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I think the risk from long covid, and indeed covid-19 in general, is far greater than the risk of myocarditis. Plus, myocarditis can be treated.

The situation in France is so unfortunate. I'm happy that France has made such progress in vaccination, especially after all this loss of life it would be incomprehensible for me why the anti-vaccination movement is so strong.

That author is fooling himself by wishful make-belief. He reads a gibberish that looks like Turkic from the runestone because he wants it to be Turkic. The Möjbro stone, at the upper left, you can read Runic "SLAGINAZ" (written right-to-left), which is Proto-Germanic for 'beaten' (cognate with...

As I said before, the product is gibberish. Also the author of that link uses modern (Anatolian!) Turkish which doesn't make any sense. Even then it doesn't really make sense (for example, above it reads "gobek" = dog, it should be "köpek"). There are two major branches of the Turkic language...

This topic of the Old Turkic script being related with Nordic runes - or even Nordic runes are supposedly readable as Turkic - is an urban legend that refuses to die. First: - the Runes are the older writing system, descended from the Etruscan alphabet (or variants of the Etruscan alphabet used...

1) Why is the map horizontally flipped and turned by 90 degrees? 2) As the others have said (approximately): - only the north of Italy had a Celtic presence (you fixed that in the second map) - the northeast of Germany had no Celtic presence either (you fixed that in the second map). - In...

I'd like to make a few points: first, "Celts" is originally a linguistic concept. The Celtic language family is part of the Indo-European languages. If we associate the Beaker-Bell culture with the Celtic languages, you have to wonder what do we associate with the other Indo-European branches...

Two issues: First, in a very New York Times matter, the name "Höcke" does not actually rhyme with "Hook-ay": the ö is about the same sound as with English "learn", "bird" and "Germany". The e is about the same sound as "comma", "bitter". The AfD are not actually pro-Germany. Even their name...

Indo-Iranic languages have a much longer attestation, yes (if we include the loanwords in Mitanni, 1400 BC), but you should not equate that automatically with "older". We're talking about Late IE languages (where the so-called "pharyngeals") vanish with vowel-colouring qualities while in the...

I'm aware of this. I was under the impression that the wheel was invented essentially independently around the same time frame, i.e. the Late(st) Neolithic in Central Europe, the Pontic-Caspian steppe and Mesopotamia. The fact that the Sumerian word for 'wheel' (also borrowed into Akkadian)...

There's more than two words (two words for wheel, at that). You also have words for 'axle' and 'wagon'. Also, bear in mind that words cannot be subjected retroactively to past sound laws (because languages have no memories of past sound laws). When you look at the words for 'wheel' and 'horse'...

Mesopotamia, to my knowledge, didn't have wheels before the Uruk period. I might add that the Sumerian word for 'wheel', ḫu-bu-um, bears no relationship with the Indo-European words for wheel (*kwekwelos and *(H)rotheH)).

I for one think it is a very strong argument, because the words for 'horse' and 'wheel' are shifted according to the respective sound laws. If they were spread later, after (Late) PIE had already split up into the daughter branches, you would expect to see a clear sign of borrowing.

I have to say this: first, the idea that the Anatolian languages were the first branch of PIE to separate (or, conversely, that you have an ancestral split between Proto-Anatolian and a form of "Late" PIE) is a common ground between Kurganists and Anatolianists. I have also mentioned before, I'm...

I would like to point out that its not exactly overblown. If we were talking about Europe, I might agree with you, but you have to consider the bizarre proportions that the so-called "pro-life versus pro-choice" debate in the United States is taking. Against the backdrop of that, media interest...

I have to say, I do not get the obsession of Christian fundamentalists (and it is a form of Christian fundamentalism, let there be no doubt about it) with abortion, especially because there is zero basis in scripture. The bigotry involved here becomes also very apparent that the same people who...

The technique of digital unwrapping was used to unwrap a burned scroll from En-Gedi, at the Dead Sea, demonstrating that the scroll held a part of the bible, the book of Leviticus...

The language situation is far more complicated than that. You could say that the Swiss Germans are effectively bilingual: their everyday language is Swiss German (which is not per se mutually intelligible with Standard German, though Swiss German is to some degree mutually intelligible with the...

My apologies for abridging that earlier, but I cut it short because I felt it would have gone too far off topic when we're talking about the Austrian narrative. I'll agree with you however that all of those instances could have been reason enough for Britain and France to declare war on Germany...

History happened? First, Switzerland has not one official language but four (in addition to German, it has French, Italian and Romansh). For Austria, the story is decisively more complicated. Austria used to be part of the Holy Roman Empire (until the Napoleonic Wars, when the HRE was...