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(Clement Atlee) There is no doubt that pithy aphorisms… - [Unintended consequences of political correctness](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2008/03/22/unintended-consequences-of-political-correctness/): Colbert I. King - Why Obama Stands With His Church - washingtonpost.com This history comes to mind as I listen to conservative commentators, chief among them MSNBC's Pat Buchana… - [Are US copyright laws unconstitutional: Default states semantics](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2008/02/23/are-us-copyright-unconstitutional-default-states-semantics/): LII: Constitution To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and… - [Individual perspicacity, collective naïveté](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2008/02/17/individual-perspicacity-collective-navet/): Nicholas Kristof is puzzled and pleased that the US electorate is keeping two individuals as front runners who are willing to express unpopular opinions: The World’s Worst Pande… - [Two models of governance: Foundations of policy negotiation](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2008/02/10/two-models-of-governance-foundations-of-policy-negotiation/): Lakoff in 'Moral Politics' talks about how competing models of family influence policy and politics debates in the US. This model duality is not only present in a variety of con… - [Finally! The truth about truth: Folk foundations of scientific reductionism](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2008/02/07/finally-the-truth-about-truth-folk-foundations-of-scientific-reductionism/): On The Media I'm not a psychologist, but I think that at some deep level, if the situation you’re living is a lie, and the situation these boys were living was one, and, moreove… - [Brief endorsement](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2008/01/28/brief-endorsement/): Obama has the smarts, the plans and, yes, the charisma to capably lead and transform a nation that aches for a new direction. Editorials & Opinion | Obama for the Democrats | Se… - [Primogeniture: Negotiating the internal 'logic' of social change](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2008/01/18/primogeniture-negotiating-the-internal-logic-of-social-change/): BBC - Radio 4 Woman's Hour -Male Primogeniture Jenni discusses the law of primogeniture with Liberal Democrat MP Lynne Featherstone, who has asked the Equality and Human Rights … - [The perception problem and the question of rationality in life](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2008/01/08/the-perception-problem-and-the-question-of-rationality-in-life/): Women Are Never Front-Runners - New York Times But what worries me is that he is seen as unifying by his race while she is seen as divisive by her sex. What worries me is that s… - [Collective cognition, culture, mind share and patterns of action](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/11/04/collective-cognition-culture-mind-share-and-patterns-of-action/): Ubuntu: Just how popular is it? - Starry Hope Productions ...Ubuntu has managed to gain a large portion of the Linux mind share , at least amongst the tech community . Wikipedia… - [Negotiating radial categories: Some mothers do have them](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/11/04/negotiating-radial-categories-some-mothers-do-have-them/): Is It Possible To Be Half-Adopted?   Imagining someone giving away semen or an egg couldn’t possibly feel the same as imagining a parent giving a way a baby. Could i… - [Phallic imagery in English-language comedy and the theory of image schemas](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/11/03/phallic-imagery-in-english-language-comedy-and-the-theory-of-image-schemas/): Now, there's no doubt in my mind whatsoever that George Lakoff's theory of mental imagery (usually referred to via the concept of Image Schemas) describes a phenomenon that is p… - [More meaningful than what? Populations and truth in social science](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/11/01/more-meaningful-than-what-populations-and-truth-in-social-science/): WHNews: Pay Gap - No Pay Day As of 30th October, if you’re a woman and you go out to work, you’re working for nothing until the 31st December. The Fawcett Society and the union … - [Convention over logic: Limits of implicature](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/10/14/convention-over-logic-limits-of-implicature/): Evening News 24 - Refuse fire near City Hall   Arsonists sparked an emergency response after setting light to a rubbish container near City Hall on Saturday evening. The su… - [Indeterminacy in art criticism as frame negotiation](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/10/13/indeterminacy-of-framing-in-art-criticism/): On The Media: Transcript of "Not So Innocent" (October 5, 2007) RICHARD HALPERN: Right. There's often a kind of loss of innocence that takes place in the paintings themselves, w… - [Utility of prejudice: Reducing freedom to cognition and vice versa](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/10/10/utility-of-prejudice-reducing-freedom-to-cognition-and-vice-versa/): Quote Details: William Hazlitt: Without the aid of... - The Quotations Page Without the aid of prejudice and custom I should not be able to find my way across the room. William … - [Perspectives, views