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- Don’t Forget Intuition: The art of doing science https://theamericanscholar.org/dont-forget-intuition/ 32 comments
- Order Amid Chaos: A poet-scientist considers the imponderables of existence https://theamericanscholar.org/order-amid-chaos/ 7 comments
- Writing English as a Second Language (2009) https://theamericanscholar.org/writing-english-as-a-second-language/ 11 comments
- Nationalist Anthems: Remembering a time when composers mattered more https://theamericanscholar.org/nationalist-anthems/#.Xf-Shi2ZNQL 3 comments
- Orwell’s Last Neighborhood https://theamericanscholar.org/orwells-last-neighborhood/ 2 comments
- Tuskegee Truth Teller https://theamericanscholar.org/tuskegee-truth-teller/ 3 comments
- The Disadvantages of an Elite Education (2008) https://theamericanscholar.org/the-disadvantages-of-an-elite-education/ 206 comments
- Nabokov in Utah https://theamericanscholar.org/net-gains/#.VYhuL6bwOt- 5 comments
- Why Book Reviewing Isn’t Going Anywhere - The American Scholar https://theamericanscholar.org/why-book-reviewing-isnt-going-anywhere/#.XiNwdkRKiqA 3 comments books
- The American Scholar: The Last Island of the Savages https://theamericanscholar.org/the-last-island-of-the-savages/#.xaawd2gzbiu 3 comments india
- Instant Gratification: as the economy gets ever better at satisfying our immediate, self-serving needs, who is minding the future? http://theamericanscholar.org/instant-gratification/ 7 comments philosophy
- Where Are the People?: The decline of evangelical Christianity's influence http://theamericanscholar.org/where-are-the-people/#.uq-wupzry_i 15 comments indepthstories
- If you want others to follow learn to be alone with your thoughts. http://theamericanscholar.org/solitude-and-leadership/ 17 comments business
- Hypotheses on what a new full-fledged pictorial language might look like. http://theamericanscholar.org/picturing-a-whole-new-language/ 6 comments linguistics
- Bilingual children learning both a spoken language and a sign language have been shown to hit language milestones in their spoken language earlier than monolingual children learning only that spoken language. http://theamericanscholar.org/magic-fingers/#.uxlsprv_h2t 7 comments linguistics
- The “bouba-kiki” effect reminds us that even our innermost frivolities may not be that individual at all. http://theamericanscholar.org/kiki-or-bouba/#.uutywxx_hzx 24 comments linguistics
- Do nonhuman animals have grammar? New research suggests they might. http://theamericanscholar.org/dr-doolittle-calling/ 50 comments linguistics
- Upon encountering a truly ambiguous word, all of its meanings—at least the reasonably common ones—are immediately activated. Sometimes, hilarity ensues. http://theamericanscholar.org/derailed-by-whos-on-first/ 9 comments linguistics
- "Psychologists believe that humans (and other animals) represent small and large numbers of objects in fundamentally distinct ways. In smaller numbers, objects are represented individually. But in larger numbers they cannot be; instead they’re lumped together and treated approximately" http://theamericanscholar.org/babies-bamboozled-by-numbers/ 26 comments math
- Babies are bamboozled by the number four. http://theamericanscholar.org/babies-bamboozled-by-numbers/ 20 comments linguistics
- "Totally" has totally entrenched itself in the English language. http://theamericanscholar.org/so-totally-on-my-mind/ 23 comments linguistics
- Justice for Sale - How big money is overwhelming judicial elections and corroding our confidence in the courts http://theamericanscholar.org/justice-for-sale/ 7 comments law
- Reading at a gallop versus reading at a trot - the Slow Reading movement http://theamericanscholar.org/reading-fast-and-slow/ 3 comments linguistics
- Prescriptivists versus Descriptivists http://theamericanscholar.org/rules-versus-rules-what-the-new-yorker-got-wrong/ 12 comments linguistics
- People tend to be far more tolerant of variable spellings for words that appear infrequently than for words that are encountered more often (caddy corner versus kitty-corner?) http://theamericanscholar.org/on-caddy-corner-or-whatever-that-word-is/ 14 comments linguistics
- Syntactic priming - when we appear to be swayed by the structure of recently mentioned sentences when forming our own. http://theamericanscholar.org/should-two-constructions-diverge/ 8 comments linguistics
- “War will become impossible if all men were to have the view that war is wrong.” ~ Sir Archibald Bodkin http://theamericanscholar.org/i-tried-to-stop-the-bloody-thing/ 13 comments politics
- A word's phonological neighborhood size can affect the way we understand and use it. http://theamericanscholar.org/when-words-are-neighbors/ 4 comments linguistics
- Do people think for writing in the same way as they think for speaking? http://theamericanscholar.org/spelling-and-the-mind/ 8 comments linguistics
- Some evidence suggests that people’s names can prod them into certain careers or prevent them from entering others. http://theamericanscholar.org/when-rosemary-should-be-rosy-and-merry/ 3 comments linguistics
- Readers tend to "hear" character's voices in their heads as they make their way through texts. http://theamericanscholar.org/when-characters-speak-off-the-page/ 5 comments linguistics
- George W. Bush is probably much more well-read than you. http://theamericanscholar.org/dubya-and-me/ 70 comments books
- George W. Bush: Student of History http://theamericanscholar.org/dubya-and-me/ 23 comments history
- Flacking for Big Pharma --- Drugmakers don’t just compromise doctors; they also undermine top medical journals and skew medical research http://www.theamericanscholar.org/flacking-for-big-pharma/?utm_source=social_media&utm_medium=twitter 5 comments business
- "A friend who teaches at the University of Connecticut once complained to me that his students don’t think for themselves. Well, I said, Yale students think for themselves, but only because they know we want them to." http://www.theamericanscholar.org/the-disadvantages-of-an-elite-education/ 6 comments philosophy
- "Mark David Chapman, the young assassin, was carrying two things with him when he shot and killed John Lennon on the steps of the Dakota apartments in Manhattan: a pistol and a paperback copy of The Catcher in the Rye." http://www.theamericanscholar.org/on-first-looking-into-chapmans-holden-speculations-on-a-murder/print/ 5 comments books
- The Disadvantages of an Elite Education http://www.theamericanscholar.org/the-disadvantages-of-an-elite-education/?foo=bar 5 comments reddit.com
- The Disadvantages of an Elite Education http://www.theamericanscholar.org/su08/elite-deresiewicz.html 19 comments philosophy
- The discoverer of the Flynn effect claims genes control IQ less than you’d expect http://www.theamericanscholar.org/au07/flynn-restak.html 6 comments science
- Space and time fall into the province of biology -- of animal sense perception -- not of physics http://www.theamericanscholar.org/sp07/newtheory-lanza.html 2 comments reddit.com