Stupid Motivational Tricks / Bemsha Swing

 It's been said that Cavafy is "flat" or "prosaic."  It certainly can sound like that in translation.  Certainly it ...

A student of mine liked to repeat a slogan about capitalism.  I kept wanting to ask why they had chosen to come live and study in the most c...

 I have an idea.  An artificial intelligence grader.  It would be designed to give an F to any paper that also used AI.  In fact, you could ...

 I have a new Mac air book and it has dictation on it. I'm sure my last one did too, but I don't remember if it worked very well. I ...

 Not to knock Ornette's playing, which I love, but he is actually great at writing tunes, and by tunes I mean melodies, tuneful things w...

 Parallel to that, one could envision diametrically opposed reading methods: 1) Each word receives scrutiny and annotation. The etymology, p...

Human memory is partial and imperfect. A novel narrated in 1st person often has more detail than could be remembered accurately or completel...