and child cognition](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/09/12/perspectives-views-and-child-cognition/): Media Blog on National Review Online What the BBC is telling children about the 9/11 attacks [Tom Gross] Here is what the BBC’s widely-read children’s section of their website (… - [Cognition, information, knowledge and the limits of serial computing](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/09/11/cogntion-information-knowledge-and-the-limits-of-serial-computing/): BBC - Radio 4 - Today Programme Listen Again 11 Sept 2007 08:50 It's the 50th anniversary of the British Computer Society. But what can we expect over the next half century? Wil… - [Poetry in blogs and cognitive persistence](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/09/06/poetry-in-blogs-and-cognitive-persistence/): Just Say No "Nonetheless I took the tomatoes away." This is only partially a hermeneutic post. It's so rare to see poetry in blogs (unless they're poets' blogs which I don't rea… - [Changes in word meaning and folk theories of reasonable mappings](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/09/02/changes-in-word-meaning-and-folk-theories-of-reasonable-mappings/): On The Media In the parlance of Republican-primary politics, “sanctuaryâ€? – as in sanctuary city – has become a bad word. ... GEOFFREY NUNBERG: Well, sometime around 2005… - [Lol cats and conventionalization of semiotic systems](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/09/02/lol-cats-and-conventionalization-of-semiotic-systems/): Anil Dash: Cats Can Has Grammar The core behavior has existed for some time; "Image macro" is a generic term for this kind of folk art, and cats have always featured heavily in … - [Searching for coherence in high-stakes utterances](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/09/01/searching-for-coherence-in-high-stakes-utterances/): YouTube - Miss Teen USA 2007 - South Carolina answers a question Miss Teen USA 2007 - Ms. South Carolina answers a question http://youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww[/youtube] It i… - [From culture-specific to the universal in the US counter-insurgency manual](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/08/24/from-culture-specific-to-the-universal-in-the-us-counter-insurgency-manual/): "Be polite, be professional, be prepared to kill." Lt. Col. Nagel summarizing a new US Army counterinsurgency manual (on the Daily Show ) This quote reminds of the critique of u… - [Paradox of the evolutionary metaphor in language death](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/08/24/the-paradoxical-evolutionary-scenarios-and-language-death/): When Languages Die: Science and Sentiment : In his book When Languages Die: The Extinction of the World’s Languages and the Erosion of Human Knowledge K. David Harrison illustra… - [Blurring the lines of folk and expert theory](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/08/23/blurring-the-lines-of-folk-and-expert-theory/): Its All Semantics - Freakonomics - Opinion - New York Times Blog A similarly obtuse but less jargon-laden example of unintentially comedic writing is the title of IRS form 5213,… - [Folk theories of conceptual causality and collective autonomy](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/08/20/folk-theories-of-conceptual-causality/): Film examines Daily Mail 'diet' | The Guardian | Guardian Unlimited In the footsteps of Supersize Me, a documentary-maker has attempted to find out whether we are what we read b… - [Girl Wars, Boy Wars](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/08/18/girl-wars-boy-wars/): The Girl Wars : Terrible Mother on Offsprung.com It seems like half the interactions between women can be classified as Girl Wars. Do we ever get out of this? And why the hell a… - [Bill O'Reilly on the 8:05 from Brighton](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/08/13/bill-oreilly-on-the-805-from-brighton/): ‘Bourne’ flick is ultimately un-American - Opinion & Editorial - BostonHerald.com I knew this movie was trouble when I read the reviews. Almost all the critics liked it. The onl… - [Networks of trust and the newspaper business](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/08/13/networks-of-trust-and-the-newspaper-business/): Virtual Economics: Why newspapers are not screwed ...newspapers' core value is not their content but their validation. Sure it's expensive to create content. In the long run thi… - [Bi-furcated narrative frames in public policy debates](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/08/12/bi-furcated-narrative-frames-in-public-policy-debates/): Confessions of a BBC liberal - Times Online There is a perfectly reasonable case for progressive liberal reform of penal policy. There is also a perfectly reasonable case for a … - [Anecdotes, metaphors and the negotiated truth](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/08/11/anecdotes-metaphors-and-the-negotiated-truth/): Media Matters - "Media Matters"; by Jamison Foser "I believe in the usefulness and validity of the telling anecdote -- the seemingly small story that reveals a broader truth abo… - [Metaphoric inferencing in action and the negotiation of interpretive privilege](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/08/11/metaphoric-inferencing-in-action-and-the-negotiation-of-interpretive-privilege/): Making Light: Bookstore chain puts