Friday Procrastination: Link Love
Filed in A-Featured & Blogs & UK | February 29, 2008
What Kirsty has been reading
Archive for February, 2008
Garner’s Usage Tip of the Day: Insipient v. Incipient
Filed in A-Featured & Dictionaries & Lexicography | February 28, 2008
Garner teaches us how to correctly use insipient and incipient.
Organlegging: Hold Onto Your Heart
Filed in A-Featured & Dictionaries & From A To Zimmer & Lexicography & Prose | February 28, 2008
Jeff Prucher guest blogs for Ben Zimmer
Everybody’s Happy Now? Prozac and Happiness
Filed in A-Editor's Picks & A-Featured & Current Events & Psychology & Science & UK | February 28, 2008
An extract on Prozac, from Happiness by Daniel Nettle
Monthly Gleanings
Filed in A-Featured & Lexicography & Oxford Etymologist | February 27, 2008
Anatoly responds to comments on spelling reform.
Misfortunes rarely come singly: An excerpt from Scott’s Journals
Filed in A-Featured & Biography & Current Events & Literature & UK | February 27, 2008
An excerpt from Scott’s Journals to mark International Polar Year
Hinche, Haiti
Filed in A-Featured & Ben's Place of the Week & Geography & Serial Blogging | February 26, 2008
Ben Keene looks at Hinche, Haiti.
Early Ideas on No-thing:
An Excerpt From The Void
Filed in A-Featured & Philosophy & Science | February 26, 2008
A look into the Void.
What Does Your Credit Limit Say About You?
Filed in A-Featured & Economics & Health & Medical Mondays & Psychology | February 25, 2008
An excerpt from Going Broke.
How Not To Go Broke
Filed in A-Editor's Picks & A-Featured & Economics & Health & Medical Mondays | February 25, 2008
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 [...]
