Sometimes I think I've heard of every trick to motivate me to get writing and write a great paper, but every once in awhile someone surprises me with a new method. One that I heard recently from a classmate is that he first writes a paper about the paper he wants to write about. Any suggestion here is game, from where to write, under the influence ( Read more... )

4. This is an inverse example of #3: instead of having lots of definitions with no one word, we have lots of words with no one definition.
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3. This is a question about language. I'm interested in finding a word, term, or phrase--which could be from any field of study, industry, or foreign language--that best describes a phenomenon. There are many examples to define it:
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2. The equation of time is not actually an equation. This is an older sense of the word "equation," that doesn't refer to a short mathematical expression with an equal sign, but rather the sense of "equating" one thing to another. So it would more accurately be called the translation of time or the relation or conversion of time. The two forms of ( Read more... )