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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.
Ben Zimmer’s follows up on last week’s post, Pouring New Wine Into Old Phrasal Bottles.
Q&A with Julian Baggini, author of Atheism: A Very Short Introduction
Stephen Kosslyn provides some PowerPoint tips.
Anatoly Liberman looks at the death of the adverb.
Ben’s Place of the Week is Meteor Crater, Arizona.
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 […]
An excerpt from Plum and Posner’s Diagnosis of Stupor and Coma.
Craig Panner helps us understand Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS).
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.
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.
Michael Ravitch looks at The Declaration of Independences.
Ben Zimmer looks at how writers and speakers of English often use an established phrase as a template for creative variations on a theme.
An excerpt from Robet Baden-Powell’s original 1908 ‘Scouting for Boys’
A podcast of James Monaco and Laurent Tirard talking about Moliere.
Diane Ravitch looks at education.