Monday, 4 May 2015

multifarious and took pride in it

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From The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood by James Gleick : No one doubted that Charles Babbage was brilliant. Nor did anyone...
Sunday, 11 January 2015

ciao, GG101x

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When I just started my first MOOC , the choice of courses at edX was very limited and most of them were called “Introduction to something”....
Monday, 24 November 2014

native speakerism as a form of racism

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Racism, as well as native speakerism, only survive if they are constantly reinforced through daily discourses that make them seem natural, ...
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Wednesday, 27 August 2014

you get little credit for speaking swahili

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From An Introduction to Sociolinguistics by Ronald Wardhaugh: Monolingualism, that is, the ability to use only one language, is such a ...
Sunday, 20 July 2014

a real team effort

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From The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford: We all know that in most countries the Ministry of Defense is in charge of attacking other...
Thursday, 29 May 2014

in the field of silent air flows

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Scientific job advertising clearly went downhill since... well, since my last successful application, some time in the last century. In the...
Monday, 21 April 2014

celtado

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I can’t say that I never thought of doing something useful to earn my living. For example, teaching English. It was not until last year tho...
Tuesday, 1 April 2014

at cost of infinite suffering, we study to love whiskey and cigars

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From Novel Notes by Jerome K. Jerome: “Thought existed before the Printing Press; and the men who wrote the best hundred books never re...
Friday, 28 February 2014

aku-aku, what have I done

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From Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond : Education is a process involving two sets of participants who...
Friday, 3 January 2014

applying online

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I guess everybody who started working in science 20—25 years ago would agree that applying for a job now is not what it used to be. No, ...