Lachmann Research Fellowship at LSE

Came across this Research Fellowship at the LSE website - I'm posting it in case it's relevant to any readers who for one reason o...

Caderno de Saramago

Mithridates has just sent me an e-mail. Saramago has a blog . (It's available in Spanish as well as Portuguese; hope that means most r...

trilingualism

David Crystal on trilingualism in children. Three is an age where monolingual children first display serious 'normal non-fluency' (...

iterated polarisation games

[published this earlier, then wanted to think some more and put it in the drafts folder, got some e-mails from readers so I am posting again...

all change

Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve and Hank Paulson, the Goldman Sachs tycoon who became US Treasury secretary, have done mor...

fiddling while Rome...

It feels peculiar posting anything at all, why bother to link when everyone can go straight to the sources themselves, why bother to say any...

that is not what I meant, at all

came across some videos of Douglas Adams on YouTube, including one in which Stephen Fry talks about his Wodehousian humour, then reads out ...

oblivion

DFW lies in the arms of sleep's cousin. I think suddenly of the work of David Lewis on modal realism. My friend Peter King summarises: ...

appalled

Over on Political Arithmetik , a post from August on age and voter turn-out. In 2004 those 18-29 were 21.8% of the population, while those 5...

against mimesis

All the reviews I’ve seen have mentioned Pierce Brosnan’s terrible singing, but I haven’t seen much criticism of Meryl Streep’s performance...

LRB

Jenny Turner has written a review of Your Name Here for the LRB, here .

chartjunk of the day

Andrew Gelman comments on a flagrant example of chartjunk over on The Monkey Cage .