February 2008
January 2008
Find the Dax →
An experiment at the Cognition and Language Laboratory
“The relationship began to change when Mr. Obama began musing aloud about a...”
– Oh snap!
“Although at this point you begin to wonder if his op-ed wasn’t meant to be...”
– The worst op-ed ever written? (Original Op-Ed at NYT)
“Pamela A. Martin, an assistant professor of geophysics at the University of...”
– Rethinking the Meat-Guzzler
“Research is under way to cool outdoor spaces naturally to make strolling...”
– Building a clone of Lyon in Dubai
“Sarkozy has opened the curtains on a country which was happily eating cheese and...”
– More on Sarkozy + Bruni (who apparently is also pregnant now).
“Every foreigner should be made to play”
– Polish immigrant Zbigniew Wieckowski, on playing Scrabble
“Questioning the Quran “is like telling a Christian that Jesus was...”
– The Lost Archive of ancient Quranic manuscripts (WSJ).
“If I was a man I would say France is my wife and Iran is my mother. My mother, I...”
– Marjane Satrapi
“The image of Jerry Cruncher and his accomplices as contemplative men of leisure...”
– A hilarious (or maybe I should say ‘delicious’) endnote in my copy of A Tale of Two Cities
“Bizarrely, soon after Sterne died, his body was stolen by grave robbers, taken...”
“The highly unequal, competitive, materialistic and individualistic cultures of...”
– Madeleine Bunting, reviewing Oliver James’s The Selfish Capitalist: The Origins of Affluenza
“Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to...”
– Walter Chrysler
“There never was a coherent tradition of ‘modernism’, and I have long...”
– John Wilkins, Is postmodernism retreating?
