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Language Log » The Musical Origin of the Seven-Day Week This is my favorite thing that I've read this week. So the days of the week are named after the "seven classical planets" because in ancient Mesopotamia's earth-centric cosmology the sun and the moon are also planets (but translated into their Norse equivalents in English) but the order is based on... a philosophy that goes back to ancient Persia/Mesopotamia and is based on the major scale and the circle of fifths?
Sam Greene on Twitter: "So, I'm increasingly seeing stories like this one, together with takes from foreign policy analysts along the lines of "the West lacks a strategy for deterring Russia." (You know who you are.) And it's going to make my head explode. (An annoyed 🧵) https://t.co/sv8A9EPsir" Strategy, war, economics
Daily Dot: 3 Women Accuse Director Cary Fukunaga (Bond No Time to Die) of Manipulation, Abuse via Hello Tailor on Twitter
Gavia Baker-Whitelaw on Twitter: "when amitabh bachchan whipped this one out... [SonyMusicIndiaVEVO on YouTube: Say "Shava Shava" Full Video: Watch both Bollywood Badshahs - Amitabh Bachchan and Shah Rukh Khan shake a leg in this punjabi folk based song from the film 'Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham', ably supported by Jaya Bachchan and Rani Mukherjee.]"
Language Log » The Musical Origin of the Seven-Day Week This is my favorite thing that I've read this week. So the days of the week are named after the "seven classical planets" because in ancient Mesopotamia's earth-centric cosmology the sun and the moon are also planets (but translated into their Norse equivalents in English) but the order is based on... a philosophy that goes back to ancient Persia/Mesopotamia and is based on the major scale and the circle of fifths?
Sam Greene on Twitter: "So, I'm increasingly seeing stories like this one, together with takes from foreign policy analysts along the lines of "the West lacks a strategy for deterring Russia." (You know who you are.) And it's going to make my head explode. (An annoyed 🧵) https://t.co/sv8A9EPsir" Strategy, war, economics
Daily Dot: 3 Women Accuse Director Cary Fukunaga (Bond No Time to Die) of Manipulation, Abuse via Hello Tailor on Twitter
Gavia Baker-Whitelaw on Twitter: "when amitabh bachchan whipped this one out... [SonyMusicIndiaVEVO on YouTube: Say "Shava Shava" Full Video: Watch both Bollywood Badshahs - Amitabh Bachchan and Shah Rukh Khan shake a leg in this punjabi folk based song from the film 'Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham', ably supported by Jaya Bachchan and Rani Mukherjee.]"