Reviving Coma Patients
Craig Panner helps us understand Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS).
August 2007
Friday procrastination: link love – Monopoly, Ozomatli, and Poet Laureates
The history of Monopoly. Congratulations to Charles Simic, the new Poet Laureate. A great look at The Book Depository. Ozomatli as Cultural Ambassadors? Books, Inq, celebrates the anniversary of Wallace Steven’s death.
Email as literature?
Is the Internet good for literature? On first glance, it seems so. Between internet forums, blogs, messages and emails, nearly everyone is writing, and reading, certainly more than we did just a few years ago, when the ubiquity of television and the telephone seemed to be making literacy obsolete.
Dumbing down the Declaration of Independence
Michael Ravitch looks at The Declaration of Independences.
Pouring New Wine Into Old Phrasal Bottles
Ben Zimmer looks at how writers and speakers of English often use an established phrase as a template for creative variations on a theme.
Scouting for Boys: An Excerpt
An excerpt from Robet Baden-Powell’s original 1908 ‘Scouting for Boys’
Molière Media
A podcast of James Monaco and Laurent Tirard talking about Moliere.
When Relevance Fails
Diane Ravitch looks at education.
An Embarrassment of Riches,
Or, Eena, Meena, Mina, Mo
Anatoly looks at the origins of words we use today.