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David Michaels is the author of Doubt is Their Product: How Industry’s Assault on Science Threatens Your Health which explains how many of the scientists who spun science for tobacco have become practitioners in the lucrative world of product defense. Whatever the story- global warming, toxic chemicals, sugar and obesity, secondhand smoke- these scientists generate […]
What Rebecca has been reading.
Author Elliott J. Gorn looks at John Dillinger films.
The podictionary word of the week is “bus”.
Some rain-related quotes from a rain-soaked Oxford.
A look at Gypsy Rose Lee.
Probably no other ethnic group has been vilified with so much linguistic ingenuity as the Jews. For the moment I will leave out of account Kike and Smouch and say what little I can about Sheeny, a word first recorded in English in 1824 (so the OED).
An excerpt from the late Professor Henry Chadwick’s recently-discovered biography of Augustine of Hippo.
Douglas Phillips answers the question: Can I legally make my PC think it’s a Mac?
A look at Michael Steinberg’s love of music in his own words.
Elvin Lim looks at Obama’s actions to support his health care plan.
It’s impossible to expect authors to absorb all of the 1000-page ‘AMA Manual of Style’; they’re just trying to get published, and it’s our job to help them. Today, we discuss three of the top-ten most frequent mistakes, including punctuation and style, ‘errors of grandiosity’ and wacky references.
What Cassie has been reading this week.
An excerpt from The Constitution in 2020.
The podictionary word of the week is “mumbo-jumbo”.
Anatoly Liberman explores various cultural forms and meanings of the term “scalawag.”