The NSF sponsors a Documenting Endangered Languages granting program (now with a solicitation for doctoral students working in this area, too) for just this reason. My university got a grant a few years ago to create a database of an indigenous language spoken in our state that only has about 50 native speakers…

I’d just like to note - because this story is important and some commenters seem confused - that it’s beyond appalling to compare white communities losing their accents because of globalization to the lingering effects of systematic cultural genocide that has marginalized and disempowered native communities for…

If they aren’t your thing, they aren’t your thing, and that’s fine. But if what you’re looking for is a high-quality ensemble action movie with a bunch of bonkers, well-staged, thrilling set pieces and dialogue that leans hard into cheese in a beautifully self-aware way, you really can’t beat this franchise. I spent…

It only implied the end of the series if you know little enough about the series to think that they privilege sensible titles over the ability to market as “F8.”

I’ll go to bat for her on this; obviously I can’t access it now, but she’s been really open and thoughtful about the question of critiquing people’s homes. Nobody has to live in a million dollar McMansion - she focuses exclusively on large, incredibly expensive houses that are poorly designed and poorly built. She…

It was Allison Williams! I remember because Mindy Kaling posted a picture on Instagram of her getting ice cream at the Friendly Store and I lost my mind.

Meeteetse. I’m calling it.

Does anyone know how to do them right?

Hay is NOTHING. Remember the upside-down room???

You, uh, ever been to Yellowstone?

We have the only government-sanctioned monument to a prostitute (Mother Featherlegs!) here in Wyoming.

I’m interested to see how this plays out. I believe, on a level, that as people (not personas) Johnson, Curry, and Copeland are wrestling with walking a weird line. I also think of the three of then, the Rock probably has enough cachet to make a pretty big splash in the public eye and within the company if he were to…

God, thank you for this comment. I am so sick of these weird thin narratives that Rousey somehow beat herself by trying to box a boxer AND that she’s a one trick pony who fought cans. Holm fought one hell of a fight against her.

Concussions are actually just the jiggle of the brain, not the brain hitting the skull. I agree with your comment that the right connecting is what rattled Sage and basically won the fight for Gall (as Sage reverted to — bad — instinct), but I just wanted to point that out because it’s a common misconception!

Right, the moment right before Gall connects with the overhand right is just as telling, too — Sage throws a pretty textbook knee in the clinch and winds up for that left hook, but isn’t prepared for someone who can really muscle him around the way Gall can. Gall’s movement right before the punch that drops Sage is a…

A punch is just a push with some mustard on it, when you get down to brass tacks.

Ha, well, hard to extend a career that never really gets off the ground...

Sage: *hands an apple to Nate Diaz* “Hey Nate, try the apple challenge!!!!”

Yup, it is! If my gossip memory is correct, that was supposed to be one of the reasons his dad had issues with Tristar, right?