the screws on small publishers We have concluded that we have far too many suppliers, Malarkey again. Rimmer is inappropriately borrowing lang… - [Schematic imagery as euphemistic framing in war news reporting](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/08/07/schematic-imagery-as-euphemistic-framing-in-war-news-reporting/): Analysis: Military Shows Gains in Iraq Despite political setbacks, American commanders are clinging to a hope that stability might be built from the bottom up—with local groups … - [Media and scenarios of public opinion formation](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/07/25/media-and-scenarios-of-public-opinion-formation/): Disfavor for Bush Hits Rare Heights - washingtonpost.com That may stem in part from the changing nature of society. When Caddell's boss was president, there were three major bro… - [Negotiating image projections: Who has the power?](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/07/23/negotiating-image-projections-who-has-the-power/): New Statesman - Who is the real Hillary? she is certainly the most extraordinarily self-disciplined politician I have ever watched in action. But then she has to be, because she… - [Walking robots and local grammars](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/07/14/walking-robots-and-local-grammars/): BBC NEWS | Technology | Robot unravels mystery of walking "Babies use a lot of their brains to train local circuits but once they are trained they are fairly autonomous."Only wh… - [Atheism as religion and limits of rationality](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/07/13/atheism-as-religion-and-limits-of-rationality/): Michael Gerson - What Atheists Can't Answer - washingtonpost.com So the dilemma is this: How do we choose between good and bad instincts? Theism, for several millennia, has give… - [Negotiating scenarios of democracy](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/07/13/negotiating-scenarios-of-democracy/): OpinionJournal - Peggy Noonan President Bush was hired to know more than the people, to be told all the deep inside intelligence, all the facts Americans are not told, and do th… - [Sources of usage consensus in language change](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/07/12/sources-of-usage-consensus-in-language-change/): Shifting Idioms: An Eggcornucopia : OUPblog Original New sleight of hand: 85% 15%: slight of hand fazed by: 71% 29%: phased by Ben Zimmer lists the increasing changes (by 'false… - [Collective negotiation of causal relations](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/07/11/collective-negotiation-of-causal-relations/): Congress must end U.S. role in a civil war nobody voted for That is why we propose to end the authorization for the war in Iraq. The civil war we have on our hands in Iraq is no… - [Conservatism as part fo language competence](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/07/11/conservatism-as-part-fo-language-competence/): Language Log: Keeping "wrong grammar" off the air A program will be assigned a "PG" rating if it shows "people speaking with wrong grammar (except for humorous effects)." The ar… - [Language Log: The Supreme Court Fails Semantics](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/07/08/language-log-the-supreme-court-fails-semantics/): Language Log: The Supreme Court Fails Semantics All that the Court actually argues is that "BONG HiTS 4 JESUS" contains a reference to drug use. Gibberish is surely a possible i… - [Professional linguists and folk theory of language](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/07/08/professional-linguists-and-folk-theory-of-language/): Language Log: The Linguistic Abilities of the Presidential Candidates For what it's worth, if we count only confirmed languages spoken fluently or reasonably well, the average n… - [Opportunism and power of analogical mapping](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/07/02/opportunism-and-power-of-analogical-mapping/): Why Winston Wouldn't Stand For W - washingtonpost.com Writing about Churchill and Chamberlain, I've discovered, is like administering a Rorschach test to one's readers. People s… - [Wittgenstein and folk theories of language and intelligence](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/07/01/wittgenstein-and-folk-theories-of-language-and-intelligence/): Quote Details: Ludwig Wittgenstein: Philosophy is a battle... - The Quotations Page Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language. Ludw… - [Generative analogies as negotiation devices](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/06/30/generative-analogies-as-negotiation-devices/): Amazon.com: Liberal Fascism: The Totalitarian Temptation from Hegel to Whole Foods: Books: Jonah Goldberg Goldberg draws striking parallels between historic fascism and contempo… - [Rejection of metaphor](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/06/17/rejection-of-metaphor/): Metaphorically Challenged : Terrible Mother on Offsprung.com “That is an awesome metaphor,â€? I said. Because it is. It’s funny without the use of burning children. But it i… - [Havel on intertextuality](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/06/14/havel-on-intertextuality/): CBC.ca Arts - Retired Czech leader Havel pens new play "Living in the world of political language was quite an inspiration" he said. "I try [in my play] to reflect