Holiday reading!

It's a holiday here today, so you're getting some reading stuff from around the net which will hopefully amuse you:

Making a disease from a remedy - how Trotula gets misinterpreted in medicine papers.

Disability, fraudulent beggars and medieval surveillance.

Fictional languages get a real-world breakdown. This is a really fascinating video, and if you are at all interested in languages and pronounciation, I thoroughly recommend it.