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August 2020

Monday Afternoon Diversion

Not sure how I landed on this video—Twitter, maybe?—but after watching it I found myself on the Ant Lab YouTube + more

Forget What We Said Two Days Ago. This Is the BEST Year Ever.

According to the fine folks at the Oxford English Dictionary, there are 171,476 English words currently in use. And not + more

Only 127 Days Left in This Godforsaken Year

From Scientific American, folks: “‘Oumuamua—a mysterious, interstellar object that crashed through our solar system two years ago—might in fact be + more

We’re Doomed (part 763,842)

Just when I was starting to think that maybe—just maybe—millennials have been unfairly maligned, more evidence emerges that this generation + more

“Will you type curse words?”

From Wesley McNair’s wonderful piece about the late poet Donald Hall and his assistant Kendel Currier, three things are abundantly + more

Miscellany

Before you take this advice seriously, ask yourself one question: Has the federal government ever—and I do mean ever—been right + more

Pretending to Be Adults

“Not quite a cliché, not quite a term of art,” writes Olga Khazan, “a buzzword is a profound-seeming phrase devised + more

Tuesday Musings

The other day I saw a bumper sticker that read “It’s Not Hard to Be Nice.” At first blush, it’s + more

Stop! Grammar Time!

You’ve all heard the rule: “I before E except after C.” But as the great Stephen Fry points out, it’s…not + more

Quote of the Day

“All human effort beyond the lowest level of the struggle for animal subsistence is motivated by the need to live + more

Stop! Grammar Time!

This one’s a beast: affect or effect? The simplest answer is that affect is a verb; effect is a noun. + more

Miscellany

We live in an age in which respectful, good-faith, reasoned debate is the exception rather than the rule. So I’m + more

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