Archive for February, 2008

Friday Procrastination: Link Love

What Kirsty has been reading

Garner’s Usage Tip of the Day: Insipient v. Incipient

Garner teaches us how to correctly use insipient and incipient.

Organlegging: Hold Onto Your Heart

Jeff Prucher guest blogs for Ben Zimmer

Everybody’s Happy Now? Prozac and Happiness

An extract on Prozac, from Happiness by Daniel Nettle

Monthly Gleanings

Anatoly responds to comments on spelling reform.

Misfortunes rarely come singly: An excerpt from Scott’s Journals

An excerpt from Scott’s Journals to mark International Polar Year

Hinche, Haiti

Ben Keene looks at Hinche, Haiti.

Early Ideas on No-thing:
An Excerpt From The Void

A look into the Void.

What Does Your Credit Limit Say About You?

An excerpt from Going Broke.

How Not To Go Broke

Stuart Vyse is Professor of Psychology at Connecticut College, in New London. In his new book, Going Broke: Why Americans Can’t Hold On To Their Money, he offers a unique psychological perspective on the financial behavior of the many Americans today who find they cannot make ends meet, illuminating the causes of our wildly […]

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