Ego vs Ergo

According to my friend Nebu, this is "clearly the most useful machine ever built". Post-modern engineering; very nice.

Last year I took an absolutely fascinating class with Dr Natasha Artemeva in the applied linguistics domain of rhetorical genre studies. In this class we discussed, essentially, the function(s) of language in different contexts. For example, we examined such things as tax reports, blog comments, and the construction of academic papers in mathematics. One thing that struck ...

Now, before you start ragging on me for posting a "cute-but-useless YouTube video," actually listen to it! It's great! He explains many very important–but often overlooked–principles of web site design. He could give a first-semester course on design in 3 minutes (he kind of did, actually). He's produced a whole series on site design and traffic ...

In a recent correspondence published in the journal Nature (Nature 452, 530 (3 April 2008) | doi:10.1038/452530d; Published online 2 April 2008) titled "Give south Indian authors their true names", three scientists–Nalini, Jeevananthinee, and Sujatha–emplore the journal essentially to discontinue their requirement to give first and family names. This is due to the non-universal naming system used in most Western ...

You have the chance to learn about another people, take it. (Hat tip to Dr. David Parry who cited this as a good example of the use of social media (in the field of Emerging Media and Communications, his area of investigation.))