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A thread dedicated to the use and preservation of Ble, the extremely economical (if not equally comprehensible) language that Nancy Kangas unveiled in the November/December 2003 issue of Muse.

Several dialects of Ble appeared in Part 1, and no doubt many others lie ahead.

Threadyay? (How do you like the new thread?)

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It’s at www.musemagkids.com. Check it out!

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Editor Elizabeth Preston writes:

Could you make one more announcement on the MuseBlog about the “Muserology” (readers’) page? We need to have one more in, for November/December, before the first one gets published (September). I only got a few submissions earlier, and then they stopped coming. But various bloggers were talking about ideas they had for articles, which they never sent in. So…they have another chance! (Also, if someone sent something and didn’t get a response, they can send it again–I think some things got unnecessarily deleted from the Muse email.)

He may no longer be writing for Muse, but you can still read his “Mathematical Tourist” columns on the website of his now-employer, the Mathematical Association of America.

As you may know, the Muse Fan Page (MuseBlog’s parent site) keeps a list of contents of every issue of Muse. Well, most issues, anyway: we’ve fallen down on the job since April 2007.

This is an area in which MBers can be of inestimable assistance. (Translation: HELP!!!) Please get out your back issues, record what’s in them, and post the results here. We’ll most gratefully add them to the list.

Thanks,

The Administrators

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Editor Elizabeth Preston sent us this announcement:

MUSE wants YOU! Well, we want your stories, anyway. Do you have something unique to share? Have you traveled with a circus? Are you the last known speaker of an indigenous language? Maybe you always wanted to write a Math Page about your original geometry research. We want to hear your voices. Starting in September, everyone else will hear you, too. Send us an email (no attachments, please).

Here’s what Elizabeth says about the new section:

Starting in the September issue, we’re including a new column called the “Reader’s Report.” The idea arose because one girl sent us a series of well-written emails about a bird-rescue experience she’d had, saying we should do an article about it. And we thought, why not have what she sent us BE the article? So she’ll be the first one. The idea is a one- or two-page regular feature, written by a reader and laid out/illustrated like any other article, about an experience or viewpoint unique to that person (i.e., not “This is how I feel about gun control” or “My report on rocket ships”). I’m hoping the kids get excited about it and send lots of submissions. But we need to get submissions coming in before it’s announced in the September issue.

[The magazine’s e-mail address is muse@caruspub.com.]

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Good news: The online store Amazon.com has just announced that Muse is its top-ranked magazine as judged by readers’ reviews. You can read the reviews yourself by clicking here and can even post your own, if you haven’t already.

Muse‘s editors need to talk with you about your Q&A question. Please e-mail them at muse@caruspub.com .

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Muse‘s very own language, which Nak unleashed on the world in the November/December 2003 issue.

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