the automatic… - [Science vs. social science of the environment](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/06/14/science-vs-social-science-of-the-environment/): FT.com / Comment & analysis / Comment - Freedom, not climate, is at risk As someone who lived under communism for most of his life, I feel obliged to say that I see the biggest … - [Mis-entrenchment of codified blendings](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/06/06/mis-entrenchment-of-codified-blendings/): The Newshoggers: Jeri Thompson - asset or albatross? [Part Two] However, thanks to a commenter at my place , I see by common definition "trophy wife" is indeed considered to be … - [Hitchens vs Hitchens | the Daily Mail](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/06/03/hitchens-vs-hitchens-the-daily-mail/): Hitchens vs Hitchens | the Daily Mail If we are weak and poor, we can all summon up self-interested decency, behaving in a kind way, in public, towards those from whom we hope f… - [Unjustified blending and the threat of terrorism](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/06/03/unjustified-blending-and-the-threat-of-terrorism/): Malfunctioning fax machine prints out bomb ClipArt, forces evacuation of area - Engadget In any normal town across America there are countless faxes sent and received which feat… - [Negotiating 'lie'](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/05/10/negotiating-lie/): On The Media: Transcript of "Secrets & Lies" (May 4, 2007) BOB GARFIELD: The issue in question was Saddam's aluminum tubes and whether they were meant for centrifuges to produce… - [The analogical instinct](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/05/08/the-analogical-instinct/): Comparison To Clinton Is Dismissed - washingtonpost.com Tom Ingram, who was an adviser to Fred D. Thompson 's 1994 Senate campaign and has talked to him about a potential 2008 p… - [Metaphor hypostasis as a cohesive device](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/04/27/metaphor-hypostasis-as-a-cohesive-device/): RealClearPolitics - Articles - Is the War on Terror Over? Do we still need to fight a war on terror? The answer seems to be no for an increasing number in the West who are weary… - [Blending a life: Personal narratives of public events](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/04/26/blending-a-life-personal-narratives-of-public-events/): On The Media: Transcript of "Me is for Media" (April 20, 2007) BROOKE GLADSTONE: And I don't want to diminish the horrific experience that those people went through, but it did … - [Homicide attacks and the restrictions on mapping in blending](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/04/26/homicide-attacks-and-the-restrictions-on-mapping-in-blending/): The following segment from the Wikipedia entry on suicide attack is a good example of how the restrictions on mapping in conceptual integration can be negotiated even "against t… - [Folk theory of meaning has hypostasis of reference in the Imus controversy](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/04/12/folk-theory-of-meaning-has-hypostasis-of-reference-in-the-imus-controversy/): Imus's last outrage? - The Boston Globe Imus apologized for his latest remark and was suspended for two weeks. But this time, his job could be on the line, said John DePetro, a … - [Evidencing negotiated frames: The Pelosi debate](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/04/07/evidencing-negotiated-frames-the-pelosi-debate/): Nancy Pelosi, Respectfully Maintaining Her Own Image - washingtonpost.com There are few images more discomforting than public figures thrust into foreign cultures and required t… - [Framing the frames: The Gingrich gambit](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/04/04/framing-the-frames-the-gingrich-gambit/): Think Progress » Gingrich: When I Said ‘Language Of Living In The Ghetto,’ I Meant Hebrew (Or Maybe Yiddish) Newt Gingrich said this past weekend that the U.S. should aboli… - [Negotiating vocabulary and the logic of analogy](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/03/23/negotiating-vocabulary-and-the-logic-of-analogy/): Politics, Lies, and 93 v. 8 - Swampland - TIME Brooks’s distinction is between two different conceptions of the word “political.â€? Or rather, like most nice clear distincti… - [Text worlds, anaphora and syntactic structures as spandrels](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/03/23/text-worlds-anaphora-and-syntactic-structures-as-spandrels/): Politics, Lies, and 93 v. 8 - Swampland - TIME David Brooks has an excellent column today, and not for the usual reasons that liberals praise Brooks (and he drives conservatives… - [McJobs, the Dictionary Wars and Folk Theories of Meaning](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/03/22/mcjobs-the-dictionary-wars-and-folk-theories-of-meaning/): Golden Arches Wants 'McJob' Removed: McDonald's Targets the English McLanguage - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News McDonald's Corp. on Tuesday restarted its push to get the … - [Negotiating metaphoric mappings in advertising](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/03/10/negotiating-metaphoric-mappings-in-advertising/): The metaphoric mappings that structure most of our frames are usually seen as automatic. However, more often than not, they are negotiated through discourse prior to becoming