Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Great Regulars: So for example, a lot of the book

is about poetry, and the title is from an Emily Dickinson poem. Now it's very easy to read Emily Dickinson from the point of view of neuroscience. I mean, she almost seems to be writing from the point of view of neurosciences sometimes.

from Bryan Appleyard: The Guardian: Science Weekly podcast: The inscrutable brain

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The genius of the Alvarez character--"The woman with the best chin in news"--is the way she embodies two of the most distinctive aspects of contemporary television news, cruelty and anchor inflation. Her cold heart even extends to ruthless put-downs of her co-presenter Tucker Hope, who masochistically worships the ground on which she walks. But it is the viewers she really hates. When a mild-mannered history teacher points out an ONN factual error, she sets a news/surveillance team on her, revealing that her husband is having an affair and her pupils hate her. She also gives away the exact location of her house.

from Bryan Appleyard: The from The Sunday Times: The Onion's Psychotic Bitch

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