Around the web (week of 9 December)

Reading

• Co-occurrence of linguistic and biological diversity in biodiversity hotspots and high biodiversity wilderness areas, by Gorenflo et al. in PNAS (2012)

  Languages in high biodiversity regions also often co-occur with one or more specific conservation priorities, here defined as endangered species and protected areas, marking particular localities important for maintaining both forms of diversity

• Who Was Ramanujan?, by Stephen Wolfram for his blog.

• Can Dirt Save the Earth?, by Moises Velasquez-Manoff for NY Times Magazine

• This ‘Equity’ picture is actually White Supremacy at work by Sippin the EquiTEA on Medium. A critique of the widely used “equity” diagram:

  Listening

• Good as Hell, by the incredible Lizzo. To belabor the goodness of this song, read In Praise Of ‘Good As Hell,’ The Song That Believes In You Even When You Don’t

• Is there a Jewish way of talking?, an episode of the entertaining Slate podcast Lexicon Valley