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Windjammer cruises reborn? Star Clippers Sailing Tall Ship Cruises

This seems insightful: How in the hell did Donald Trump convince evangelicals he’s a God-fearing man? – Quora Need to validate.

The diverse way that languages convey emotion

• Many human languages have words for emotions such as “anger” and “fear,” yet it is not clear whether these emotions have similar meanings across languages, or why their meanings might vary. We estimate emotion semantics across a sample of 2474 spoken languages using “colexification”—a phenomenon in which languages name semantically related concepts with the same word. Analyses show significant variation in networks of emotion concept colexification, which is predicted by the geographic proximity of language families. We also find evidence of universal structure in emotion colexification networks, with all families differentiating emotions primarily on the basis of hedonic valence and physiological activation. Our findings contribute to debates about universality and diversity in how humans understand and experience emotion.

These people look interesting (Unbreaking). They are documenting the disintegration of USA norms(?) using a timeline of summaries among other things. Once I get the embedding mapping done, it would be a good thing to try to run through the system. One of their founding members wrote this: Landslide; a ghost story

• All this year, as I have chewed my way along the edges of this almost unfathomable problem, what happened in Valdez came to feel less like a metaphor and more like a model. That’s how I’ll work with it here. Not because the circumstances of megathrust earthquakes in fjords are literally the same as the societal problem of collective derangement, but because the model gives me new ways to take problem apart and see how the pieces interact.