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PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. – More than 3,000 students from across California visited the Presidio of Monterey on May 13 for DLIFLC’s Language Day. Students, educators and other participants were treated to stage performances, classroom displays and ethnic cuisine, highlighting the cultures of the many foreign languages taught here.
Official Presidio of Monterey Web site
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PHOTO by Steven L. Shepard, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs.
PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. – More than 3,000 students from across California visited the Presidio of Monterey on May 13 for DLIFLC’s Language Day. Students, educators and other participants were treated to stage performances, classroom displays and ethnic cuisine, highlighting the cultures of the many foreign languages taught here.
Official Presidio of Monterey Web site
Official Presidio of Monterey Facebook
PHOTO by Steven L. Shepard, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs.
Taken from here, this is a map showing the areas in East Africa where the Swahili language is spoken, whether as a first or a second language.
PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. – More than 3,000 students from across California visited the Presidio of Monterey on May 13 for DLIFLC’s Language Day. Students, educators and other participants were treated to stage performances, classroom displays and ethnic cuisine, highlighting the cultures of the many foreign languages taught here.
Official Presidio of Monterey Web site
Official Presidio of Monterey Facebook
PHOTO by Steven L. Shepard, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs.
I photographed David Baker inside his lab at the Institute for Protein Design on January 21, 2026. The room carried a quiet intensity. Screens glowed with rotating molecular structures. Whiteboards were layered with equations, sketches, half erased ideas that had not yet settled into final form. People moved deliberately, speaking softly, as if the work itself required a certain respect. Baker seemed entirely at home in that atmosphere. This is not a place of reflection. It is a place of making.
There is nothing performative about him. He does not explain for the sake of explanation. His attention stays fixed on the problem in front of him, on what works and what fails, on structures that nearly hold together and ones that collapse under their own logic. Time here is measured in iterations, not hours. The goal is not to describe nature but to understand it well enough to build with it.
Proteins are the machinery of life. They act as enzymes, messengers, scaffolds, switches. What they do depends entirely on how they fold. A protein begins as a linear chain of amino acids, but almost instantly it twists and collapses into a precise three dimensional shape. That shape determines its function. For much of modern biology, this folding process was something scientists could only observe after the fact. Structures were solved experimentally, often years after a protein was identified. Predicting a protein’s shape from its sequence, or designing a brand new protein that would reliably fold into a chosen form, remained one of the field’s deepest challenges.
Baker approached the problem as a question of physics and computation rather than biological intuition. He treated protein folding as an energy landscape shaped by forces that could be modeled, sampled, and optimized. From that effort emerged Rosetta, a powerful and evolving computational framework that allowed researchers to predict how proteins fold and, eventually, to design new ones. Rosetta was never a single static program. It became a platform and a shared language for thinking about proteins at the level of atoms, forces, and probabilities.
The shift from prediction to design marked a turning point. With Rosetta, Baker and his collaborators showed that it was possible to begin with a desired shape or function and work backward to identify an amino acid sequence that would reliably fold into it. These were not small tweaks to existing biology. They were entirely new protein structures, forms that had never existed before. Biology began to look less like a catalog of what evolution happened to produce and more like a space that could be deliberately explored.
The impact of that shift is now visible across science and medicine. Designed enzymes can catalyze reactions that natural proteins never evolved to perform. Custom binding proteins can neutralize viruses, block disease pathways, or deliver drugs with remarkable specificity. During the COVID pandemic, protein design methods rooted in Rosetta were used to rapidly create novel binders to SARS-CoV-2, demonstrating a speed and flexibility that traditional biological approaches could not match. As machine learning systems like AlphaFold transformed structure prediction, Rosetta evolved alongside them, remaining central to the harder challenge of design. Not what nature made, but what could be made.
In 2024, Baker was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his foundational contributions to protein design. What made the recognition unusual was its timing. The prize did not mark a conclusion or a summation. It acknowledged a body of work that is still actively expanding. Baker did not win for something safely locked in the past. He was recognized while still deeply immersed in the problems that motivated the work in the first place.
The Institute for Protein Design reflects that forward looking mindset. It feels less like a traditional academic department and more like a workshop for the future of biology. Computation, wet lab experiments, and real world applications sit side by side. Ideas are tested quickly. Failures are expected. What matters is whether a design holds up when reality pushes back.
