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Ancient Word of the Day: Siamang

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Endangered siamangs are the largest type of the gibbon family. They have distinctive black coats and communicate using a complex system of booming calls. They have gorgeous throat sacks that swell up as they sing together. Like other gibbons they form gregarious and close-knit family groups. They face a major existential threat from palm oil deforestation and illegal animal trafficking that occurs as a result of this deforestation.

Did you know name of one of the most vocal gibbons of the Bornean jungle ‘Siamang’ originates from several indigenous languages in the Central Aslian group in SE Asia?

Siamang: n.ultimate originof the wordʔamang(where theʔrepresents a glottal stop), is from several indigenous languages of the Central Aslian group.

When speakers of Malay borrowed the wordʔamang, they added the personal articlesi. Similar to an honorific like “mister”,sigenerally applies only to humans, or to animals…

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updated Review of a Library Book Worth Buying: Separate and Unequal, by S. Gillon

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

        Project Do Better strongly urges the supporting of our library systems, which is where I discovered this book, but some books are also worth buying as references. Separate and Unequal: The Kerner Commission and the Unraveling of American Liberalism, by Steven M. Gillon, is one of them.

     How sad that the contents and conclusions of this report are still relevant, and still ignored, today, 50 years after it was released in response to the riots in Newark and Detroit of the “long hot” summer of 1967. I found this book after seeing Dr. King’s response to the question, during the Memphis garbage workers’ strike, of what it would take to prevent or call off his Poor People’s March on Washington: the answer was to implement the recommendations in this report.

     The report was commissioned to find out what caused…

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