fu… - [Opportunistic blending, semantic prosody and framing in politics debate](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/03/10/opportunistic-blending-semantic-prosody-and-framing-in-politics/): MyDD :: Direct Democracy for People-Powered Politics Roger Ailes: "And it is true that Barack Obama is on the move. I don't know if it's true that President Bush called Musharra… - [Sex and race on and beneath the surface of discourse](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/02/16/sex-and-race-on-and-beneath-the-surface-of-discourse/): Why I had to quit the John Edwards campaign | Salon News Even before Donohue stepped in, various right-wing bloggers were obsessed with my gender and sexuality. As I noted at th… - [From surface to depth and back in discourse: A case of semantic prosody](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/02/13/from-surface-to-depth-and-back-in-discourse-a-case-of-semantic-prosody/): OBAMA: We ended up launching a war that should have never been authorized and should have never been waged and to which we have now spent $400 billion and has seen over 3,000 li… - [Discursive diglossia and American racial politics](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/02/04/discursive-diglossia-and-american-racial-politics/): Eugene Robinson - An Inarticulate Kickoff - washingtonpost.com What is it, exactly, that white people mean when they call a black person "articulate"? ... Biden explained Obama'… - [Frame negotiation through popular culture frame hypostasis](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/02/04/frame-negotiation-through-popular-culture-frame-hypostasis/): Media Matters - Conservatives continue to use Fox's 24 to support hawkish policies conservative talk radio host Laura Ingraham told host Bill O'Reilly: "The average American out… - [Analogy as ritually rhetorical device and 9/11 symbolisms](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/01/29/analogy-as-ritually-rhetorical-device-and-911-symbolisms/): Was 9/11 really that bad? - Los Angeles Times Has the American reaction to the attacks in fact been a massive overreaction? Is the widespread belief that 9/11 plunged us into on… - [Cummulative identity and failed assumptions on multiculturalism](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/01/29/cummulative-identity-and-failed-assumptions-on-multiculturalism/): BBC NEWS | UK | Younger Muslims 'more political' Young Muslims are much more likely than their parents to be attracted to political forms of Islam, a think tank survey has sugge… - [What 'Hillary' should have said: Indeterminacy of metaphor integration](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/01/29/what-hillary-should-have-said-indeterminacy-of-metaphor-integration/): The Politico But it wasn't revealing because she was suggesting her husband is "evil and bad." It was revealing because -- asked about dealing with evil men like Osama bin Laden… - [Cognitive foundations of civilizations](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/01/22/cognitive-foundations-of-civilizations/): iTWire - A new 'iBook' from Google?: be afraid, be very afraid Google is plotting to do for books what the iPod has done for music: make them purchasable by download to a portab… - [Death by analogy](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/01/17/death-by-analogy/): 'Hold Your Wee for a Wii' Death Shuts Down Show - Gameworld Network news story Ten employees have lost their jobs over the incident, and the radio show is permanently off the ai… - [Frame-relative assessments and globally warming terrorism](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/01/17/frame-relative-assessments-and-globally-warming-terrorism/): Hawking says climate change poses greater threat to humanity than terrorism - International Herald Tribune LONDON: Scientist Stephen Hawking described climate change Wednesday a… - [Algorithms and everything](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/01/09/algorithms-and-everything/): digg - The Digg Comment Algorithm Everything in this world can be shown as a flowchart algorithm. This, of course, applies to the complex and not well researched field of “Digg … - [Sources of credibility and the results of education](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/01/09/sources-of-credibility-and-the-results-of-education/): I got an A in Phallus 101 - Los Angeles Times The problem that the Young America's Foundation list, first issued in 1995, highlights isn't simply the hollowing-out of the tradit… - [Images of language and learning in mavenry](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/01/08/images-of-language-and-learning-in-mavenry/): Limp language leaves kids with an awesome paucity of speech [Teenagers on which the author eavesdrops] They've got one all-purpose word -- "awesome" -- to cover everything from … - [New Atheism and old religions or the other way around?](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/01/08/new-atheism-and-old-religions-or-the-other-way-around/): On The Media: Transcript of "God No!" (December 15, 2006) In response to the global challenge posted by religious extremism, a small group of impassioned atheists has taken a ne… - [Libraries, freedom and the limits of free-market electoral logistics](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/01/04/libraries-freedom-and-the-limits-of-free-market-electoral-logistics/): OpinionJournal - Leisure & Arts A software program developed by SirsiDynix, an Alabama-based library-technology company, informs librarians of which books are circulating and wh… - [Limits of social cognition research as a basis of policy](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/01/04/limits-of-social-cognition-research-as-a-basis-of-policy/): Foreign Policy: Why Hawks Win Why are hawks so influential? The answer may lie deep in the human mind . People have dozens of decision-making biases, and almost all favor confli… - [Logic and conceptual frames](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/01/04/logic-and-conceptual-frames/): Amazon Online Reader : Marriage, a History: From Obedience to Intimacy, or How Love Conquered Marriage p. 82 The sexual double standard was so completely accepted by Romans that… - [Elites as maintainers of conservative values](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/01/01/elites-as-maintainers-of-conservative-values/): BBC - Radio 4 - Today - 20006 Vote The Hunting Act with 52.8% Dangerous Dogs Act: 1.6% Serious Organised Crime and Police Act : 6.2% Human Rights Act: 6.1% European Communities … - [Marriage and the impact of scholarship on society](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2007/01/01/marriage-and-the-impact-of-scholarship-on-society/): BBC - Radio 4 Woman's Hour -Has Love Conquered Marriage? For the first time ever, married-couple households are in the minority both in the UK and the US, outnumbered by single-… - [New societies and old societies](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/12/28/new-societies-and-old-societies/): TIME.com: Time's Person of the Year: You -- Dec. 25, 2006 -- Page 1 America loves its solitary geniuses—its Einsteins, its Edisons, its Jobses—but those lonely dreamers may have… - [Free Market Doctrines: From analogy to ritual](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/12/17/free-market-doctrines-from-analogy-to-ritual/): A Renaissance of the Commons | Nick Lewis: The Blog Cultures, like people, can run out of ideas. They can exhaust themselves in the face of events and ideas they can no longer p… - [Left Behind Games: The moral frames of evangelical Christianity](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/12/17/left-behind-games-the-moral-frames-of-evangelical-christianity/): Left Behind Games The storyline in the game begins just after the Rapture has occurred – when all adult Christians, all infants, and many children were instantly swept home to… - [Framing the Civil War](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/12/05/on-the-media-transcript-of/): On The Media: Transcript of "Paper Wait" (December 1, 2006) BROOKE GLADSTONE: So why not then stick to “sectarian violenceâ€?? What changed? BILL KELLER: You know, it’s kind… - [Image schemas blends and new technologies](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/12/03/image-schemas-blends-and-new-technologies/): Column by PC Magazine: Our Modern World—Weirder by the Minute DIGITAL CAMERA ARM STRETCH. Okay, let's get to the meat of this essay. Perhaps the weirdest societal change has to … - [Images of cummulative causation and a theory of education](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/11/29/images-of-cummulative-causation-and-a-theory-of-education/): November 17, 2006, Hour Two: The Family that Couldn't Sleep / The Artist and the Mathematician Starting in the 1930s, Nicolas Bourbaki published dozens of papers, becoming a fam… - [On making sense of](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/11/29/on-making-sense-of/): On The Media: Transcript of "The Power of Myth" (November 24, 2006) ANA MARIE COX: Well, I think that Joe is a provocative thinker and a great reporter. He was really early out … - [Education reform, memory, skill and secondary socialization](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/11/04/education-reform-memory-skill-and-secondary-socialization/): Malaysian National News Agency :: BERNAMA PEKAN, Nov 4 Bernama -- Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak has called for the countrys memory-based education system to be replaced with one th… - [Accepted, the review - Images of the educational process in popular culture](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/10/31/accepted-the-review-images-of-the-educational-process-in-popular-culture/): From the Wikipedia entry : Accepted is a 2006 comedy motion picture about a group of high school seniors who, after being rejected from all colleges to which they had applied, c… - [Wikipedia - the Original Encyclopedia](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/10/31/wikipedia-the-original-encyclopedia/): BBC - Radio 4 In Our Time - Home Page the mammoth undertaking that was the Encyclopédie – one of its editors, D’Alembert, described its mission as giving an overview of knowledg… - [Of dicks and doves: Team America cognitive semireview](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/10/29/of-dicks-and-doves/): YouTube - Team America Finale Speech PhatGun (3 months ago) HAHAHAHAHHAHAHA SO TRUE!!! Tomster22 (19 hours ago) Neo-Cons = Dicks, Peacenicks = Pussies, Islamo-Fascists = Asshole… - [Tom Waits and the surface of text](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/10/29/tom-waits-and-the-surface-of-text/): ANTI- Album - Orphans What’s Orphans? I don’t know. