To semi-automatically compose a non-fiction book, or several hundred thousand of them, one can observe the methods of Professor Philip M. Parker (of INSEAD), of whom we have written (semi-automatically) many times. To semi-automatically compose a work of fiction, one can learn much by reading Michelle Legro’s essay in Brain Pickings. It begins: Plotto: The Master Book […]
Tag: literature
Plagiarize! (then, and again)
“Multiple retractions as brazen plagiarist victimizes orthopedics literature” says the headline today in the Retraction Watch blog, which gives lots and lots of juicy details: Several journals in the field of orthopedics and related disciplines have been victimized by an apparent serial plagiarist. The author, Bernardino Saccomanni, of Gabriele D’ Annunzio University, in Chieti Scalo, Italy—across […]
All literature explained in graphs
All of literature is explained, or not, in simple graphs, in this essay by Kurt Vonnegut, the younger brother of Ig Nobel Prize winner (for monography “Chicken Plucking as Measure of Tornado Wind Speed.”) Bernie Vonnegut. It begins: Kurt Vonnegut at the Blackboard I want to share with you something I’ve learned. I’ll draw it […]
Engineering: Charlotte’s Web
Google Books classifies E.B. White’s classic children’s book Charlotte’s Web under the general heading “Technology and Engineering” (see portion of their screen, reproduced below). Many readers would agree, one way or another.