Guns, Glory, and Greed: Most wars were not caused by religion (but they weren’t prevented by it either)

TL;DR

1. Lots of people say things like ‘religion causes war’
2. But looking at a list of wars shows that…

17 Things Everyone Should Know About Language But Doesn’t Even Know to Ask

Languages are not a simple matter of grammar. Any language policy must consider what is known about language from the fields of pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and cognitive linguistics. Here I collected…

History as weather: A fractal theory of history for Ian Morris, Jared Diamond and CGP Grey

Fruit loops and metaphors: Metaphors are not about explaining the abstract through concrete but about the dynamic process of negotiated sensemaking

There are too many words for scavenger in Czech but none of them was good enough for Star Wars: Adventures in Undertranslation

Warning: May contain spoilers for the easily spoiled.

Quick notes on measurement: Measuring anything and nothing

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Innovation is bad for business: 3 more ‘I’ words to compare innovation to

No back row, no corridor: Metaphors for online teaching and learning

The state of digital dislocation…

Learning vs training in machines and organizations: Production of knowledge vs production of capability — Exploration of metaphors