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[links] Link salad celebrates Yuri’s Day
Yuri’s Planet — APOD with an image honoring Gagarin.
Gender and the shifting definitions of epic and urban fantasy
A digression on literary categories — Making Light (Teresa, actually) on genre categories. A scream.
Would a linguist always grade your writing A+? — Language Log on prescriptivism and (essentially) copy editing.
That Noisy Woodpecker Had an Animated Secret — Avant garde art and Woody Woodpecker.
Even Moderate Drinking Increases the Risk for Cancer — Hmmm.
Navy Laser Sets Ship on Fire — The closer on this article is quite something.
Who is to blame for first shot? — It’s the Civil War version of “Han shot first!” (Thanks to my Dad.)
Japan mulls raising nuclear crisis to top level
Fukushima Core Failure a Level 7 (the Worst) — Juan Cole on Japan’s news and nuclear power in general.
Liberal vs. conservative: Who has better brain? — I’m kind of struggling with this little bit of politiconeuroanatomy. (Via David Goldman.)
Why Education Decreases Religious Faith — More to the point, education honestly presented, not that Liberty University crackerjack box degree stuff.
?otD: Why me, there must be a thousand other guys?
4/12/2011
Writing time yesterday: 1.0 hours (WRPA, revisions and submittals)
Body movement: 30 minute stationary bike ride
Hours slept: 4.5 hours (solid)
Weight: 248.6
Currently reading: Between books
Posted: 5:33 am Tue April 12 2011 |
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Cora
April 12th, 2011 at 6:19 pmThanks for the link to my gender and fantasy post. I just went online after a long and busy day to see that my stats counter had exploded over the day.
Also thanks for the link to the Making Light piece on genre distinctions. Very funny and oh so true.
Jay
April 13th, 2011 at 6:18 amYou are welcome. It was a good post.