Ukraine and WWII in Sand
Has everyone already seen this? Found via aldaily.com
Citing Kindle
I recently wondered how to properly cite a tweet. Today I read, on The Chicago Manual of Style’s New Questions and Answers page, a question about citing something from Kindle. The world is changing. [While we’re on the Q and A page, check out the sort of snitty response at the very bottom. I avoid […]
Music
Go here. Click some boxes. Enjoy.
Malaria Vaccine Delivery
The latest possible method to deliver a sort of vaccine? Mosquitoes.
Edward Gulliver Noah
A little late posting this, but as of July 15th, I have a son to add to my collection of family members. Some pics (they’re not all of Ed).
Hopefully People Will Stop Complaining
Some people can’t get over the word “hopefully.” They want it to only mean, “in a hopeful manner,” and not to mean, “I am hopeful that”. Thus, the following paragraph from here: — Everyone uses “hopefully” as a shortcut for “I hope.” It is not. Yes, the dictionary allows it, but that’s just bending to […]
More Flu
I’ve posted before about the latest swine flu and it’s similarities to the 1918 version that killed more people than all the wars of the 20th century combined. Over the weekend, I attended a talk given by Toby L. Merlin, the Deputy Director of the Influenza Coordination Unit at the CDC. It was fascinating and […]
H. pylori
Latest Wilson’s Quarterly (I can’t link to the specific article) tells me all about H. pylori, the microbe that causes ulcers. (For those of you who still think that ulcers are caused by stress or spicy food, try to catch up, for crying out loud. People have already won the Nobel prize for disproving that.) […]
Latest List of Top Books
Newsweek has published a “meta-list” of The Top 100 Books of All Time. And since they did it by plugging other people’s lists into a model, they didn’t even have to make a single decision. Fiction and non-fiction are mixed. Poetry and prose. I’ve read five of the top ten, and about 35-40 of the […]