Categories used in this blog are listed in the right hand column. This page collates just the titles of all posts by those categories (sorted alphabetically under each heading). Some posts appear under more than one category. For a simple chronological list of posts, see “Contents.”

About (this blog)

• Concluding 2017, looking forward to 2018 December 31, 2017
• New blog February 20, 2008
• New categories & LinkedIn archive February 22, 2017
• New look July 29, 2018
• Return of Multidisciplinary Perspectives December 1, 2015
• Reviving this blog April 1, 2015

Agriculture/food

• “Lost Crops of Africa” March 7, 2008
• “The World of Soy” due out soon April 20, 2008
• An International Year of Millets? March 31, 2018
• Four millets: 1. Pearl millet, or bajri December 4, 2015
• Four millets: 2. Finger millet, or ragi December 7, 2015
• Four millets: 3. Foxtail millet, or xiaomi December 26, 2015
• Four millets: 4. Proso millet January 9, 2016
• Four millets: More grains & the “millet spectrum” January 16, 2016
• Four millets: Recognizing the differences December 3, 2015
• International Year of Artisanal Fisheries & Aquaculture, 2022 October 3, 2022
• International Year of Millets, 2023 May 31, 2019
• International Year of Plant Health, 2020+ May 31, 2021
• International Year of Pulses 2016 February 5, 2016
• International Year of the Potato February 28, 2008
• IYOM2023 & translation: “Multi-local” millets go global February 20, 2022
• IYOM2023 in French: Mils et/ou millets? January 22, 2022
• IYOM2023 in Hindi: A new term, in the plural February 7, 2022
• IYOM2023 in Russian, Arabic & Chinese: Specific terms &/or generic meanings? February 6, 2022
• IYOM2023 in Spanish: ¿Los mijos? January 30, 2022
• Seven International Years & two decades December 31, 2021
• Sumbala, and the shifting worlds of locust beans & soybeans in West Africa May 28, 2016
• Translation problems ahead of the International Year of Millets (IYOM2023)? January 21, 2022
• VOA features on Lost Crops January 7, 2009

Development

Considering that all societies are “developing” in one way or another.

• “Lost Crops of Africa” March 7, 2008
• “Security triangle” without the triangle February 16, 2017
• Assimilation – in the 21st century? December 1, 2018
• CFP: Language and Development 2015 May 19, 2015
• CFP: Language and Development 2017 May 22, 2017
• CFP: Language and the SDGs January 29, 2016
• CFP: Language, the SDGs, and Vulnerable Populations January 28, 2017
• Change & continuity in global Development July 14, 2019
• Concluding 2017, looking forward to 2018 December 31, 2017
• Inclusion, Mobility & Multilingual Education Conference, 24-26/9/2019 September 6, 2019
• International Anti-Corruption Day 2016 December 9, 2016
• International Decade of Languages? December 31, 2008
• International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development, 2022 October 31, 2022
• International Year of the Potato February 28, 2008
• Language and the SDGs, 21-22 April 2016 April 12, 2016
• Seven International Years & two decades December 31, 2021
• Symposium on multilingualism in international organizations & cooperation, 10-11 May 2018 April 7, 2018
• Visualizing language, development, education & ICT connections December 20, 2015
• VOA features on Lost Crops January 7, 2009

Education

• Inclusion, Mobility & Multilingual Education Conference, 24-26/9/2019 September 6, 2019
• International Decade of Languages? December 31, 2008
• International Mother Language Day 2017 & the Linguapax Prize February 21, 2017
• International Mother Language Day, 2016 February 21, 2016
• International Year of Moderation, 2019 March 31, 2019
• International Year of the Periodic Table, 2019 January 29, 2019
• Literacy Day double take September 8, 2016
• Two language museums in Washington February 20, 2017
• Visualizing language, development, education & ICT connections December 20, 2015
• What about the “Declaration of Linguistic Rights”? March 31, 2008
• What happened to the Year of Moderation? December 25, 2019

Habitat/community

• A hidden class of “bike-to-workers”? May 18, 2017
• Çatalhöyük & a line from Kōbō Abe February 22, 2017
• Settlements on Mars? Start in Earth’s deserts October 3, 2016
• Vertical forests in the Sahara? December 19, 2018

