I recently had to read my first bit of Chomsky for a class, and was as thrilled as everyone else. It’s easy to see why his work has been so influential across many fields. Much of what Herman and Chomsky note in “A Propaganda Model” is strikingly relevant to issues developing around the growth of [...]
Posted on December 3rd, 2008 by DeepthiW
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Check out this excellent post on the Eight Douchiest Vampires Ever.
Posted on December 2nd, 2008 by DeepthiW
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With the release of Malcolm Gladwell’s third book, Outliers, and accompanying public tour, it seems everyone wants a piece or a punch. We’ve got The dumb, dumb world of Malcolm Gladwell: A guru for the brain dead, Malcolm Gladwell’s Secrets of Success, and the most considered and thoughtful of the lot (even if the name [...]
Posted on December 2nd, 2008 by DeepthiW
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The top 11 languages on the Internet in descending order are: English, Chinese, Spanish, Japanese, German, French, Portugese, Korean, Italian, Arabic, and Russian. (source is apparently Nat’l Geographic, flag image is from www.theworldflag.org)
Posted on December 1st, 2008 by DeepthiW
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