False Memoir of Holocaust Is Canceled
This is a great story to read for all the people who point to fakery in Wikipedia, as if the world of print were sacrosanct...
One thing I wonder is why people are not willing simply to write fiction for its own sake, and call it that, rather than making other kinds of claims. Is this related to the popularity (baffling to me) of reality TV shows? I wonder.
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Monday, November 3, 2008
Councils ban 'elitist' and 'discriminatory' Latin phrases - Telegraph
SERIOUSLY SCARY:
Councils ban 'elitist' and 'discriminatory' Latin phrases - Telegraph: "Bournemouth Council has listed 19 terms it no longer considers acceptable for use.
This includes bona fide, eg (exempli gratia), prima facie, ad lib or ad libitum, etc or et cetera, ie or id est, inter alia, NB or nota bene, per, per se, pro rata, quid pro quo, vis-a-vis, vice versa and even via."
Councils ban 'elitist' and 'discriminatory' Latin phrases - Telegraph: "Bournemouth Council has listed 19 terms it no longer considers acceptable for use.
This includes bona fide, eg (exempli gratia), prima facie, ad lib or ad libitum, etc or et cetera, ie or id est, inter alia, NB or nota bene, per, per se, pro rata, quid pro quo, vis-a-vis, vice versa and even via."
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Scientist at Work - James W. Pennebaker - Psychologist James Pennebaker Counts, and Analyzes, Words - Biography - NYTimes.com
Scientist at Work - James W. Pennebaker - Psychologist James Pennebaker Counts, and Analyzes, Words
FASCINATING ARTICLE IN NEW YORK TIMES
"Health improvements were also seen among people whose use of causal words — because, cause, effect — increased. Simply ruminating about an experience without trying to understand the causes is less likely to lead to psychological growth, he explained; the subjects who used causal words “were changing the way they were thinking about things.”"
FASCINATING ARTICLE IN NEW YORK TIMES
"Health improvements were also seen among people whose use of causal words — because, cause, effect — increased. Simply ruminating about an experience without trying to understand the causes is less likely to lead to psychological growth, he explained; the subjects who used causal words “were changing the way they were thinking about things.”"
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Edupunk - more ponytails than punk
Edupunk - more ponytails than punk:
This post by Donald Clark expresses very nicely just why the whole edupunk thing seems to me incredibly silly. Here's an excerpt:
"I’m all for punking up conference presentations and learning experiences. But when grey-haired teachers take on these terms, they’d better look at themselves first. This so-called punky attitude is coming from well paid teachers and academics, in the comfortable context of largely tired old institutions. If they want to peddle punk then do what punks did – free themselves from the cosiness of the establishment."
This post by Donald Clark expresses very nicely just why the whole edupunk thing seems to me incredibly silly. Here's an excerpt:
"I’m all for punking up conference presentations and learning experiences. But when grey-haired teachers take on these terms, they’d better look at themselves first. This so-called punky attitude is coming from well paid teachers and academics, in the comfortable context of largely tired old institutions. If they want to peddle punk then do what punks did – free themselves from the cosiness of the establishment."
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Op-Ed Columnist - Kiplin’ vs. Palin - Editorial - NYTimes.com
Kiplin’ vs. Palin - NYTimes: One of the best editorials I have read in the New York Times in a LONG time.
"A friend wrote suggesting I take a look at Rudyard Kipling’s poem, “The Gods of the Copybook Headings,” in the light of current events. Written in 1919, when Kipling was 53, in an England drained by the Great War, which had taken the life of his teenage son, the poem makes sobering reading."
For excerpts from the poem, read the article. For the full poem, go here to Kipling.org.
"A friend wrote suggesting I take a look at Rudyard Kipling’s poem, “The Gods of the Copybook Headings,” in the light of current events. Written in 1919, when Kipling was 53, in an England drained by the Great War, which had taken the life of his teenage son, the poem makes sobering reading."
For excerpts from the poem, read the article. For the full poem, go here to Kipling.org.
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