by Carl Howard | Oct 12, 2012 | Blog Topics, Links
Fascinating press release by Stanford: an academic of humanities has organised an MRI scan of literature students reading Jane Austen in two modes (leisurely vs close literary study). The two show quite different brain patterns suggesting that humanities gives the...
by Carl Howard | Oct 5, 2012 | Blog Topics, Links
Language Log takes a look at the unsourced factlets that are often used when trying to show how the youngsters aren’t literate anymore, nobody reads and hey, the sky is falling too. How racial prejudice contributed to the foreclosure crisis in terms of which loans...
by Carl Howard | Sep 28, 2012 | Blog Topics, Links
US abortion clinics are often lined with protesters harassing those going in and giving them “literature”. What happens when one of the people going in decides to give the protesters a pamphlet of her own (a Flying Spaghetti Monster one)? Hilarious inept bigotry: a...
by Carl Howard | Sep 21, 2012 | Blog Topics, Links
Transphobic asshole: isn’t “giving” gender reassignment surgery to people the equivalent of “giving a paranoid schizophrenic who thinks he’s Napoleon a bicorn hat and a saber”? Zinnia Jones responds There’s a particularly bad job that Google hires contractors for:...
by Carl Howard | Sep 14, 2012 | Blog Topics, Links
Russell Glasser on how not to build inclusive communities. Summary: by not excluding certain people (in this case, those who want to flash their dicks around), you are effectively excluding a very large population — anything is is just Ayn Randian nonsense about level...
by Carl Howard | Sep 7, 2012 | Blog Topics, Links
Amusing: if Shakespeare wrote Javascript A sobering look at the recent Pussy Riot verdict: in addition to the 3 members who got several years, another man is facing a much longer prison term but is not being covered by international media. The ultimate Streisand...
