On Lesch-Nyhan Disease
A look at free will and rare diseases.
A look at free will and rare diseases.
Philip Jenkins and Miranda Hassett continue their conversation.
An email exchange between Miranda Hassett and Philip Jenkins.
An excerpt from Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification.
Idris Goodwin poses an excellent questions, “What is they feeding our kids?”
What Rebecca has been reading this week.
An excerpt from K. David Harrison’s book.
Quotations dictionary editor Elizabeth Knowles talks about the new edition of The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations.
An excerpt from The Loss of Sadness.
On August 19, 1856 Gail Borden patented Condensed Milk.
Donald Ritchie looks at the telegraph.
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 […]
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.
Q&A with Julian Baggini, author of Atheism: A Very Short Introduction
Stephen Kosslyn provides some PowerPoint tips.
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 […]