Vicarious Learning

This Week In Education On The Hill | Monday August 02, 2010 |

After an eventful week of media events -- National Press Club, NAACP -- the Secretary seems to be taking it a little slower this week.  Check it all out below.  Either that or he's doing lots of campaign events and secret NCLB reauthorization confabulation,...

Cool Cat Teacher Blog humor | Sunday August 01, 2010 |

Does anyone else find it ironic that when I follow this link that I cite in my highly trafficked post Making the Case for Cell Phones in School that it would take us to the Center for Digital Democracy and a page that is now firewalled? ...

Inttranews - Daily News Site for Linguists Sunday August 01, 2010 |

Ottawa, Canada (Tenders): The Integrated Business Management Services (IBMS) Directorate was established in 2000. Its main objective is to provide value-added strategic information, coordination, planning and advice to support decision-making and the...

Psychology and Crime News Miscellaneous | Sunday August 01, 2010 |

The role of the third sector in work with offenders http://is.gd/dV9FZ [pdf]. HT to LSE Library Blog http://is.gd/dV9zi # http://www.statecrime.org "Acts committed, instigated or condoned by governments [are] under-acknowledged by academics"...

Linguaphiles Sunday August 01, 2010 |

Hello, I was referred to this community to hopefully get help with a translation.  I have an article written by my Great(x4) grandfather in Welsh, but some of it is archaic and it's proving very difficult for me to translate on my own!  Is there...

Experimental Philosophy Sunday August 01, 2010 |

The first issue of the RPP dedicated to experimental philosophy is now out. Check out the ToC here . This is really an excellent issue with very good articles. The equally excellent articles for the second issue dedicated to experimental philosophy are...

Experimental Philosophy Sunday August 01, 2010 |

The first issue of the RPP dedicated to experimental philosophy is now out. Check out the ToC here . This is really an excellent issue with very good articles. The equally excellent articles for the second issue dedicated to experimental philosophy are...

Psychology Today Blogs Relationships | Sunday August 01, 2010 |

http://brainstorminonline.com/the-tiger-woods-syndrome-demystified/

Psychology Today Blogs Stress | Sunday August 01, 2010 |

In our culture, we've been taught that stress is bad and we need to combat it like an enemy. We hear about all kinds of ways to "decrease our stress" as if it's something to fear. Personally, I never wish for less stress. I aim for a greater capacity to handle...

Paleoglot minoan | Sunday August 01, 2010 |

Browsing the web as usual I came across something that captured by attention. It turns out that Edward Sapir in his 1937 article Hebrew "Helmet," A loanword, and its bearing on Indo-European phonology had reconstructed a Philistine word *kaubaɣ- 'helmet' based...

Psychology Today Blogs Social Life | Saturday July 31, 2010 |

America is a car culture in which bumper stickers are a ubiquitous presence, yet they are rarely examined as a phenomenon. Why do people put bumper stickers on their cars? One obvious motive is the desire for self-expression, to announce oneself to the world....

Psychology Today Blogs Depression | Saturday July 31, 2010 |

Judith Orloff recently wrote that, "Tears are your body’s release valve for stress, sadness, grief, anxiety, and frustration." This sort of thinking has a long history in Western folk psychology about crying. One analysis of 140 years of popular articles...

rogueclassicism Claims | Saturday July 31, 2010 |

Image via Wikipedia An item up at Fortean Times about Ernst Chladni caught my eye a couple of days ago because it included this paragraph: In fairness to the Age of Reason’s meteor­ite debunkers, an awful lot of superstition and folk tales...

Psychology Today Blogs Cognition | Saturday July 31, 2010 |

In a classic experiment known as the Ultimatum Game, person A is given 10 coins to split between himself and person B. If person B accepts the distribution, they both keep the coins; if not, no one gets paid. According to Game Theory, the optimal solution is...

Linguaphiles books | Saturday July 31, 2010 |

Hello! I searched through the tags to see if I could find an answer to my question - forgive me if I missed the answer somewhere in there. So, I am looking in to learning two different languages right now. One (German) I took for 3 years in high school, and...

languagehat.com Saturday July 31, 2010 |

How time flies! As always, I thank my commenters, without whom I wouldn't bother blogging; this time around, I thought I'd link to a selection of posts, one from each year, that I remembered with fondness as I skimmed through the archives: 2002: WHAT...

Psychology Today Blogs Happiness | Saturday July 31, 2010 |

I just passed through the kitchen while my husband was talking on the phone to a friend of ours. She's a highly qualified professional (a psychologist, actually) with decades of experience giving talks to audiences of all sizes, yet as a single mother with two...

Language Log Psychology of language | Saturday July 31, 2010 |

My note this morning on " Most " stirred up some discussion: Geoff Nunberg: I think 'most' licenses a default generalization, relative to a bunch of pragmatic factors, … MattF: I think 'most' has a normative or qualitative sense in addition...

ResourceShelf Uncategorized | Saturday July 31, 2010 |

New York Magazine reports on an independent database where someone (no name is given in the article or the site but a domain search shows some info) has gathered nearly 4,000 (3911 to be precise as of July 31, 2010) of the most recent New York Times wedding...

Mr. Verb Dialects | Saturday July 31, 2010 |

Yup, that's the range of the alphabet covered in the last volume of the Dictionary of American Regional English . Joan Hall, who's leading the charge on to Z, has an excellent piece in the new Newsweek , which you can read here . She alludes at the end to...

headsup: the blog language | Saturday July 31, 2010 |

Today's quiz: Name three places where you could expect to find candidates for governor this weekend. (Non-US readers especially encouraged to play.) Ah, the rewards of having a native informant in the other room. A coney island is not just a food item...

The “Blog” of “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks Saturday July 31, 2010 |

As submitter Wesley said: "Dude!" These cantaloupes are "Sweet!"

Psychology Today Blogs Social Life | Saturday July 31, 2010 |

We often have to choose between something nice that we can have right away and something better that we'd need to wait for. Other choices involve something we desire but know that we'll have to pay a price in money or pain later. Do we choose to have it...

Weblogg-ed On My Mind | Saturday July 31, 2010 |

From Michael Schrage in the Harvard Business Review : When I look at who is getting hired, purported knowledge almost always matters less than demonstrable skills. The distinctions aren’t subtle; they’re immense. How do they manifest...