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Alexander Nazaryan at the Daily News (New York — not L.A. or Galveston) has compiled a list of neologisms, taken from the online Urban Dictionary, all derived from the names of famous… Read more »

What would Hippocrates do? No, really. That’s a question Alain Touwaide, Scientific Director of the Institute for the Preservation of Medical Traditions at the Smithsonian Institute, has asked himself. According… Read more »

All the memorable phrases, the fact that everybody’s read him and practically knows his work by heart — who could be a better subject for Pictionary than Cormac McCarthy?

Leading profs stand firm against Elsevier The FBI kept an eye on Christopher Hitchens Anti-censorship & privacy rights groups get behind Smashwords in its battle with PayPal Is Amazon moving… Read more »