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Wright is wrong about sociology as well as basketbal

robert wright, "the secret of jeremy lin's success?", the atlantic 2/14/2012:one of the most intriguing cultural contrasts between eastern and western ways of viewing the world was documented in experiments by the psychologist richard nisbett, some of them in collaboration with takahiko masuda. the upshot was that east asians tend to view scenes more ho... (1 天前)

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Linsanity

by now, practically everyone has heard of the remarkable basketball performances of jeremy (shu-how) lin 林書豪, the harvard grad who came off the bench for the new york knicks last week and helped them win seven straight games.so sensational has his play been that enthusiasts swiftly coined the term "linsanity" to describe it.? of course, because lin i... (2 天前)

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Valentine's Day anti-labiality

today's frazz:this particular peeve was not previously known to me, but there's a facebook page, among other independent pieces of evidence.... (3 天前)

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Grid takes off her derpants

i'm going to play this for my morphology class next week when we start talking about affixation… but there's no reason why you all shouldn't enjoy it now, now, now!thanks to alex trueman.if you enjoyed this, you may also want to check out this oldie but goodie:?how i met my wife. happy valentine's, if you're into that sort of thing!... (3 天前)

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Severely viral

yesterday, paul krugman picked up on our "severely x" post ('severe conservative syndrome", nyt, 2/12/2012):mitt romney has a gift for words — self-destructive words. on friday he did it again, telling the conservative political action conference that he was a “severely conservative governor.”as molly ball of the atlantic pointed out, mr. romney “d... (3 天前)

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"Downton Abbey" anachronisms: beyond nitpickery

i've been taking advantage of the rabid interest in "downton abbey" lately to report on some verbal anachronisms that have cropped up in the show's second season (originally broadcast on itv in the uk late last year and now wrapping on pbs in the us). over the past few days i've written about it in columns for the boston globe and the visual thesaurus, a... (3 天前)

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Cultural diffusion and the Whorfian hypothesis

geoff pullum summarizes keith chen's view of "the e?ect of language on economic behavior" as follows ("keith chen, whorfian economist", 2/9/2012):chen […] thinks that if your language has clear grammatical future tense marking […], then you and your fellow native speakers have a dramatically increased likelihood of exhibiting high rates of obesity, sm... (5 天前)

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