By Scott Jaschik. The pendulum swings quite a bit on the issue of asking applicants to colleges about their disciplinary records and criminal backgrounds. Read more...
11 février 2016
10 février 2016
Is Community College Already Free? It’s More Complicated Than That, Researchers Say
By Andy Thomason. One critique of the free-college movement, or even debt-free college, is that students have plenty of low-cost options within higher education. For instance, community colleges. More...
10 février 2016
Are You Fully Charged?
By Natalie Houston. Tom Rath’s 2015 book, Are You Fully Charged? The 3 Keys to Energizing Your Work and Life, focuses on three areas that contribute to a daily experience of greater engagement, well-being, and productivity — what Rath calls being “fully charged”. Read more...10 février 2016
SLICKS Travel Backpack – Review
By Lee Skallerup Bessette. Two years ago, I found myself in a situation where I was able to bike to work. The challenge was that I also typically wear dresses to work, and not the kind that you can just throw into a backpack. Read more...10 février 2016
Scaling Up Courses
By Anastasia Salter. With the new semester upon us, many people are getting ready to try out new course preps or revisit familiar classes. The too-brief break of the holiday season doesn’t provide much time for preparation, so I find the last days before the semester begins can be a frantic time for revision and planning. Read more...10 février 2016
Tricia
By Geoffrey Pullum. So many words for dying, deceasing, expiring, succumbing, giving up the ghost, meeting one’s end, passing away, being taken from us, meeting one’s maker, going to a better place, breathing one’s last. More...
10 février 2016
They Will Never Forget You …
By Geoffrey Pullum. Glenn Frey died in New York on January 18. Viewed from Britain, his death was completely overshadowed by another death in New York eight days earlier, that of David Bowie. Everyone, it suddenly seemed, had been in love with Bowie. More...
10 février 2016
The Quiet Certainty of Antedating
By Geoffrey Pullum. Recently I mentioned the celebratedly spurious Holmesian nonquotation, “Elementary, my dear Watson.” I pointed out that The Yale Book of Quotations proposes as the earliest known source The New York Times issue of Tuesday, April 30, 1911. More...
10 février 2016
Our National Anthimeria
By Ben Yagoda. Thanks, Nancy Friedman. Some time ago, I read a blog post by the naming consultant about the trend of anthimeria in advertising — that is, using a word as a different part of speech than normal, as in Turner Classic Movies’ “Let’s Movie” and Nutella’s “Spread the Happy.” (Movie, a noun, is being used as a verb, and happy, an adjective, as a noun.) Friedman has collected examples for a long time, and a couple of months ago I started following her lead. More...
10 février 2016
The New Science
By William Germano. Neil DeGrasse Tyson tweeted that it was his favorite line from the film’s trailer: ”I’m going to have to science the shit out of this.”
It’s already the best-known line from Ridley Scott’s The Martian. You might have it on a T-shirt by now. More...
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