Skeptophilia

The southern tip of mainland Italy is called Calabria.  It's a strikingly beautiful place, containing three national parks ( Pollino Nat...

The last two posts have been about biological extinction; today's, to continue in the same elegiac tone, is about language extinction. A...

When a region is conquered, one of the first things the conquerors usually do is to suppress (or explicitly outlaw) indigenous languages. On...

In the village of Ayapa in southern Mexico there are two old men who don't much like each other, and despite the fact that they only liv...