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Did you ever wonder how the Mallorcans make that delicious dish, "destroyed eggs"? How a "cybernetic intellectual renaissance man" feels as he takes the stage? Or how Marc Bolan really died?



Come on a blindfold guided tour of the place Mallorcans just call la cuidad, the city, and learn the answers to all of these questions and more! Yes, it's the Palma Podcast (mono mp3 file, 42mins 33secs, 19.5 MB)!

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Date: 2007-01-31 05:39 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
The word polymath comes from the words poly meaning many and manthánein meaning to learn. Just because the word "Math" is in there does not denote any involvement of mathematics.

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Date: 2007-01-31 05:49 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Hey, I was expecting a link to Wikipedia, but you at least show more class.

My comment was not about etymology, but about intension.

There was a time when you couldn't be considered "learned" without knowledge of maths. But anyway, these days it seems to be enough to have an opinion to be considered thus, and hence if you have an opinion about a variety of things... Etc.

der.

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Date: 2007-01-31 06:06 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Your comment was about etymology.

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Date: 2007-01-31 06:08 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Or why would "polymath" be funnier than Renaissance man when the latter actually does have the connotation that the person labelled thus be a Leonardo type figure?

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Date: 2007-01-31 06:12 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
alright, that part was unnecessary rhetorical flourish. you agree with the main point then?

der.

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