- Think Again: European Decline
@markhleonard and @hanskundnani tackle seven myths, more or less convincingly.
- Intellectual Biography and Niall Ferguson
Drezner on form.
- Don’t make fun of renowned Dan Brown
"The critics said his writing was clumsy, ungrammatical, repetitive and repetitive. They said it was full of unnecessary tautology."
- Leading Men Age, But Their Love Interests Don’t
Broken down by age and sex.
- Ultraconserved words? Really??
Too good to be true.
- Vintage Dutch safety posters
Wow.
- Michael Gove and 'correct grammar': let me explain this slowly
"there is one certain way to make life harder for children to acquire Standard English: creating tests that fail them."
- Where on the Blue Marble
Space game!
Links I found interesting for 11-05-2013
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October Books 9) Edward Gibbon and Empire, eds. Rosamond McKitterick & Roland Quinault
As you know, Bob, I spent a lot of time reading The Decline and Fall of he Roman Empire a few years back, and it certainly made me a Gibbon fan.…
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Links I found interesting for 22-10-2013
Some Mercy May Be Discovered Metafilter on Boethius, citing me on Gibbon. (tags: gibbon )
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Decline and Fall: What I got from reading it
It was at the end of August 2009, twenty-eight months ago, that I started to read Gibbon's Decline and Fall, and two weeks ago that I finished…
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