February 2008
January 2008
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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?