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urubu··on Pliny the Elder May Have Been Found 2,000 Years Later
Pliny the Elder was his uncle.
urubu··on Spheres
It's not a common word. Reading it as normal German you would understand it as "obviousness, plainness, evidentness" (from 'offenbar' = 'obvious, plain to see'; 'openable' would be 'öffenbar'). But Heideggerian can obviously be quite distinct from standard German usage, to put it mildly.
urubu··on Peeking into the architecture used for Google's Neural Machine Translation
This is a directory of available multilingual corpora:

http://opus.lingfil.uu.se/

urubu··on Esperanto: the language that never was
Listening to languages I'm vaguely familiar with - I also like the BBC in Persian and Hausa - seems to have become part of my evening routine (I work as a technical translator). I learned Esperanto on a whim in uni in the 80s but haven't used it actively ever since.
urubu··on Esperanto: the language that never was
China Radio International still has daily transmissions on shortwave. I listened to one yesterday night, as it happens.
urubu··on Mandela was right: the Foreign Language Effect
I think you mean Wittgenstein, not Goethe ("Die Grenzen meiner Sprache bedeuten die Grenzen meiner Welt" Tractatus logico-philosophicus 5.6).
urubu··on How You Can Be Creative – A Lesson from Pablo Picasso
Looks like someone has successfully reinvented Zwicky's morphological box.
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