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How can you cheat… at drinking wine? It turns out you can. And when you do, a whole world of power, ego and money will unravel. Corked is the scandalous saga in the glamorous, competitive and mysterious world of fine wines.

Have you heard that language is violence and that science is sexist? Have you read that certain people shouldn't practice yoga? Or been told that being obese is healthy, that there is no such thing as biological sex, or that only White people can be racist? Are you confused by these ideas, and do you wonder how they have managed to challenge the logic of Western society? In this probing volume, Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay document the evolution of the dogma that informs these ideas, from its coarse origins in French postmodernism to its refinement within activist academic fields.

This podcast explores Popular Culture in the Americas, hosted by Dr. Melissa Maldonado-Salcedo. Pablo G. Alvarez produces it. This course is offered at New York University in the department of Anthropology at New York University. To download the syllabus and study guides or to read more about my work, please visit: www.melthestorydoc.com

Zwei Themen stehen bei dieser Ausgabe von ECOS Spanisch lernen Audio im Mittelpunkt: Zum einen feiern die Menschen in Spanien gerne, und zwar im privaten Bereich und ganz besondere Höhepunkte sind die diversen Stadt- und Patronatsfeste. Und wer zum Feiern geht, hat danach auch immer etwas zu berichten: Es gibt Sprachtipps, wie man Anekdoten und von kleinen Erlebnissen erzählt; dazu wie immer entsprechender Wortschatz und einige Erlebnisse: ein beinahe missglücktes Familienfest, ein denkwürdiges Klassentreffen und ein Besuch bei den "Jaleos" auf Menorca.

Volksfeste gibt's in Spanien das ganze Jahr, und der Februar ist auch südlich der Pyrenäen der Monat des Karnevals: Teneriffa und Cádiz sind hier zu nennen. Wie immer bringt "ECOS Spanisch lernen Audio" zum Thema des Monats Dialoge und Wortschatz und diesmal auch bestimmte Redemittel im Gespräch, um die Aufmerksamkeit des Partners aufrechtzuerhalten.

Все мы, так или иначе, находимся во власти обстоятельств. Желания не исполняются, мечты не сбываются, зато худшие ожидания, как назло, оправдываются. Неужели нельзя наоборот? Оказывается, можно.

Slang, writes Michael Adams, is poetry on the down low, and sometimes lowdown poetry on the down low, but rarely, if ever, merely lowdown. It is the poetry of everyday speech, the people's poetry, and it deserves attention as language playing on the cusp of art. In Slang: The People's Poetry, Adams covers this perennially interesting subject in a serious but highly engaging way, illuminating the fundamental question "What is Slang" and defending slang - and all forms of nonstandard English - as integral parts of the American language.

With provocative discussions from both professional and fan writers, on subjects from Star Trek to The X-Files and Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Harry Potter, Twilight, and beyond, Fic sheds light on the widely misunderstood world(s) of fanfiction - not only how fanfiction is transforming the literary landscape, but how it already has.

Anyone who observes the skyrocketing number of incendiary political opinion shows on television and radio might conclude that political vitriol on the airwaves is fueled by the increasingly partisan American political system. But in The Outrage Industry Jeffrey M. Berry and Sarah Sobieraj show how the proliferation of outrage says more about regulatory, technological, and cultural changes, than it does about our political inclinations.

Dr. Tim Groseclose, a professor of political science and economics at UCLA, has spent years constructing precise quantitative measures of the slant of media outlets. He does this by measuring the political content of news, as a way to measure the PQ, or political quotient, of voters and politicians.

Sweet foods, such as Japanese and Western confectionaries, are known as kanmi (sweets).

Umeboshi are a type of pickle made from ume (plums) fruits that are dried in the sun after being salted and soaked in ume vinegar.

Chawanmushi is a dish made by mixing various ingredients along with a beaten egg and dashi stock in a small bowl.

Rice has been an important part of the lives of Japanese people since ancient times.

Among the many types of egg cuisines, tamagoyaki is said to be one of Japan's unique household dishes. It is also known as atsuyaki tamago.

As well as okonomiyaki and takoyaki, there is another type of well-known "flour-based food" called monjayaki.

Tsukemono is a kind of food, mostly vegetables, that has been pickled in salt, rice bran, miso, or something else.

The fundamental components of Japanese meals are rice, soup, and side dishes, with the soup providing both water and salt.

Tsukudani is a dish that boils foods like seafood, seaweed, or vegetables in a salty-sweet seasoning made from ingredients such as sugar, soy sauce, and mirin.

In Japan, "croquette" refers to a food that is made by mixing boiled and crushed potatoes with minced meat, covering it in bread crumbs, and frying it until the outside is crispy.