The Geek Who Understands You
We call them eggcorns—”tiny little poems, a symptom of human intelligence and creativity”. The Guardian calls them “word crimes”. On July 7, Oxford University Press published a new edition of the Concise Oxford English Dictionary, and apparently sent around a…
“[Harvard professor of epidemiology and nutrition] Walter Willett says most people would be healthier if they had a BMI below 22. It’s as if he said most people would be healthier if they were more than 6 feet tall. It…
Patients with severe depression improve using guidelines developed by UT Southwestern researchers That’s great. I wanna see the damned guidelines! I did check UT Southwestern’s site but didn’t find them posted in an obvious manner. I suppose they’ll be publishing…
First the Fed filked. Then Colin Powell filked “YMCA” at the conclusion of a major Asian security conference. Current Mood: 🙂amused
What’s Behind the 4-Minute Mile, Starbucks, and the Moon Landing? The Power of Impossible Thinking
Dear gods. The Fed filked. Current Mood: 😯scared
This won’t hurt much by Terry Jones For some time now, I’ve been trying to find out where my son goes after choir practice. He simply refuses to tell me. He says it’s no business of mine where he goes…
2004 Teen Report Card on Adults I haven’t seen that before. I’d be interested in whether or not the teens I know agree with most of the grades.
Until 1962, the Catholic canon law clearly spelled out punishments for priests who were sexually abusive in any way. Then, not only were the rules changed to be more secretive, but the document itself was supposed to be a secret,…
Okay, this’ll probably start the political arguments again, but anyway: Will The Commissioners Cave? Appearing Sunday on ABC’s This Week, Sept. 11 commission chairman Kean fell in line, saying repeatedly that the staff report is only an “interim report.” Not…
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