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Category Archives: language & literature

language & literature, science & tech

need for speed

Author The Editor Date September 6, 2006
Reading is believing… I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was...
Tagged communication, neurology, science |
in other words, language & literature

what?

Author The Editor Date September 2, 2006
(q-tip waxes philosophic, as lord of the tribe…) — abbridged What is...
in other words, language & literature, the middle east

the madman

Author The Editor Date August 27, 2006
(Few have understood the Middle East and it’s people like Lebanese-born poet and scholar,...
language & literature, science & tech

the mating game

Author The Editor Date February 5, 2006
“The time has come,” the Walrus said, “To talk of many things…” – Lewis...
Tagged art, asia, history, literature, medicine, trade |
finance & economics, language & literature

fine print

Author The Editor Date January 13, 2006
(the following prose figures prominantly at the end of every nortel press release. caveat...
in other words, language & literature

cat people

Author The Editor Date July 1, 2005
(“Everything stinks till it’s finished,” Dr. Seuss once said, long before the enlightened age...
language & literature, science & tech

counting sheep

Author The Editor Date June 21, 2005
“How much?” “A lot,” she replies. “Generic answer” he says, as he heads down...
Tagged mathematics, parenting, psychology |
fiction & art, language & literature

a writer’s struggle

Author The Editor Date June 19, 2005
one word: distraction. three times a second. everywhere. and all of them, in some...
Tagged happiness, time, writing |
history & society, language & literature

mean streets

Author The Editor Date June 8, 2005
Park Avenue, the Champs d’Elysee, Memory Lane. No matter the urban moniker, the basic...
fiction & art, language & literature

amor escrito

Author The Editor Date June 2, 2005
One day, many years after the rise of modern man, life suddenly decided that...
language & literature, world affairs

a call to arms

Author The Editor Date May 21, 2005
the rational post wants YOU! (insert uncle sam’s best conscription imagery HERE) that’s right!...
fiction & art, language & literature

a hero’s rank

Author The Editor Date May 18, 2005
(another piece of early creative writing, first conceived during the intensely productive summer of...
history & society, language & literature

de gustibus

Author The Editor Date May 16, 2005
(The following is an exerpt from a book I started to write in the...
history & society, language & literature

freaky friday

Author The Editor Date May 13, 2005
So another Friday the 13th has come and gone, and as the superstitious among...
history & society, language & literature

persona non grata

Author The Editor Date May 8, 2005
(the third in a series on the rights of the individual, this article examines...
history & society, language & literature

slippery slopes

Author The Editor Date May 7, 2005
(the second in a series of early university papers on ethics, this article once...
history & society, language & literature

the trolley problem

Author The Editor Date May 6, 2005
(the first in a series of early university papers on ethics, i originally wrote...
fiction & art, language & literature

future topics

Author The Editor Date May 2, 2005
“universal darwinism” – life, evolved “green eggs and ham” – dr. seuss, sesame street,...
language & literature, travel & life

ground zero

Author The Editor Date May 2, 2005
so here it is. my inaugural attempt at self-publishing. i’ve never much liked an...
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language & literature

notable quotables

Author The Editor Date May 2, 2005
Einstein described relativity this way: “Put your hand on a hot stove for a...
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