A mansion that's on the National Register of Historic Places is for sale in Gardner, Massachusetts. This is the SK Pierce House, built in 1873-75, it is considered one of the most haunted houses in the US. It certainly l...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/27/This-Historic-Haunted-House-Could-Be-Yours/At Less Wrong, a blog devoted to rational thinking, Arjun Panickssery notes that English language sentences have gradually decreased in length. Jane Austen (1775-1817) wrote sentences that were on average 42 words long....
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/27/Why-Have-Sentences-Become-Shorter/As World War II was drawing to a close in the spring of 1945, the Allies were advancing on German occupied territory, and the Nazis were keen to destroy evidence of the Holocaust. SS chief Heinrich Himmler was under the...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/27/Swedens-White-Bus-Rescue-From-Ravensbrck/A controversy among linguists which has been raging for a long time is the concept of universal grammar. Is there a fundamental set of rules that people use, no matter what their language is? Anyone who has tried to lear...
https://www.neatorama.com/2025/04/27/Do-All-Human-Languages-Have-Basic-Grammar-Rules/
