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April 5, 2007 KR Blog Uncategorized

Short Takes

MIT builds a better foot.

Mommy Oprah?

“Britain has one camera for every 14 subjects: keeping account of everything is full time work.”

Alairy” is clearly a British phenomenon. I don’t remember using it in skipping rope, at any rate.

Re: thankless jobs

“Parents in the UK spend less time with their children than those in any other European country.”

New information infrastructure (circa 1600) affects language; scholars bemused.

How to spell proper names.

“Tye’s representational theory is committed to the view that the phenomenal content of a pain experience is identical to its representational content.”

Five minds? I have the damnedest time with just the one.

While Frank Sinatra sings “Stormy Weather,” the flies and spiders get along together

A book about missing girls and assumed identity wins Maslin’s approval.