US army to continue using HTS?
A worrying article in truthout is predicting that the US army my expand its use of anthropologists and other social scientists under the Obama administration. It is already a bad sign that although very few scientists who specialise in Iraq or Afghanistan will join, the army has been able to recruit plenty from other areas […]
Bad linguistics: the Indus script
A recent article in Science aims to prove that the undeciphered Indus script is in fact a written language, rather than a simple-series of signs as is the common consensus. This is part of an ongoing battle between Hindu nationalist academics, for whom proof of written language would be a major status-boost, and other researchers […]
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