ICT

Information & communication technologies

• “Dangling this” drip torture, or the “poor man’s clickbait” June 23, 2018
• A chess game with 32 intelligent pieces? July 8, 2018
• After digitizing libraries, translating knowledge? July 31, 2017
• AI & the self-driving resume: 1. The future of the job market March 31, 2017
• AI & the self-driving resume: 2. The resume & the market April 2, 2017
• AI & the self-driving resume: 3. How AI might work for job seekers & recruiters April 9, 2017
• Can we localize entire libraries? July 9, 2008
• Economics of language and the “long tail” effect April 10, 2008
• Economics of language and the “long tail” effect – part 2 April 17, 2008
• International Decade of Languages? December 31, 2008
• Mass digitization and oral traditions July 26, 2008
• Paradigm shift on machine translation? June 30, 2008
• Reflecting on “Computing’s Final Frontier” February 26, 2008
• Visualizing language, development, education & ICT connections December 20, 2015
• WAWDT: FCC turning off low-income access to broadband? February 4, 2017

Language

• “Dangling this” drip torture, or the “poor man’s clickbait” June 23, 2018
• “MEI,” “MIEL,” or “MINEL” languages? November 30, 2019
• 2008 Linguapax Prize winner: Neville Alexander March 1, 2008
• 2009 Linguapax Prize winner: Katerina Te Heikoko Mataira February 21, 2009
• 2016 Linguapax Award to organizations in Australia & Canada February 22, 2016
• After digitizing libraries, translating knowledge? July 31, 2017
• Can we localize entire libraries? July 9, 2008
• CFP: Language and Development 2015 May 19, 2015
• CFP: Language and Development 2017 May 22, 2017
• CFP: Language and the SDGs January 29, 2016
• CFP: Language, the SDGs, and Vulnerable Populations January 28, 2017
• Change & continuity in global Development July 14, 2019
• Depth of language, limits of leaders December 29, 2018
• Economics of language and the “long tail” effect April 10, 2008
• Economics of language and the “long tail” effect – part 2 April 17, 2008
• Inclusion, Mobility & Multilingual Education Conference, 24-26/9/2019 September 6, 2019
• International Decade of Indigenous Languages! December 18, 2019
• International Decade of Indigenous Languages? August 31, 2019
• International Decade of Languages proposed October 25, 2009
• International Decade of Languages? December 31, 2008
• International Mother Language Day & International Year of Languages February 21, 2008
• International Mother Language Day 2009 concludes International Year of Langauges February 21, 2009
• International Mother Language Day 2017 & the Linguapax Prize February 21, 2017
• International Mother Language Day 2018 & the Linguapax Prize February 21, 2018
• International Mother Language Day, 2010 February 21, 2010
• International Mother Language Day, 2016 February 21, 2016
• International Year of Indigenous Languages, 2019 January 28, 2019
• IYOM2023 & translation: “Multi-local” millets go global February 20, 2022
• IYOM2023 in French: Mils et/ou millets? January 22, 2022
• IYOM2023 in Hindi: A new term, in the plural February 7, 2022
• IYOM2023 in Russian, Arabic & Chinese: Specific terms &/or generic meanings? February 6, 2022
• IYOM2023 in Spanish: ¿Los mijos? January 30, 2022
• Language and the SDGs, 21-22 April 2016 April 12, 2016
• Literacy Day double take September 8, 2016
• LUL’d awake November 25, 2019
• Mass digitization and oral traditions July 26, 2008
• Multiple languages & globalization: Two upcoming conferences June 11, 2016
• Opening of the National Museum of Language April 30, 2008
• Paradigm shift on machine translation? June 30, 2008
• Reflecting on “Computing’s Final Frontier” February 26, 2008
• Reimagining “language barrier” September 15, 2016
• Seven International Years & two decades December 31, 2021
• Symposium on multilingualism in international organizations & cooperation, 10-11 May 2018 April 7, 2018
• Terralingua “returns to its roots” (a CFP) February 1, 2016
• Terralingua’s Langscape, CFP extended July 25, 2016
• Translation problems ahead of the International Year of Millets (IYOM2023)? January 21, 2022
• Two language museums in Washington February 20, 2017
• Visualizing language, development, education & ICT connections December 20, 2015
• What about the “Declaration of Linguistic Rights”? March 31, 2008

