SEALang Library is a US Government supported project to study the languages of Southeast Asia.
On Mon-Khmer language: “For more than two millennia, through the rise and fall of the Dvaravati and Angkor empires, the Mon-Khmer languages were the lingua franca of Southeast Asia. They are as key to interpreting the region’s cultural, political, and [...]
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Southeast Asian Languages
April 28, 2012
Science – HeLa Cells
July 1, 2010
Today’s non-dhamma post is a 40 min interview of science journalist Rebecca Skloot, by Terry Gross, of NPR’s FRESH AIR program. Ms. Skloot researched the life of Henrietta Lacks, a woman who died of cancer and died in 1951. But part of her still lives on in the cancer cells called “HeLa”, that [...]
