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Bibliotherapy: Textual healing (The Economist 12th Oct 2013)
Book balm, also known as bibliotherapy
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New publication: Research Trends in Intercultural Pragmatics. Ed. by Kecskes, Istvan & Romero-Trillo, Jesús
Mouton de Gruyter 2013. Click this link for Table of Contents and other details
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A million reasons to improve teacher quality (The Economist)
Education A million reasons to improve teacher quality Oct 16th 2013, 17:07 by R.A. | LONDON THIS week’s Free exchange column looks at a fascinating bit of statistical work on the value of a good teacher. Economists Raj Chetty, John Friedman, and Jonah Rockoff obtained a massive data set from a large, urban school system, which covered 2.5m […]
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It seems dangerously easy to get scientific nonsense published
Academic publishing Science’s Sokal moment The Economist Oct 5th 2013 |From the print edition IN 1996 Alan Sokal, a physicist at New York University, submitted a paper to Social Text, a leading scholarly journal of postmodernist cultural studies. The journal’s peer reviewers, whose job it is to ensure that published research is up to snuff, gave it […]
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An epic tale about a small corner shop. New British Fiction
The Economist, Sep 28th 2013 |From the print edition Marriage Material. By Sathnam Sanghera. William Heinemann; 304 pages; £14.99. Buy from Amazon.co.uk THE corner shop is not a place of grand narratives. “Reserved for the purchase of emergency milk and Rizlas”, it offers neither the drama of a supermarket nor the space for many characters. Yet it is an institution […]
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I Know How You’re Feeling, I Read Chekhov
By PAM BELLUCK Casey Kelbaugh for The New York TimesEmanuele Castano and David Comer Kidd worked on a study that found that reading literary fiction leads to better performance on tests of social perception.