Alex Reid, after some discussion of the smaller-than-previously-thought role the conscious mind actually plays in human life, tells us that “teaching practices work fairly well for the most part, even though they are built on a likely faulty model of the mind.”
In part, that’s because writing relies on a lot of the subconscious functions built in […]
TypePad, one of the biggest subscription-based blogging providers, has offered free pro-level accounts to journalists and ex-journalists. I’m serious. You can check it out for yourself if you want. I already sent them an e-mail asking for an account.
I’m pretty notorious for using WordPress on all of my sites, but I can’t pass up the chance […]
I, like many people around the world, have now seen the trailer for J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek, which is scheduled to be released in May 2009. Many people are up in arms about the trailer — the whole movie, in fact. That’s because it takes us back to the Original Series era with Kirk, Spock, McCoy and […]
Correction: The title should have read that the paper was criticized for NOT publishing news of Obama’s win.
CNN reports about the 5,000-circulation Daily Herald in Salpulpa, Okla., which did not carry news of Barack Obama’s win in its Wednesday edition.
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Some townspeople, many of them African American, picketed outside the newspaper’s offices and told […]
The Economist put out a short article on Nov. 6, commenting on Jason Calacanis’ retirement from blogging. Calacanis founded Weblogs Inc., and the Economist compares his retirement from blogging to Michael Jordan leaving basketball. It is, in other words, a big deal.