Category Archives: The Human Condition

Much healthcare coverage ignores Everyman’s needs

Washington Post Ombudsman Andrew Alexander says that readers are crying out for more basic coverage of healthcare reform that focuses on how it affects normal people, not on the political maneuvering.
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Not since the Greeks...

We are in the middle of a literacy revolution, the like of which has not been since since the Greeks invented writing in the first place, says Standford writing and rhetoric professor Andrea Lunsford.
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“Fail” gets the NYT treatment

The New York Times’ “On Language” blog has a post about the word “fail” and how it has trans­formed from com­mon verb to Internet excla­ma­tion to noun — and even adjec­tive in some cases. Ben Huh, CEO of Pet Holdings, the com­pany that owns Fail Blog, told the Times that “fail” really took off because of [...]
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Atheism in America, a view from 2001

I’ve been read­ing Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion, and in that book, he men­tions an arti­cle by Natalie Angier, pub­lished in the New York Times in 2001. I’m not really going to com­ment on it much, but I do think it’s a valu­able read. I’ll post a few choice quotes here.
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Facebook will melt your brain

A British neu­ro­sci­en­tist, whose work I’ve writ­ten about before, was the sub­ject of an arti­cle in the Guardian yes­ter­day. In it, Lady Susan Greenfield, a pro­fes­sor of synap­tic phar­ma­col­ogy a Lincoln col­lege, Oxford, tells us that the fast-paced, instant grat­i­fi­ca­tion world of social net­work­ing is prob­a­bly chang­ing the way a gen­er­a­tion of net­worked children’s minds work. [...]
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