-
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 […]
-
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 […]
-
New issue of the Linguistics and Education Bulletin
New issue of the Linguistics and Education Bulletin via Tumblr http://jesusromerotrillo.tumblr.com/post/63085474334
-
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.
-
Lady Thatcher and Tony Blair used ‘hubristic language’, research finds
A new study has found that British Prime Ministers Tony Blair and the late Lady Thatcher used hubristic language during their respective periods in office.
-
Words We Love Too Much
A careful reader pointed out an increasingly common device: modifiers coined by tacking “centric” on to just about every noun in sight. After Deadline http://afterdeadline.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/01/words-we-love-too-much-11