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Sanskrit: Was it the Original Language? By Stephen Knapp          There has always been a controversy regarding whether Sanskrit was the original language, as some feel, or whether there was what has been called a Proto-Indo...

Laura Goode | Longreads | January 2017 | 23 minutes (5,818 words) In the last formal confession I remember having delivered, I sat face-to-face in the room with a priest: the confessional booth and screen, while useful for dramatic staging in mob cinema...

As developers for tablets and smartphones we like to keep abreast of the latest mobile technology developments . This is a daily digest of mobile development and related technology news gathered from the BBC, the New York Times, New Scientist and the...

Sarah Perry is a contributing editor of Ribbonfarm. A cognitive phenomenon that can happen to you (if you are unlucky, perhaps) is known as depersonalization or derealization. It is a mild relative of the symptom recognized in psychology as disassociation...

By Achille Mbembe Throughout the second half of the twentieth century, Congolese rumba and its offshoots exercised an intimate power over the African imaginary.  The sounds, rhythms and ethnic dances of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Congo-Brazzaville...