The study of adjective order
Posted: 2014/08/11 Filed under: academics, grammar, media Leave a commentIt is a lovely warm August day outside, and I am wearing a green loose top. Does the second part of that sentence sound strange to you? Perhaps you think I should have written “loose green top.” You’re not wrong (though not entirely right, because descriptivist linguistics): An intuitive code governs the way English speakers order adjectives. The rules come so naturally to us that we rarely learn about them in school, but over the past few decades language nerds have been monitoring modifiers, grouping them into categories, and straining to find logic in how people instinctively rank those categories.
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“We surveyed 10,752 people about …”
Posted: 2014/04/22 Filed under: academics, awesome person, humor Leave a commentvia Twitter / fakethirtyeight: We surveyed 10,752 people about ….
xkcd: Before the Internet
Posted: 2014/03/28 Filed under: academics, advice, events, media, technology Leave a comment
via xkcd: Before the Internet.
It totally was not worth it.
Every Every Every Generation Has Been the Me Me Me Generation
Posted: 2013/09/26 Filed under: academics, advice, media | Tags: me generation Leave a commentNew York, August 23, 1976: “The ‘Me’ Decade and the Third Great Awakening.” Tom Wolfe opened this story with a sobering account of some kind of Los Angeles thing in which a couple hundred people got together and pressed “the reset button” on something that really bothered them, and for one lady, that thing was hemorrhoids. “In her experience lies the explanation of certain grand puzzles of the 1970s, a period that will come to be known as the Me Decade.”
via Every Every Every Generation Has Been the Me Me Me Generation – Elspeth Reeve – The Atlantic Wire.
Duh. Every day is me day.
Bay Bridge finally gets some respect
Posted: 2013/03/04 Filed under: academics, art, awesome person, design, events, media, technology | Tags: Bay Bridge, Berekely, bridge, IKEA, installation, Leo Villareal, light, light show, new, npr, pixels, Rodney Dangerfield Leave a comment*Seriously watch the video below!!*
The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge “is the Rodney Dangerfield of bridges,” as our friends at KQED say. While the Golden Gate gets respect and tourists, the Bay Bridge simply does its job. But the humble span will shine Tuesday, thanks to 25,000 light-emitting diodes.
The white lights will form patterns that continuously morph and move across the bridge’s span, or slide up or down its supports. The Bay Lights project is the work of artist Leo Villareal, who uses diodes like pixels to create scenes of mesmerizing fluidity…
via Artist Prepares To Light Up San Francisco’s Bay Bridge Like Never Before : The Two-Way : NPR.
I’ve never heard of the Bay Bridge being called the “Rodney Dangerfield of bridges,” but that’s hilarious. I *do* respect you Bay Bridge. You let me live in SF while going to school in Berkeley, and how else would I get to IKEA? ❤
wtfnasa?
Posted: 2012/08/15 Filed under: academics, awesome person, design, events, technology Leave a commentWhat the fuck has NASA done to make your life awesome?
via wtfnasa?.
Go there & GO NASA!
Ex-Google executive’s new venture helps students avoid corporate life
Posted: 2012/08/08 Filed under: academics, awesome person Leave a comment(Reuters) – Four months after leaving Google Inc, the former head of its enterprise business has a new mission – helping college graduates avoid big corporations like Google.
Upstart, a service that is launching in limited form on Wednesday, lets university graduates raise money from other people online so that they can start their own businesses, pursue a research project, or chase a personal dream, rather than take a “safe” job in the corporate world.
“There’s this overwhelming desire to not follow the traditional path of bolting yourself to a desk and climbing the corporate ladder,” said Upstart founder Dave Girouard.
But he said too many graduating students have college loans they need to repay and do not feel they can take a chance.
via Ex-Google executive’s new venture helps students avoid corporate life | Reuters.
My god we need more stuff like this.