Baker himself is famously reluctant to be pulled away from this environment. Travel, ceremony, distraction of any kind feel secondary to the work. There is always another structure to test, another hypothesis to refine. Standing there with him, camera in hand, it was clear that the Nobel Prize had not changed the trajectory. If anything, it underscored how much remains unfinished.
Protein design is now moving from demonstration to infrastructure. Designed proteins are beginning to enter medicine, energy, materials, and manufacturing. They promise therapies that are more precise, industrial processes that are cleaner, and biological systems that are both powerful and biodegradable. In this vision, biology becomes a design discipline, guided by computation and constrained by physics rather than chance.
Baker measures progress not in accolades but in unanswered questions. The work continues because it must. The frontier is not behind him. It is very much still in front.
The Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center held their annual Language Day 2016 at the Presidio of Monterey, California, May 13 to promote and encourage cultural understanding and customs from around the world.
Approximately 5,000 people attended the event, which features cultural displays and activities as well as ethnic foods served by local international vendors on the Presidio’s Soldier Field every year.
(Photo by Amber K. Whittington)
A guide from the Quebec government on proper translation of microwave oven terminology. Published in 1987. Retrieved during recent winter cleaning at the translation department where I work.
Few things amuse and appeal as much as the abuse, misuse, mistranslation and outright mangling of the English language. Many newspapers run weekly features inviting members of the public to send in photographs of menus, health and safety warnings, road signs, adverts, headlines and personals columns - anything in which the language has gone egregiously, hilariously and, usually, unintentionally wrong.
Well, this sign is a candidate being a casualty of its own message!
Leica MP & 50mm Summilux
Kodak Ektachrome 100
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The Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center held their annual Language Day 2016 at the Presidio of Monterey, California, May 13 to promote and encourage cultural understanding and customs from around the world.
Approximately 5,000 people attended the event, which features cultural displays and activities as well as ethnic foods served by local international vendors on the Presidio’s Soldier Field every year.
(Photo by Amber K. Whittington)
Located in El Hussein Square, the Al-Azhar Mosque (the most blooming), established in 972 (361 H) in a porticoed style shortly after the founding of Cairo itself, was originally designed by the Fatimid general Jawhar El-Sequili (Gawhara Qunqubay, Gawhar al-Sakkaly) and built on the orders of Caliph Muezz Li-Din Allah. Located in the center of an area teaming with the most beautiful Islamic monuments from the 10th century, it was called "Al-Azhar" after Fatama al-Zahraa, daughter of the Prophet Mohamed (Peace and Prayers Be Upon Him). It imitated both the Amr Ibn El-As and Ibn Tulun mosques. The first Fatimid monument in Egypt, the Azhar was both a meeting place for Shi'a students and through the centuries, it has remained a focal point of the famous university which has grown up around it. It was under Yaqoub Ibn Cals that the mosque became a teaching institute. This is the oldest university in the world, where the first lecture was delivered in 975 AD. Today the university built around the Mosque is the most prestigious of Muslim schools, and its students are highly esteemed for their traditional training. While ten thousand students once studied here, today the university classes are conducted in adjacent buildings and the Mosque is reserved for prayer. In addition to the religious studies, modern schools of medicine, science and foreign languages have also been added.
18 JUNE 12
Two languages for the win. LOL.
Today was a rainy one. The clouds built up and then released in a great swell. I love the rain. Garbage said it best, "I'm only happy when it rains!" I ended up going out today to look for a new mattress. I've been complaining a lot of back pain and I find myself tossing and turning non stop and not ever getting a full solid good nights rest, so to the mattress shops I went.
It was soooo awkward having some random sales guy (by the way, I'm convinced they don't hire women to sell mattresses b/c I've yet to ever see one doing it) just standing over you while you lie down and wriggle around trying to get comfortable on something you plan on sleeping on for a long time. This sales guy just hovered. It was annoying. In my head I kept thinking, how can I adequately roll around on this thing with you just staring at me like you've just seen a monkey at the Deli serving sandwiches? I didn't find anything on the sales floor which was completely empty of any other life form, so as I was getting up to leave, he says, oh wait, lets check out the Bargain Basement. Now...I'd been staring at this...how shall I describe the glory that it was...this light up theater sign with two B's on it in between bed rollings around for quite some time. Apparently the BB meant Bargain basement. So we go through the flashing theater lights door and up..yes...up a ramp to the basement. Um, don't basements usually go down I said...he said, yeah, well, you know, this is just part of the advertisement. So up we go into the "basement" which should have been the attic and its like a whole other store, except one with creeper lighting, no air conditioning, and I couldn't even make this one up...alligator skulls, empty gas cans, and hanging dolls chained to the roof. Um..vaffanculo!....we then of course go to the furthest darkest creepiest section of the basement (attic) and find one mattress which actually felt pretty good, but others in my mattress hunting party suggested I not buy it b/c of the no return policy.
