- John Naughton, sharpening the contradictions of capitalism. Part of a really cruel set of Cambridge revelry. This one makes me look hungrily for the nearest lamppost.
- A very kind notice of an actress on Language Log: Listen closely to Ward pronouncing just the “fir him or ‘gin him” quotation. It’s a delightfully odd and entertaining mixture of Lalla’s own British dialect and what she imagines Southern American English to sound like.
- The smell of urine from dominant male mice provokes neurogenesis in females. Does this work in humans? Do the smells of the urine low-status males cause brain damage? Because in that case, walking up the stairs in the Lion Yard car park must take 20 points off your IQ.
- Do I dare install a split image focussing screen in my camera?
- A quick peek around the Washington Post’s Faith site suggests that the Guardian’s readers are pretty well-educated and moderate by comparison. This is rather depressing.
- For all my sneering at Wikipedia — and I intend to continue — I have to say that it had a much more detailed article on the human hippocampus than Britannica has managed.
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Andrew: If you want to see something interesting, look at the comments on the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (www.ajc.com) site when a religious issue is exercising people.
Fragano, thanks.
Is it totally futile of me to suppose that there might somewhere be a place on the wb where the discussion of religion rose to the standard you might expect in a decent bar?
A lot of that is that people become very defensive about religious beliefs. I’m constantly amazed by it.