Interesting Links for 14-11-2023

[andrewducker]

1. Scientists perplexed to find each nostril works separately to sense world

(tags:smell noses )

2. If the UK government wants parents to work then wraparound care needs to be fixed

(tags:parents work childcare uk )

3. Nearly Everyone With Mild Cognitive Impairment Goes Undiagnosed

(tags:brains neuroscience fail )

4. 'Coyote vs. Acme' Shelved by Warner Bros, Taking $30M Tax Writeoff

(tags:movies business OhForFucksSake )

5. US election results show rights still bewilderingly popular

(tags:rights women USA politics funny )

6. Dutch elections: is a new version of PR on the way?

(tags:Netherlands proportional_representation )

7. When Israel-Palestine Peace Was Within Reach

(tags:Israel Palestine history )

8. What words were added to the dictionary the year you were born? (Gaia, Bipolar Disorder, and Woke for me)

(tags:words history dictionary )

9. What's Biden's record on trans rights?

(tags:transgender politics USA democrats )

10. "I've Been To Over 20 Homeschool Conferences. The Things I've Witnessed At Them Shocked Me."

(tags:school Education children politics usa )

Comments

[mountainkiss]

Intrigued that “woke” is that old.

[wildeabandon]

I had the opposite reaction. Presumably it evolved from dropping the 'a' from awoke at some point, but I would have guessed centuries ago rather than decades.

[mountainkiss]

Ah, sorry, not clear. In its original form I think it’s Anglo-Saxon. I was assuming - perhaps entirely wrongly - that this meant with the sense that it has now.

[andrewducker]

In the modern sense, first recorded usage was in 1938.

But it was AAVE, and didn't leave black circles and hit the mainstream until decades later as far as I can see

[mountainkiss]

Thank you!

[andrewducker]

See this https://www.npr.org/2023/07/19/1188543449/what-does-the-word-woke-really-mean-and-where-does-it-come-from

But it was clearly in use before then to some extent, as it sounds like he expected the usage to be understood.

Edit: the Wikipedia article section on origins is also fascinating:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woke?wprov=sfla1

[andrewducker]

In the sense of "past tense of wake" I assume it does go back centuries.

In the sense of "be aware of injustice" it seems to date back to 1938.

[wildeabandon]

Ah, that makes more sense, thank you. I am, obviously, familiar with the "aware of injustice" sense, but it's not the one that comes to mind when I hear the word out of context, so it didn't occur to me.