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'Jew in a Box' museum exhibit provokes questions in Berlin →
“I’m in the exhibit.” A weird thing to say. Or maybe I just didn’t say it right in German. Whichever, the frazzled young woman at the coat check thought I just didn’t want to wait in the longest line I’ve ever seen at Berlin’s Jewish Museum. I felt bad cutting, but it was a good 40 minutes and I had 15. The back-and-forth continued, the confusion mounting until at last a native speaker intervened: “He means, he is the exhibit.”
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Based on the number of friends who so quickly and independently came to the NPR and New York Times’ stories I was in tells me U.S. media need not fear the future quite so much. Or, my friends are total nerds.
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VIDEO: Was kann ich für Sie tun? Business & Communication Services by Bill Glucroft. (A shame the video fades out before the true end of my presentation, which I finished exactly as the timer rang. Pretty neat.)
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Sky Reporter Mark Stone Detained in China →
Amadeus Chueng, youtube.com
Bureaucracy’s circular logic. And not only in China.
I wonder where this friendly Chinese police officer learned his English so well
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Evgeny Morozov: ‘We are abandoning all the checks and balances’Ian Tucker, guardian.co.uk
Evgeny Morozov is a Belarus-born technology writer who has held positions at Stanford and Georgetown universities in the US. His first book, The Net Delusion, argued that “Western do-gooders may have missed how [the internet]… entrenches dictators…
The most interesting interview I’ve read in a long while.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/bdb4301b44ab3fce36270fa31ef34d5e/tumblr_mjho4kGbyl1ry3qxxo1_500.jpg "humblenudge:
Evgeny Morozov: ‘We are abandoning all the checks and balances’Ian Tucker, guardian.co.uk
Evgeny Morozov is a Belarus-born technology writer who has held positions at Stanford and Georgetown universities in the US. His first book, The Net Delusion, argued that “Western do-gooders may have missed how [the internet]… entrenches dictators…
The most interesting interview I’ve read in a long while.")
Evgeny Morozov: ‘We are abandoning all the checks and balances’
Ian Tucker, guardian.co.ukEvgeny Morozov is a Belarus-born technology writer who has held positions at Stanford and Georgetown universities in the US. His first book, The Net Delusion, argued that “Western do-gooders may have missed how [the internet]… entrenches dictators…
The most interesting interview I’ve read in a long while.
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The Humble Nudge: "Have got" has got to go →
English grammar isn’t the hardest. Future tenses notwithstanding, it’s pretty structured, with clear reason to use what when, obvious key words and phrases as a guide and, within the tense, forms don’t change much — he/she/it, das -s muss mit, but all the rest stays the same, and the past simple…
