Professor Joshua Lederman kindly shared this letter, written more or less for the benefit of a student, with us: Dear Chucky, I’m sorry it has come to this, but you need to realize that you are just simply not smart enough to complete the necesarry work to finish this class with a passing grade. Please […]
Month: April 2006
Is the Grand Canyon a fake?
Is the Grand Canyon a fake? (The famous) Earle Spamer asks that question, and attempts to answer it. His report appears in the March/April issue of the Annals of Improbable Research. (NOTE: The photo at right shows one of the hordes of visitors to the GC. Most visitors are unaware of the controversy.)
Scrambling (sic) to save a language
Languages on the brink of death might be revived by gaming, suggests a March 27, 2006 Associated Press report: Those who hope they can stop the Dakota Sioux language from dying have hit on the perfect word: Scrabble. A special Scrabble tournament in the language made its debut Friday, pitting teams from Sioux reservation schools […]
Quickie language acquisition
There are there many ways to learn a foreign language, but, as a general rule, there is no “quick fix” way of doing it. At some point, you have to buckle down, study and attend classes. Or do you? An Islamic boarding school in Probolinggo, East Java, has a rite that they say will allow […]