Deciding To Die: The Case of Karen Quinlan
An excerpt from The Woman Who Decided to Die: Challenges and Choices at the Edges of Medicine.
June 12th is Loving Day
Peggy Pascoe shares the history of the holiday Loving Day, happening June 12th.
RT this: OUP Dictionary Team monitors Twitterer’s tweets
A recent study out of Harvard confirms Twitter is all vanity. This is not a big surprise to the dictionary team at Oxford University Press. OUP lexicographers have been monitoring more than 1.5 million random tweets Since January 2009 and have noticed any number of interesting facts about the impact of Twitter on language usage. For example the 500 words most frequently used on Twitter are significantly different from the top 500 in general English text.
Fanspeak: The Lingo of Sci-Fi and Fantasy Fandom
Jeff Prucher looks at words coined by science fiction and fantasy fans.
How the New York Times (and Almost Everyone Else) Missed the Watergate Scandal
Donald Ritchie looks at the reporting of Watergate.
The Dirty Dozen:
Top 12 Helen Gurley Brown-isms
Advice from Helen Gurley Brown.
A Memorial Day Tribute To The G.I. Bill
An excerpt from The G.I. Bill: A New Deal For Veterans.
Scientists Without Beards
Patricia Fara looks at women in science who have inspired her.
Antimatter and ‘Angels and Demons’:
A fiction thought to be fact
Oxford University Professor of Physics, Frank Close, explains the antimatter errors in ‘Angels and Demons’.
Swine Flu: Whatever next?
Dorothy H. Crawford, Professor of Medical Microbiology at the University of Edinburgh, on the H1N1 swine flu outbreak.
A Look at Michael Oren
A look at Michael Oren.
Paying a Lawyer
How do lawyers get paid?
McPherson and Symonds: A Conversation
An email conversation.
The Week Twitter Entered My Life
Michelle talks about finally getting hooked on Twitter and what it means for Book Publicists.
First Contact
How would you communicate with an alien? A look at how Science Fiction authors tackled the problem.
Planet Narnia: A Fully Worked Out Idea
An excerpt from ‘Planet Narnia’ by Michael Ward, the basis for the recent BBC documentary ‘The Narnia Code’.