Drinking Up Eisel, Or,
the Oddest English Spellings (Part 9)
Anatoly looks at weird spellings.
August 2007
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Lomonosov Ridge, Arctic Ocean
Ben’s Place of the Week is Lomonosov Ridge.
The Rise and Fall of the First Internet
Donald Ritchie looks at the telegraph.
Fever on the Brain
A look at fevers with some help from Plum and Posner.
Persistent Drooling
Dysmorphology is the study of congenital malformations, in this excerpt we look at drooling.
The Bedside Dysmorphologist
William Reardon, author of The Bedside Dysmorphologist: Classic Clinical Signs in Human Malformation Syndromes and their Diagnostic Significance looks at the possible genetic ramifications of deep-set eyes.
Friday procrastination: link love – books, blogs, and billboards
Happy Friday to all! It’s a rainy day out there so I suggest curling up with your laptop and exploring the links below. Get clicking! Leonard Cohen on how to “speak” poetry. The most ingenious billboard in the world. Are you a good citizen? On writing too well for the internet. Did the author […]
Park Guell
I spent one of the best days of my life in Park Guell in Barcelona. It was the end of a long trip and my companion and I were tired. We came to the park from the back, riding a series of escalators up to the park’s highest point, before wandering slowly towards the largest bench I have ever seen.
Phrasal Patterns 2: Electric Boogaloo
Ben Zimmer’s follows up on last week’s post, Pouring New Wine Into Old Phrasal Bottles.
The Inaugural Very Short Introductions Column: Atheism
Q&A with Julian Baggini, author of Atheism: A Very Short Introduction
PowerPoint for Martians?
Stephen Kosslyn provides some PowerPoint tips.
Do it Real Quick,
Or The Death of the Adverb
Anatoly Liberman looks at the death of the adverb.
Meteor Crater, Arizona
Ben’s Place of the Week is Meteor Crater, Arizona.
Oxford World’s Classics Book Club: On Relaxing With Huck
I feel pretty sheepish admitting this but it took me a while this month to open The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. I assumed that since I had read it before, the book would not hold the same magic for me. I was wrong. I spent a nice portion of last weekend relaxing in a hammock […]
Consciousness
An excerpt from Plum and Posner’s Diagnosis of Stupor and Coma.