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    Eponyms? Check! Latin! Check! Roman emperors? Check! Scythian monks? Check! Holocene Era? Check! This week's has it all!

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    6 hours ago

    Hear our Doing Time eps: ．More coming!

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    10 hours ago
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    Finally! I've been waiting for this since you promised me more monologues, way back on the nones of Mercedonius!

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    11 hours ago
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    Oh yeah, and when we're feeling like brevity, we use "ka" kiloannum. That makes this year -0.067 ka. Bad Latin, good geology.

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    15 hours ago

    This month, all the shows are making an episode interpreting the theme . Here’s mine:

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    15 hours ago
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    Those serious French names were mocked as "Wheezy, Sneezy, Freezy; Slippy, Drippy, Nippy; Showery, Flowery, Bowery; Wheaty, Heaty, Sweety".

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    Although I could go for Anno Diocletiani. Or the French Revolutionary Calendar! We could be enjoying Prairial.

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    Jun 4
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    Because everything I do (pretty much) is dated with radiocarbon. This year is -67 cal. BP 😎

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    Jun 4
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    "Present" in this context is 1950 CE, just before atmospheric nuclear bomb testing spiked the amount of radiocarbon in the atmosphere.

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    Jun 4

    Emiliani is a giant in paleo, but as a Holocene paleoclimatogist, I use "calibrated years before present" or "cal. BP"

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    Jun 4
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    I have never anti-climaxed that fast before. Thanks!

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  12. Jun 4

    The countdown begins to my episode for the theme…and also ends, because the episode is OUT:

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    Jun 4

    On , the host said Sanskrit "is what you’re probably used to using" to a 12-year-old girl from Fresno. What's Sanskrit for "fuck you"?

    A CNN host assumed an Indian American spelling bee champion could read Sanskrit
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    Jun 2

    'The Cunt Cheerleaders' (1970), students of Judy Chicago's Feminist Art program, CA Uni, Fresno

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    Jun 3

    OMFG, our new cohort is no.2 in US charts! Subscribe to get it to no.1!

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    Jun 3

    have you ever thrown up from reading something
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    Thanks for the shoutout in , !

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    Jun 2

    Check out episode "Joins" for a language discussion of trans*/NB genital names -

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    Jun 2

    Excellent shaming from today

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    Jun 1

    Our network-wide Do㏌g Time series beg㏌s today! Preⅵew all the eps，dropp㏌g thru 6/14，㏌ honor of 's debut!

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