Jacob Hacker and Teresa Ghilarducci:
An Email Exchange on Retirement
Part Three
Part three of Hacker and Ghilarducci’s exchange.
An Affair With Petrichor
Noa Wheeler responds to Ammon Shea’s column on Petrichor.
Richard Dawkins: Podcast
The first of a series of podcasts with Richard Dawkins.
Kettle – Podictionary Word of the Day
A look at the word “kettle”.
Etymology, Serendipity, and Good Luck
Anatoly gives a candid take on etymology.
Jacob Hacker and Teresa Ghilarducci:
An Email Exchange on Retirement
Part Two
An email exchange about retirement.
Arizona Strip
Find out what Ben’s Place of the Week is….
Jacob Hacker and Teresa Ghilarducci:
An Email Exchange on Retirement
An exchange about how to fix retirement in America.
The Limitations of Psychiatric Drugs: An Excerpt
Joel Paris, MD, is a Professor in the McGill University Department o Psychiatry, and is Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry. His new book, Prescriptions for The Mind: A Critical View of Contemporary Psychiatry provides a “state-of-the-field” assessment focusing on the diverging roles of psychopharmacology and psychotherapy in contemporary practice. In the excerpt below […]
BEA Dispatch
Purdy, Director of Publicity, is in LA this weekend at Book Expo America. He will be reporting from the action for those of us left in NYC. Live from the convention floor of BEA in LA. For those not in the know BEA stands for Book Expo America, the largest convention of publishers, media, bookstore […]
Friday procrastination: link love – calories, creativity and cartoons
What Rebecca has been reading.
Talking about girls playing sports
Here’s a quiz: Is it worse for a girl to tear her ACL playing soccer or for a boy to get multiple concussions playing football? Or what about a 9-year-old girl driving a go-cart head-on into a concrete wall, smacking her body into the steering column, hitting her head on pavement and – oops – having her coat catch fire? Is that the worst?
Buckle up your mirdle! Euphemisms from heck
Mark Peters looks at euphemisms.
Waiting for Petrichor
Ammon Shea, an expert dictionary reader, reflects on rain.
Hypochondriac – Podictionary Word of the Day
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Last Things: Emily Brontë’s Poems
An excerpt from ‘Last Things: Emily Brontë’s Poetry’ by Janet Gezari.