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Can you really explain the difference? Subtle nuances of English words

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Hermit vs. Anchorite A hermit retires from society to live alone in the wilderness. An anchorite...
Hermit vs. Anchorite A hermit retires from society to live alone in the wilderness. An anchorite retires from society to live in an enclosed cell attached to a church. One lives apart. The other, within. Eclectic Ascetics Hermit dwellings, or hermitages, can be as simple and remote as a cave in the desert, or as dev...
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The Collapse of Small Press Distribution

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"She's Bouncing the Ball " on the Uncanny Way Octopuses Play

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One day in 1997, psychology professor Jennifer Mather answered her phone to hear the excited voice...
One day in 1997, psychology professor Jennifer Mather answered her phone to hear the excited voice of Roland Anderson, her collaborator in a rather unusual study of animal behavior. “She’s bouncing the ball!” He was speaking in figurative terms, but ones he knew Mather would understand. The “she” was an octopus perh...
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A Vanishing World: On Europe's Disappearing Peasantry

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You travel north from my father’s house on the Galway-Mayo border in Ireland’s far West. North...
You travel north from my father’s house on the Galway-Mayo border in Ireland’s far West. North and west of you and never far away lies the Atlantic Ocean. Belderrig is reached after a long drive, for the county of Mayo is big, and the narrow country roads take long to travel. Though not as long as in the days of J.M...
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Rebecca Solnit: How to Comment on Social Media

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Benjamín Labatut Will Not Be Profiled

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I sensed that Benjamín Labatut would be a challenge to profile because his work is heady...
I sensed that Benjamín Labatut would be a challenge to profile because his work is heady and elusive. His English-language debut, When We Cease to Understand the World, was part-essay, part-fiction, a fractal sequence that dove into the imagined minds of scientists and mathematicians like Werner Heisenberg and Erwin...
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Can you really explain the difference? Subtle nuances of English words

The Collapse of Small Press Distribution

"She's Bouncing the Ball " on the Uncanny Way Octopuses Play

A Vanishing World: On Europe's Disappearing Peasantry

Rebecca Solnit: How to Comment on Social Media

Benjamín Labatut Will Not Be Profiled