On Nurses and Doctors
An excerpt from Ethics in Nursing.
The Many Legacies of Aids
An excerpt from Erotic City.
Friday procrastination: link love – the British pint glass, steampunk and stepmothers
What Kirsty in Oxford has been reading this week.
Waiting for the Supreme Court to Decide Bilski
Recommended interim steps to be implemented in patent prosecution involving business-related and computer-related inventions in order to minimize risk for the future and increase the likelihood of a patent issuing and ultimately being enforceable down the road.
Geisha – Podictionary Word of the Day
The podictionary word of the week is “geisha”.
Reasons to Believe that there is a God
Professor Richard Swinburne examines the philosophical argument to believe in God.
Ursula von Rydingsvard
An excerpt about Ursula von Rydingsvard.
Dross, Dregs, Trash, and Other Important Substances
Part 3: Trash
Anatoly Liberman looks at the word “trash”.
Happy Birthday Anton Chekhov!
Rosamund Bartlett celebrate’s Chekhov’s 150th birthday.
Ode to a Prescriptivist
Introducing Alexandra D’Arcy.
Obama is Liked but Not Supported
Elvin Lim looks at President Obama.
Health Care and the Massachusetts Senate Election
Edward Zelinsky looks at health care cost control.
Disproving the Notion of Random Chance in Evolution
If evolution is the opposite of Intelligent Design, can there be such a thing as non-random chance in evolution? In this passage, John C. Avise discusses how natural selection in genes is as precise as if it were planned, and further debunks the argument for Intelligent Design.
On High Art
John Carey has been at various points in his life a soldier, a barman, a television critic, a beekeeper, a printmaker, and a professor of literature at Oxford. He is the Chief Book Reviewer for The Sunday Times in London. His book, What Good are the Arts? offers a delightfully skeptical look at the claims […]
Friday procrastination: link love – art with salt, bubble wrap, and Obama
What Rebecca has been reading.
Will the iPad Change Your Life?
A look at the iPad.