I decided right then and there without hesitation that there is some place worse than working at the DMV and thy name is the furniture store. Day after day spent with overweight indecisive housewives and their fussy husbands trying to decide on whether they need a bed with two inch risers or one or the men who try and haggle the bargain basement "attic" prices which are non-haggleable, or the kids who enter the store with their laissez faire parents who let them run wild in the store and then leave quickly once Jr. and Judas have broken a couple nightstands and popped the springs on a mattress with their superman antics. Oh gawd, if I ever end up selling furniture, make sure one of those alligator skulls falls from the ceiling and crushes me.
Store number 2. I found a mattress but its price did not find me. It was almost triple what we wanted to spend. Of course you are. Vaffanculo!
Store number 3: where are you? We drove round and round and couldn't find it. I had GPS, but some people would like to believe that they still know how to use a map in 2012. Couldn't wait to prove that one wrong could you? If we'd used GPS we would have made it but have it your way Navigator. Vaffanculo!
PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. – More than 3,000 students from across California visited the Presidio of Monterey on May 13 for DLIFLC’s Language Day. Students, educators and other participants were treated to stage performances, classroom displays and ethnic cuisine, highlighting the cultures of the many foreign languages taught here.
Official Presidio of Monterey Web site
Official Presidio of Monterey Facebook
PHOTO by Steven L. Shepard, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs.
The Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center held their annual Language Day 2016 at the Presidio of Monterey, California, May 13 to promote and encourage cultural understanding and customs from around the world.
Approximately 5,000 people attended the event, which features cultural displays and activities as well as ethnic foods served by local international vendors on the Presidio’s Soldier Field every year.
(Photo by Amber K. Whittington)
Symposium on Indigenous Languages at the University of Pennsylvania's Quechua program. October 2019.
PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. – More than 3,000 students from across California visited the Presidio of Monterey on May 13 for DLIFLC’s Language Day. Students, educators and other participants were treated to stage performances, classroom displays and ethnic cuisine, highlighting the cultures of the many foreign languages taught here.
Official Presidio of Monterey Web site
Official Presidio of Monterey Facebook
PHOTO by Steven L. Shepard, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs.
Author: Carpani, Giuseppe
Title: Josephi Carpani e Soc. Jesu Tragoediae sex : Lusitaniae, et Algarbiorum Regi Joanni V. dicatae. Juxta exemplar Romanum.
Date: 1746
Location & Publisher: [Stadtamhof] : Sumptibus Joannis Gastl, Pedeponti ; Monachii : Typis Mariae Magdalenae Riedlin, viduae,
Dimensions: 17 cm.
Language: Latin
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This image was photographed and uploaded as part of the Jesuit Libraries Provenance Project (Loyola University Chicago)
Pages from the Nepali Sign Language Dictionary by Patricia Ross.
Publisher: Welfare Society for the Hearing Impaired, School for the Deaf; 1st ed edition (1989)
203 pages
ASIN: B0007BL0D8
Name: Sierra Toomey
Class year: 2019
Trip title: Language Immersion in Italy
A picture depicting the statue of Romulus and Remus is highlighted while three police officers huddle in the background in Rome, Italy.
Soap and Sabun
Conformity of the Word “Soap”
(Sabun) in Different Languages
There are 54 languages in the world saying “soap” as “sabun”, including Taiwanese.
22 in European languages
18 in Asian languages
2 in Middle-Eastern languages
3 in African languages
6 in Austronesian languages
3 in other languages
Below table is the details of languages saying "sabun" instead of "soap".
PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, California -- The 2018 Language Day celebration was held by the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center at the Presidio of Monterey, May 11. Language Day is open to the public and attended by schools across the nation to promote an understanding of diverse customs and cultures from around the world. Approximately 6,000 people attended this annual event featuring cultural displays, activities and international ethnic cuisine served by local vendors.
Official Presidio of Monterey Web site
Official Presidio of Monterey Facebook
PHOTO by Steven L. Shepard, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs.
The Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center held their annual Language Day 2016 at the Presidio of Monterey, California, May 13 to promote and encourage cultural understanding and customs from around the world.
Approximately 5,000 people attended the event, which features cultural displays and activities as well as ethnic foods served by local international vendors on the Presidio’s Soldier Field every year.
(Photo by Amber K. Whittington)
Mark M. Orkin - Speaking Canadian English
An Informal Account of the English Language in Canada
David McKay, New York, 1970
Pubescent parade performers take a break after their event and compare male and female points of view. Cusco, Peru, SA
PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. – More than 3,000 students from across California visited the Presidio of Monterey on May 13 for DLIFLC’s Language Day. Students, educators and other participants were treated to stage performances, classroom displays and ethnic cuisine, highlighting the cultures of the many foreign languages taught here.
Official Presidio of Monterey Web site
Official Presidio of Monterey Facebook
PHOTO by Steven L. Shepard, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs.
The Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center held their annual Language Day 2016 at the Presidio of Monterey, California, May 13 to promote and encourage cultural understanding and customs from around the world.
Approximately 5,000 people attended the event, which features cultural displays and activities as well as ethnic foods served by local international vendors on the Presidio’s Soldier Field every year.
(Photo by Amber K. Whittington)
Body Language Instagram Editorial Shoot with Los Angeles Fashion Photography Team James Hickey & Tatiana Junqueira
We’re already halfway through 2016. Instagram is the fastest growing social network, and now it has become a favored platform for marketers to reach mobile millennials. ...
PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. – More than 3,000 students from across California visited the Presidio of Monterey on May 13 for DLIFLC’s Language Day. Students, educators and other participants were treated to stage performances, classroom displays and ethnic cuisine, highlighting the cultures of the many foreign languages taught here.
Official Presidio of Monterey Web site
Official Presidio of Monterey Facebook
PHOTO by Steven L. Shepard, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs.
A language is democracy in action. If you coin a word, you can use it, in your texting, love letters, PhD thesis, even in office memos.
Sure, there are some “dictatorships” in the language world, but they don’t work well. There are language academies policing what words can and cannot be used, prescribing native* words over those adopted from other languages, but people pay as much attention to them as teenagers to moms.
A language, like a relationship, works better when it grows organically, not straitjacketed by rules and conditions. Language and its speakers do what they want to do -- no one else need have a say in it.
So how do you go about coining a word? You can coin a completely made-up word or you can use existing components -- combining forms -- to assemble a new word.
What are combining forms? You can think of them as Lego (from Danish, leg: play + godt: well) bricks of language. As the term indicates, a combining form is a linguistic atom that occurs only in combination with some other form which could be a word, another combining form, or an affix (unlike a combining form, an affix can’t attach to another affix).
This week we’ve gathered these 10 combining forms and will feature five words made from them:
litho- (stone), aischro- (shameful or ugly), heno- (one), hypo- (under), gerat- (old age)
and
-phone (sound), -latreia (worship), -theism (belief in god), -nym (name), and -logy (study).
What words can you come up with and how would you define them? There 5x5 = 25 total possibilities. Share them below or email words@wordsmith.org.
Today's word is lithophone, which comes from Greek litho- (stone) + -phone (sound). If you have been thinking about starting a rock band, well, this is one way to go about it!
*The word “native” doesn’t mean much for a living language. All languages borrow from each other and that’s one of the ways they grow. The one that doesn’t is a dead language.
Vocab chart for week nineteen of Bennu's vocab tweets.
Words: before; infront of, who is in front of, Upper Egypt, bow; foreigner, oryx, antelope, gazelle, young.
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Photo by Hiro Chang, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs
The Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center opened its doors to the public on May 15 for its annual Language Day event.
The event showcased the cultures of the different departmental languages being taught here through dance, skits and fashion shows.
Exhibits were also presented throughout the school grounds with local Monterey ethnic vendors selling their local cuisines to the customers.
Nearly 2,000 high school students and teachers attended Language Day.