Scientists marvel at how other scientists – the ones who study something other than what they themselves study – give strange meanings to common words. Evan Shellshear, at Fraunhofer Chalmers Centre in Gothenburg, sent me an example, a study called Fast Robust Automated Brain Extraction. Shellshear said: “I stumbled across this article somehow [whilst] looking for […]
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Symbol Interpretation of Crap (in C)
Scholars have not yet declared unanimously whether this study is the last word on the symbol interpretation of the word crap in coprophilia: “Note on The Symbol Interpretation of The Word Crap in Coprophilia“, Daniel M. Kelley, Psychoanalytic Review, vol. 37:1950, pp. 71-72.
UP and DOWN, KIND OF and SORT OF
Google’s new tool, the books ngram viewer, lets you track the relative occurrence of different words in lotsa books over a long period of time. We used it to gain insight (or whatever) into two phenomena: UP and DOWN had their ups and downs over time. Note that they seemed to go up and down […]
What, if anything, is crazy about this?
This month’s “What, if anything, is crazy about this?” essay poses a complex challenge. Write a clear, sensible essay telling what, if anything is crazy about the following study: “Effet de l’écoute de mots déjà hallucinés chez des sujets schizophrènes en rémission : étude de six cas par la résonance magnétique nucléaire fonctionnelle” [Effects of […]