- Mini-theme of the week: Referencing! Citation Obsession? Get Over It! (Chronicle of Higher Education) : Throwing the Citation Handbook Away (Chronicle of Higher Education) A Don's Life: Damn footnotes (Mary Beard) [My own contribution is here.]
- APA Style Blog: Data Is, or Data Are? Related to the above--yet more prescription from those helpful folks at APA! Could such "guidance" possibly contribute to this kind of writing? Neuroskeptic: Why Don't Social Scientists Want To Be Read?
- Evidence based teachers network OK, but it elides into The outstanding lesson and even educationevidence.com It's not a game, folks!
- Fall, Mortality, and the Machine: Tolkien and Technology - Alan Jacobs Slightly disappointing piece, overall, but some good comments.
- The Power of the 8-by-10 Film Camera - NYTimes.com Interesting piece on how, in effect, the bulk and clumsiness (?) of the equipment imparts a different feel to its products...
- Psychological principles as guidelines for effective PowerPoint presentations and Presentation Zen: Tips on how to be more creative by John Cleese
- George Miller has died It's amazing to find how authors of utterly classic papers in psychology have been with us until so recently--the reference to his Magic Number Seven--plus or minus two is in the linked piece.
- Fairies (Chronicle of Higher Education) Geoff Pullum seems to be fated perpetually to kill the hydra-headed "Eskimo words for snow" myth, but "British words for rain" may be a contender for replacement.
- The Wisdom of Not Being Too Rational - ScienceNOW Are crows hedgehogs and children foxes?
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