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Hands-on, museum-minded historian of sci-med-tech. Trismegistus PhD. ICOM-UMAC. Editor. Anti-biro. @[email protected]

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@pickover sounds cheaper than paying a university to get only the tiniest fraction of that, and needing to wait through several years of courses to find out that that fraction is even tinier than you had hoped for

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@aktange This sort of advice is typical of famous authors who have no idea how they write, and no idea how to teach. Some editor has imagined profits in suggesting that they write their intuitive knack down. The money's is in the author, not the content.

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@AmitaYoshi @YanHeCUL it's very much how I'd imagine chinoiserie might look, had it arisen in art deco times

[Dr Yan He @YanHeCUL]

Anyone knows these Chinese characters, writing style and which time period they are from? Many thanks for your help!

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@johnmdudley Aerodynamics?

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@KyleDChurch He's eating the photographer's lunch.

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@edtechmathteach @Jennw1983 I did graduate work in both, and in education. I find them identical. The reason why they look different is because we rarely get deep enough into the other side, and often not even into our own side, to see what it really is.

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And these things catalogued as "opium pipes" – I have a strong feeling that they're actually water pipes for tobacco. That raises an interesting question: why are they catalogued as opium pipes in museums all around the world – curator/collector fetish?

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What can #museums do that individual #collections can't? What counts as "Chinese" in New Zealand? Yes, we all know that #Chinese people came here – but who went there?
https://t.co/YWG2I8oWQz

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@pickover NZQAR: New Zealand Qualifications Authority Rort.

[Gilbert Wong @GilbertWongnz]

Imagine a Pacific Language Week that focussed only on Samoan. Therein lies the problem with Chinese Language Week in NZ. The Chinese, diaspora and otherwise are not a monolith and it would be weird if they were.

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@odavies9 There could be a worthwhile agitation in asking students for directions to their offices, and playing politely and apologetically helpless about not having anywhere appropriate to meet.

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@WgtnChineseHist I learnt Italian in Melbourne where it's taught as an Australian heritage language. It kept the department lively. This article is of the view that Chinese isn't a New Zealand heritage language. That might help to explain why our departments are nearly dead.

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@JulesBass6 or hire an editor.

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@SeanSturm @NZNationalParty It would be so nice if rentals didn't get exempted from the Consumer Guarantees Act. I would love some refunds.

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@AucklandIsland Easy: not Christians.

[Sā́mapriyaḣ སཱམཔྲིཡཿ @avzaagzonunaada]

Terrible news. The last speaker of the Beḷāra language (an underdescribed South Dravidian language presumed to be closely related to Tulu), Sidda Beḷāra, has passed away.

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@sthnjade there's also this one in 'proper' Mandarin for people whose ancestors came during the imperial era. At least one imperial mandarin was appointed in New Zealand https://t.co/ENTj9lDDrk #NZCLW

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@sthnjade How's this? #NZCLW #savecantonese

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@hellomotorbike At that age, I was hired as a computer tech and sent out alone to do work that no one else in the company except my boss could do. Clients paid them the same. The youth wage for same or better work is clearly an employee-funded business subsidy.