Friday procrastination: link love – toads, tweets, and travel tips
What Rebecca has been reading.
Why Republicans Shouldn’t “dance”
Jennifer Fisher looks at Tom DeLay’s appearance on “Dancing with the Stars”.
Ketchup – Podictionary Word of the Day
The podictionary word of the week is “ketchup”.
The Oddest and Dumbest English Spellings, Part 15, With a Note on Words and Things
Anatoly Liberman discusses the etymology of words with silent letters.
How We Look At Health Care
A post about health care from author Rosemarie Garland-Thomson.
Divide and Conquer? Splitting the Roles of Chair and CEO
Chris Mallin, author of Corporate Finance, blogs about companies splitting the role of Chair and CEO.
Top three questions about my interview on The Daily Show
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.
On the Balloon Side Show,
The Infotaining Media, and Representative Democracy
Elvin Lim weighs in on Balloon-Boy.
How Ferrets Identified a Virus
An excerpt from Viruses, Plagues, and History, showing how pigs, dogs, and ferrets helped identify influenza as a virus.
Redefining Death — Again
How do we define death?
Not a Chimp, Not Even Close
Jeremy Taylor on how “Ardi” proves chimps and humans are far less similar than we have been led to believe.
Friday procrastination: link love – blogging, bookcases, and boiled eggs
What Rebecca has been reading.
Jennifer Burns’s Goddess of the Market
An excerpt from Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right.
Monsters and Wild Things
Stephen Asma, author of On Monsters looks at Where the Wild Things Are.
Podictionary Interview – Philip Durkin
A special podictionary episode with Philip Durkin.
What Made the Crocodile Cry? …And other language questions
Susie Dent answers some of your language questions.