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This new, delightful book by Harald Wiese introduces Sanskrit using sound laws, and cognates from English, Latin, and other IE languages. (open access) hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/catalog/book/1… [⚠️ covers morphology, but not usable as a complete Sk textbook: sentences are hardly taught]

HUGE NEWS and what it means: This morning, USAID, Stop TB Partnership, and The Global Fund jointly announced that Danaher will lower the price of their standard TB test cartridge by 20% to $7.97. This isn't the 50% reduction we hoped for BUT... Danaher Corporation is also committing to ZERO profit in

This suggests that the only thing that makes Cambridge better is not what they do but who they let in... (but yay Lancaster!!)

Twelve more days until this online course on Bach's Goldberg Variations taught by @lorehouse.bsky.social and yours truly blackberry.signumuniversity.org/space/modules/…

Got a batch of essays and there was one I was pretty sure was AI-generated. Talked with the student and was convinced this was not in fact the case. Student just kind of writes like AI. Put in more of your own voice, I suggested. She her h.s. teachers told her the same thing.

Can I get to 111 subscribers today? youtube.com/@digitaltolkien

The Program in Indo-European Studies and Classics are hiring! We’re conducting an open-rank search in Classical Linguistics, Literature and Culture. Review of applications will begin on November 3rd. Full details here: recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF08812

Join us on Friday, October 6 at 2pm ET for a Thesis Theater that explores the meaning of Homer’s epithets! "More Complicated Than They Seem: The Semantic and Narrative Meaning in Homeric Epithets" with Kira Tregoning ow.ly/W3SB50PRGvZ

The more I listen to it, the clearer it is to me that the Víkingur Ólafsson Goldberg Variations are an absolute triumph. I am inexpressibly delighted that I get to share this groundbreaking performance with my SPACE class and James Tauber this month.

Today we are announcing a major breakthrough in the Vesuvius Challenge: we have read the first word from an unopened Herculaneum scroll. The word is "πορφυρας" which means "purple dye" or "cloths of purple." scrollprize.org/firstletters Congratulations to 21yo computer science

I wondered how we get the donors for this prize to help fund other digital classics work

Join The Man of the West as he welcomes the talented — and busy — James Tauber to chat about his 12-month course on The History of Middle-earth, his continuing efforts on the Digital Tolkien Project, and a lot more. spreaker.com/user/prancingp…

Nice thing about new webpage: #lifeandlanguage 🎙️🎧 can now be displayed in better format - with space for forthcoming transcripts (wip!) Overview of season 3 so far👇 Enjoyed it, have any feedback, want to add to the wish list, etc? Email or DM me 🙏 michaelamahlberg.com

Oh hey John Garth and James Tauber are in town! There was no shortage of forks.

I'm pretty much just over on Bluesky now. Find me there or ask for an invite code.

Bluesky is now open. Find me there: bsky.app/profile/jtaube…

A reminder that I'm James Tauber.com where the skies are blue.