Words That Shaped the Week: SpaceX, Graduation, and Blood

Source: Vanity Fair

For your edification, a look back at the phrases, nouns, and neologisms that have, for better or for worse, shaped the week's national discourse. SpaceX [spays-ex], noun: A California-based astronautical comp ...
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PAPER TRAIL: May 25, 2012 @ 12:46:00 am

Source: Bookforum

Late last year, author Edmund White suffered a stroke and recovered; sadly, according to news reports based on the author’s Facebook page, White had another stroke earlier this month. He seems to be on the mend again. Yesterday, a blog post wished ...
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Style Invitational Week 973: The third leg of our ‘foal’ Triple Crown

Source: The Washington Post

We’ve had 19 years of our signature Foaling Around contest — in which the Losers “breed” two names of Triple Crown-eligible horses and name the foal. And it’s been seven years of the “grandfoals,” in which you breed any two results of the first contest. ...
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'Swagger' and Other Everyday Words Invented by Famous Authors

Source: The Atlantic

The stories behind modern linguistic touchstones like 'nerd,' 'cyberspace,' and more The English language is ever-evolving, and in our current era of instant communication, Twitter, and text-message shorthand, it just might be evolving more quic ...
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Railsea by China Miéville – review

Source: Guardian Unlimited

What kind of novel might someone produce if he had been influenced by writers such as Joan Aiken, the Awdrys, Daniel Defoe, Ursula Le Guin, Herman Melville, Robert Louis Stevenson, the Strugatsky Brothers and Spike Milligan? The answer is Railsea, China ...
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Top Twitter Abbreviations You Need to Know

Source: Social Media Today

by Bliss Hanlin, a Community Manager for eModeration Twitter abbreviations and acronyms are an odd mash-up of text slang, old school chat room phrases, common sense short forms and corporate buzzwords. There is nothing more terrible than parsi ...
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Chossat's Effect in humans and other animals

Source: Scientific American

This April 09, 2006 post places another paper from my old lab (Reference #17) within a broader context of physiology, behavior, ecology and evolution. The paper was a result of a “communal” experiment in the lab, i.e., it was not includ ...
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Vipul Prajapati's complex artistic cocktail

Source: DNA India

In an exhibition titled Landscapes People and Coherence, artist Vipul Prajapati showcases ‘complex’ landscapes, combines elements of space and time, and represents political as well as social and cultural constructs. The ar ...
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Railsea

Source: Barnes & Noble Review

Do you recall the famous tagline from the very first Superman movie starring Christopher Reeve? "You'll believe a man can fly!" Well, I'm tempted to craft such a hyperbolic assertion for China Miéville's off-the-wall yet utterly ...
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