From the blog of Leland McInnes, a Canadian who is in the enviable position of having completed his Ph.D., comes a hypothetical look at what it would be like if we tought English with the same pedagogy as mathematics. His conjecture? It would be a dry, irrelevant, joyless subject. I don't have the time to explore the issue in this space at the ( Read more... )

This nicked from red_wyvern.
( Lots and lots of questions )

This quiz was originally titled "50 girly questions," but there were (in the version I found) only 32 questions. Makes me wonder what happened to the other 18. Maybe they were too girly for release on the bi-gender-blog-o-sphere... white_iris_down suggested that this be filled out by a guy, and I figured I'd oblige.
( Rob Answers the girly questions! )

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This just in from "Metro", a tabloid that is issued for free in busses in Edinburgh (among other places).
Beaver makes a suprise visit

A forrester who went to check his apple trees for signs of an early spring found instead that they had been reduced to stumps. Jake Moorcock thought it looked like the work of beavers, but the creatures have ( Read more... )

Sorry to be a stranger. It's been a busy month, and will not be getting any slower before the end.

I found the following on a thread of rants by University TAs complaining about students who do not staple assignments when turning them in. As of yet, I'm tutoring 4 hours a week this term but do not have this problem. The thread is on the ( Read more... )