this is the photographer:

https://www.instagram.com/whiteskyphotographics/

Former Top Twitter official urges Twitter users to monitor the functioning of key safety features such as muting, blocking and protected tweets as early warning signs the platform may be breaking down.

“If protected tweets stop working, run,” he said.

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/11/29/tech/yoel-roth-twitter-elon-musk/index.html?utm_source=fbCNNi&utm_content=2022-11-30T09%3A00%3A38&utm_medium=social&utm_term=link

UK recovering ‘dramatically’ worse from Covid than EU, says Bank of England governor

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/uk-economy-covid-worse-eu-us-boe-b2226487.html

UK economy recovering ‘dramatically’ worse from Covid than EU and US, says Bank of England governor

Andrew Bailey says the different in economic performance is ‘stark’

The Independent

POLL: If you've been on #Mastodon for over a week and used it each day, what do you do plan to do with your #twitter account at this moment?

Boost for a larger sample size please.

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Delete Twitter account
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It's embarrassing and undignified. Most Americans have no idea how much their actions make the rest of the world suffer as they complain about what they think are high food and gasoline prices.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/LuvSustainables/status/1591363613104930818

SUSTAINABLES.EARTH on Twitter

“It's embarrassing and undignified. Most Americans have no idea how much their actions make the rest of the world suffer as they complain about what they think are high food and gasoline prices.”

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@debra @kotaro The rush-hour crush is still the norm in major cities, it's built into the infrastructure. The flip-side is that travel by train is considerably faster than driving for many urban journeys. As improvement at the margins, recently women-only carriages at rush hour have become common. And certainly many people get on perfectly well without a car, even in the suburbs.
#MattHancock is seeking forgiveness. BUT for what?
He seems to think it is only for his affair. It is not. He still defends his actions during COVID.
- Not addressing inadequacy of PPE in Jan 2020 but instead saying NHS could cope. Even though Cygnus Report clearly identified the problem and he had stopped checking and replenishment of stocks.
- giving guidance to hospitals to discharge patients to care homes w/o COVID tests and misleading that care homes were protected
Sunday #slowboat #photo is a river sunset
@Elsewhere55 Posting politics on Mastodon servers without Content Warnings is not a great idea. It harms the platform and users will avoid you.