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Category Archives: Estonia
Estonian and Indian Milk Lovers Share a Common Ancestor
Researchers have found that the Estonians and Indians who can digest lactose share a common ancestor that walked the Earth about 7500 years ago. The study was published in the “Molecular Biology and Evolution” journal. Continue reading
Posted in Estonia, Natural and exact sciences, Research
Tagged Estonians, gene mutation, India, Indians, lactose, lactose tolerance, milk, mutation 13910T
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Why “Searching for My Roots” Also Means “Working on My Fluency”
Virve Vihman, adviser to the UT Rector on internationalisation, discusses the issues of language and identity through her own story of growing up as an Estonian-American in California. Continue reading
Posted in Estonia, General, Humanities, Research
Tagged Estonia, Estonian-American, identity, language and identity, symposium
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What Our Facebook Community Likes
This is an overview of the University of Tartu’s Facebook page’s fans, including demographic data and the list of Facebook pages that UT fans like. The data was sampled on 10 October, 2011. Continue reading
Posted in Estonia, General, Tartu
Tagged Facebook, Facebook community, Facebook pages, user demographics
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GO SOUTH, Go Fun!
Gabriela Küsters is an Erasmus student from the University of Applied Sciences in Holland. Gabriela also works as a website reporter at her home university and studies journalism and newswriting at the London School of Journalism. Study abroad is perhaps … Continue reading
Posted in Estonia, Events, Student life, Tartu
Tagged ESN, Estonia, go south trip, Southern Estonia, student trip
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A Year in Tartu
Francesco Orsi is a postdoctoral researcher at the UT Department of Philosophy. Today, on his birthday, Francesco shares his thoughts on the first year spent in Tartu. Continue reading
Posted in Estonia, General, Tartu
Tagged experience abroad, postdoc, researcher life, Tartu, year abroad, year in Estonia
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Podcast: Semiotics – Lingering or Thriving?
Listen to what Boris Uspenski, a member of Tartu-Moscow Semiotic School, Eero Tarasti, the President of the International Association for Semiotic Studies, Winfried Nöth, Professor of Linguistics and Semiotics at the University of Kassel, and Marcel Danesi, Editor-in-Chief of Semiotica, a major academic journal covering semiotics, think about the past, the present and the future of semiotics. Continue reading
Posted in Estonia, Humanities, Research, Tartu
Tagged Moscow-Tartu School, podcast, semiotics, summer school of semiotics, Tartu-Moscow School, theory of signs
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Estonia Considered A Loose Country
Estonia, together with the Ukraine, Hungary and Israel are cultures that may be considered quite loose in terms of socially accepted behaviours and tolerance, shows a study in the Science magazine comparing 33 nations. Continue reading
Posted in Estonia, Research, Social sciences
Tagged behaviour, cross-cultural psychology, culture, culture studies, Estonia, loose cultures, social psychology, tight cultures
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