From this month’s Chicago Style Q&A: Q. “The first of which is better.” I said this is a sentence fragment, but a student pointed out
In the latest installment of the series “The Science of YouTube,” the folks over at Popular Science investigate why videos of cute things–sleepy kittens, fluffy
Last Thursday’s Times Higher Education contains a review of Victoria Johnson’s Backstage at the Revolution: How the Royal Paris Opera Survived the End of the
On Thursday, the New York Post issued an apology for a cartoon “meant to mock an ineptly written federal stimulus bill.” Caricaturing last week’s police
A review of Brian Ladd’s Autophobia published in Friday’s Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune begins by noting the relevance of the book’s topic to the nation’s
We are bemused to note that our book Baboon Metaphysics is shortlisted for the Diagram Prize for Oddest Book Title of the Year, an annual
Several news agencies are reporting this morning on a Russian court’s acquittal of three men who had been accused of participating in the 2006 murder
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