Maybe they meant numerical literacy . . .
Dennis Johnson
Late yesterday The New York Times caught up with the Quill Awards story that had been announced earlier in the day in an unusual early morning report from Publishers Weekly… Read more »
Late yesterday The New York Times caught up with the Quill Awards story that had been announced earlier in the day in an unusual early morning report from Publishers Weekly… Read more »
There’s no question that the great Polish author and artist Bruno Schulz was a “modernist master,” but the manner of his death has made him a much more complex historic… Read more »
January 25 was the birthday of the great Scottish bard Robert Burns. But, as Kristy Scott reports in a Guardian story, Alloway, “the small thatched cottage where Burns was born… Read more »
A 12-year-old British schoolboy “has uncovered several mistakes in the latest edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica — regarded by readers as an authority on everything,” notes Justin Parkinson in a… Read more »
Kinky Friedman, the some-time country singer (“Get Your Biscuits in the Oven and Your Buns in the Bed”) and some-time mystery writer (Kill Two Birds and Get Stoned), announced last… Read more »
To celebrate the 250th anniversary of Moscow State University (better know by its Russian acronym MGU), the school has built a new library, instituted a new line of textbooks, and… Read more »
A 66-year-old grandmother who “cooks treats using cannabis” as treatment for her depression and back pain, and who is up on possession charges in an English court, has written a… Read more »
Late yesterday The New York Times caught up with the Quill Awards story that had been announced earlier in the day in an unusual early morning report from Publishers Weekly… Read more »
There’s no question that the great Polish author and artist Bruno Schulz was a “modernist master,” but the manner of his death has made him a much more complex historic… Read more »
A 12-year-old British schoolboy “has uncovered several mistakes in the latest edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica — regarded by readers as an authority on everything,” notes Justin Parkinson in a… Read more »
Kinky Friedman, the some-time country singer (“Get Your Biscuits in the Oven and Your Buns in the Bed”) and some-time mystery writer (Kill Two Birds and Get Stoned), announced last… Read more »
To celebrate the 250th anniversary of Moscow State University (better know by its Russian acronym MGU), the school has built a new library, instituted a new line of textbooks, and… Read more »
A 66-year-old grandmother who “cooks treats using cannabis” as treatment for her depression and back pain, and who is up on possession charges in an English court, has written a… Read more »