Friday procrastination: link love – Peru, prisoners, and ‘Prison Idol’
What Kirsty has been reading
February 2008
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?
It’s a wonderful feeling. You apply for your first MasterCard, hoping to be accepted. Finally it arrives in the mail, and you feel like a million bucks. It’s shiny and new, and it comes with a letter that tells you your credit limit. In most cases, this happy event occurs when you are quite young.
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 self-destructive […]
Du Bois and Garvey Meet: No Blood Is Shed!
Happy Birthday W. E. B. Du Bois.
Friday procrastination: link love – college, conclusions, and curiosity
What Rebecca has been reading.
This Day in History: George Washington Was Born
Mark McNeilly helps us celebrate Washington’s birthday.
Reading the OED: An Interview with Ammon Shea
John McGrath the genius behind Wordie.org fills in for Ben Zimmer.
A Literary Quiz
John Mullan, author of How Novels Work, poses some literary brainteasers.
An Etymologist Looks at Puck and is Not Afraid
Anatoly turns puckish.