NRM/environment

Natural resource management & the environment

• 2008 Year of the Frog February 29, 2008
• 2009 Linguapax Prize winner: Katerina Te Heikoko Mataira February 21, 2009
• A Vienna bicyclist – epilogue October 24, 2009
• Biofuels reconsidered August 30, 2016
• Earth Day 2017: Let’s stop industrial-scale burning of wood for energy April 22, 2017
• Earth Day 2018: One family’s small example April 22, 2018
• International Year of Artisanal Fisheries & Aquaculture, 2022 October 3, 2022
• International Year of Planet Earth February 24, 2008
• International Year of Plant Health, 2020+ May 31, 2021
• Mountainbiking in the Futa Jalon, 1986-87 (a Peace Corps retrospective) June 21, 2016
• Reflections of a Vienna bicyclist January 30, 2009
• Reframing “renewable energy” & “bioenergy” July 4, 2018
• Settlements on Mars? Start in Earth’s deserts October 3, 2016
• Sumbala, and the shifting worlds of locust beans & soybeans in West Africa May 28, 2016
• Terralingua “returns to its roots” (a CFP) February 1, 2016
• Terralingua’s Langscape, CFP extended July 25, 2016
• Thoughts about COP21 on a warm December day December 14, 2015
• Updated Renewables & Burnables Venn diagram June 27, 2019
• Vertical forests in the Sahara? December 19, 2018

Policy/planning

• “MEI,” “MIEL,” or “MINEL” languages? November 30, 2019
• “Security triangle” without the triangle February 16, 2017
• 2017, year of “Why are we doing this?” (WAWDT) February 3, 2017
• 2020: A Year of Bicycling Backwards December 31, 2020
• A hidden class of “bike-to-workers”? May 18, 2017
• An International Year of Millets? March 31, 2018
• Assimilation – in the 21st century? December 1, 2018
• Biofuels reconsidered August 30, 2016
• Concluding 2017, looking forward to 2018 December 31, 2017
• Earth Day 2017: Let’s stop industrial-scale burning of wood for energy April 22, 2017
• International Anti-Corruption Day 2016 December 9, 2016
• International Decade of Indigenous Languages! December 18, 2019
• International Decade of Languages proposed October 25, 2009
• International Year of Millets, 2023 May 31, 2019
• International Year of Moderation, 2019 March 31, 2019
• Late Ming China & the contemporary United States August 31, 2017
• LUL’d awake November 25, 2019
• Multiple languages & globalization: Two upcoming conferences June 11, 2016
• Reframing “renewable energy” & “bioenergy” July 4, 2018
• The 4 International Years of 2022 October 2, 2022
• Thoughts about COP21 on a warm December day December 14, 2015
• Vertical forests in the Sahara? December 19, 2018
• WAWDT: The “Muslim ban” breaks the “security triangle” February 12, 2017
• WAWDT: FCC turning off low-income access to broadband? February 4, 2017
• WAWDT: USDA, animal welfare, and responses February 18, 2017
• What happened to the Year of Moderation? December 25, 2019

Roads/streets

• 2020: A Year of Bicycling Backwards December 31, 2020
• A Vienna bicyclist – epilogue October 24, 2009
• Çatalhöyük & a line from Kōbō Abe February 22, 2017
• Reflections of a Vienna bicyclist January 30, 2009
• Zipper-merging & traffic as a system June 1, 2018

Personal

• “They” – a 1971 perspective on othering January 19, 2019
• A Vienna bicyclist – epilogue October 24, 2009
• Distant rumblings May 19, 2008
• Earth Day 2018: One family’s small example April 22, 2018
• Mountainbiking in the Futa Jalon, 1986-87 (a Peace Corps retrospective) June 21, 2016
• Reflections of a Vienna bicyclist January 30, 2009
• September 11, 2001 in Niamey September 11, 2016
• World Religion Day 2019: Protestant-Catholic relations in 2 American towns, in the mid-1800s January 20, 2019