The Bedside Dysmorphologist
William Reardon, author of The Bedside Dysmorphologist: Classic Clinical Signs in Human Malformation Syndromes and their Diagnostic Significance looks at the possible genetic ramifications of deep-set eyes.
Friday procrastination: link love – books, blogs, and billboards
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 […]
Park Guell
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.
Phrasal Patterns 2: Electric Boogaloo
Ben Zimmer’s follows up on last week’s post, Pouring New Wine Into Old Phrasal Bottles.
The Inaugural Very Short Introductions Column: Atheism
Q&A with Julian Baggini, author of Atheism: A Very Short Introduction
PowerPoint for Martians?
Stephen Kosslyn provides some PowerPoint tips.
Do it Real Quick,
Or The Death of the Adverb
Anatoly Liberman looks at the death of the adverb.
Meteor Crater, Arizona
Ben’s Place of the Week is Meteor Crater, Arizona.
Oxford World’s Classics Book Club: On Relaxing With Huck
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 […]
Consciousness
An excerpt from Plum and Posner’s Diagnosis of Stupor and Coma.
Reviving Coma Patients
Craig Panner helps us understand Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS).
Friday procrastination: link love – Monopoly, Ozomatli, and Poet Laureates
The history of Monopoly. Congratulations to Charles Simic, the new Poet Laureate. A great look at The Book Depository. Ozomatli as Cultural Ambassadors? Books, Inq, celebrates the anniversary of Wallace Steven’s death.
Email as literature?
Is the Internet good for literature? On first glance, it seems so. Between internet forums, blogs, messages and emails, nearly everyone is writing, and reading, certainly more than we did just a few years ago, when the ubiquity of television and the telephone seemed to be making literacy obsolete.
Dumbing down the Declaration of Independence
Michael Ravitch looks at The Declaration of Independences.
Pouring New Wine Into Old Phrasal Bottles
Ben Zimmer looks at how writers and speakers of English often use an established phrase as a template for creative variations on a theme.
Scouting for Boys: An Excerpt
An excerpt from Robet Baden-Powell’s original 1908 ‘Scouting for Boys’