1. About damn time. Though, like it says in the article, it needs to be expanded to first-years too.
2. Wasn't Sesame Street supposed to be educational?
What precisely is the lesson to be learned from this? That information can be looked up in books?
And this? That disco is scary and early techno is good?
3. Let's learn about animals!
(From a 16th century bestiary....)
The Hyena
[I]t stalks the sheepfolds of shepherds and circles their houses by night, and by listening carefully learns their speech, so that it can imitate the human voice, in order to fall on any man whom it has lured out at night.
The hyena also [imitates] human vomit and devours the dogs it has enticed with faked sounds of retching.
The Parrot
Its skull is so thick, that if ever you have to admonish it with blows to learn - for it tries hard to speak like men - you should beat it with an iron rod.
Man
Varro says that the kidneys, renes, are so called because streams, rivus, of the obscene fluid [semen] rise there.
The loins, lumbi, get their name from the wantonness of lust, libido, because the seat of fleshly pleasure in men is there, just as in women it is in the navel.
The word for testicles, testiculi, is a diminutive of testis, witness; there is a minumum of two. They supply to the penis, calamus, semen which the kidneys and loins take from the spinal cord, in order to create a fetus.
The posterior parts of the body are so called because they are at the rear, turned away from the face, lest when we empty our bowels, we should defile our gaze.
4. This is far too much fun.
5. It's always amazing how much the human body can be modified and still function.
2. Wasn't Sesame Street supposed to be educational?
What precisely is the lesson to be learned from this? That information can be looked up in books?
And this? That disco is scary and early techno is good?
3. Let's learn about animals!
(From a 16th century bestiary....)
The Hyena
[I]t stalks the sheepfolds of shepherds and circles their houses by night, and by listening carefully learns their speech, so that it can imitate the human voice, in order to fall on any man whom it has lured out at night.
The hyena also [imitates] human vomit and devours the dogs it has enticed with faked sounds of retching.
The Parrot
Its skull is so thick, that if ever you have to admonish it with blows to learn - for it tries hard to speak like men - you should beat it with an iron rod.
Man
Varro says that the kidneys, renes, are so called because streams, rivus, of the obscene fluid [semen] rise there.
The loins, lumbi, get their name from the wantonness of lust, libido, because the seat of fleshly pleasure in men is there, just as in women it is in the navel.
The word for testicles, testiculi, is a diminutive of testis, witness; there is a minumum of two. They supply to the penis, calamus, semen which the kidneys and loins take from the spinal cord, in order to create a fetus.
The posterior parts of the body are so called because they are at the rear, turned away from the face, lest when we empty our bowels, we should defile our gaze.
4. This is far too much fun.
5. It's always amazing how much the human body can be modified and still function.
Labels: animals, anthropology, archaeology, Brown, language, sex
