Friday procrastination: link love – toads, tweets, and travel tips
What Rebecca has been reading.
What Rebecca has been reading.
Jennifer Fisher looks at Tom DeLay’s appearance on “Dancing with the Stars”.
The podictionary word of the week is “ketchup”.
Anatoly Liberman discusses the etymology of words with silent letters.
A post about health care from author Rosemarie Garland-Thomson.
Chris Mallin, author of Corporate Finance, blogs about companies splitting the role of Chair and CEO.
Last week Jennifer Burns, author of Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right, appeared on The Daily Show. Below you can watch her interview with Jon Stewart. Then scroll down and read the top three questions everyone has been asking her since her appearance.
Elvin Lim weighs in on Balloon-Boy.
An excerpt from Viruses, Plagues, and History, showing how pigs, dogs, and ferrets helped identify influenza as a virus.
How do we define death?
Jeremy Taylor on how “Ardi” proves chimps and humans are far less similar than we have been led to believe.
What Rebecca has been reading.
An excerpt from Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right.
Stephen Asma, author of On Monsters looks at Where the Wild Things Are.
A special podictionary episode with Philip Durkin.
Susie Dent answers some of your language questions.