Euphonious dichotomies… …are most often false…

Euphonious dichotomies… …are most often false…

Euphonious dichotomies……are most often false ones. Stephen Pinker lashes out a little bit at an article in the NYT. That said, he's subtly good on the tacit conventions that underpin language usage and how and why we treat them as rules. Well worth a...
Best earthbound transit photo yet. Bonus marks if…

Best earthbound transit photo yet. Bonus marks if…

Best earthbound transit photo yet.Bonus marks if you spot the less-than-transit-but-still-unusual element in the picture. APOD: 2012 June 13 – A Venus Transit Over the Baltic Sea A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along...

How sort out a crisis. Spot on, in my limited understanding…

How sort out a crisis.Spot on, in my limited understanding of any of this craziness. Do a GM on the bankrupt banks."The right thing to do, again, is to take receivership of insolvent banks and wipe out the stock and subordinated debt, using the borrowed funds to...
Twitter is now officially an advertising business…

Twitter is now officially an advertising business…

Twitter is now officially an advertising business as well."Twitter Cards will only render for domains which have been whitelisted by Twitter."Shame. Twitter Cards | Twitter Developers Twitter Cards will only render for domains which have been whitelisted by...