[NEWS] Five JSTOR Daily links: ch'arki, pisco, X-rays, lavender scare, language (@jstor_daily)

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• JSTOR Daily examines ch'arki, an Andean food like jerky.


• JSTOR Daily reports on how Peru and Chile contest claims to being the origins of pisco.


• JSTOR Daily explores the X-ray craze of 1896, here.


• JSTOR Daily explores the "lavender scare" of the 1950s that saw dozens of queer men purged from the American government.


• JSTOR Daily looks at how linguists are using Urban Dictionary to study the evolution of language.