King Rajendravarman II took the Khmer throne in 944 after a period of political instability, when two rival kings competed with each other. One, named Jayavarman
Many people have the impression that reading is cold and dry. Mark Twain said, “A classic is something everybody wants to have read, but no
Paris’s Notre Dame Cathedral is one of Europe’s most iconic buildings, and its creator planned it that way from the get go. Here are
Of all the Gothic cathedrals I visited, Notre Dame in Amiens was one of the most moving. I enjoyed it even more than Paris’s Notre Dame
Words we regularly use can greatly influence out consciousness and feelings. Paul Starobin, in After America; Narratives for the Next Global Age, wrote that the
Language is much more than what the cognitive psychologist and linguist Steven Pinker called words and rules. For example, aspects of Sanskrit helped encourage ancient
He’s young and chill, but he probably knows things about his culture’s heritage that AI systems don’t. The psychologist Jerome Bruner, in The Culture of
Westerners have often assumed that language is mainly about meanings of words and statements. But other cultures have assumed that language has other functions.
Common objects are not so common. Our perceptions, concepts, and experiences of objects are interlaced with a culture with limitless facets. I can immediately recognize