Since the beginning of time, languages have been disappearing, fading into obscurity as time, war and various other factors make them obsolete. Often, people transition out of one language into another, either by choice or because they were forced to, which linguists...
In response to growing calls to appoint a “Czar” to lead America’s battle against Ebola, President Obama is planning to name Ron Klain, a longtime political hand who doesn’t seem to have any medical or health care background. However, Klain isn’t completely without...
It’s well-known that the American Indians and Siberian tribes share common ancestors; the ancestors of the first American Indians arrived in the Americas some 20,000 to 15,000 years ago via a land bridge that collected Alaska and Siberia, and after the land bridge was...
I recently came across a blog post about an ad campaign that Russians living in Ukraine have launched, telling the Russian government that they don’t want (or need) to be saved. According to Putin, his intervention in Ukraine is to “protect” the country’s ethnic...
