As someone who spends most of her time wading around in words, I’m always intrigued by creative visual representations of research. In word form, for instance, statistics can lose me pretty quickly. But I could look at the Telegraph’s selection of maps from The Atlas of the Real World for hours. Countries shrink or swell [...]
Today’s post is all about Russia. Why? Because I adore the blog English Russia, whose tag line is “Because something cool happens daily on 1/6 of the Earth’s surface.” And what’s not to love? The blog has a quirky sensibility. Awkward English. Images of long lines and emerging punk fashion in Soviet and post-Soviet days. [...]
1. Critique them. Failing that, criticize.
The Cynical-C Blog regularly posts selections of one-star Amazon reviews of classic literature, film, and music. I’m all for questioning the canon. But most of these reviews are dedicated to the fine art of missing the point. I couldn’t help pulling out a few of my favorite assertions about books [...]
Poet Craig Arnold, a professor at the University of Wyoming who has been involved with numerous Wyoming Humanities Council projects, has been missing on the Japanese volcanic island of Kuchinoerabu-jima since Sunday, April 26. Craig has visited volcanoes in multiple countries as part of his research for a book he’s currently writing on world volcanoes. [...]
We’ve been focusing so much on the visual lately that it seemed a sensory switch was in order. And since R&D has yet to find a way to get Pat the Bunny up onto your monitors, for today’s globally-themed post, I’ll ask you to lend me your ears instead.
Forvo bills itself as the largest pronunciation [...]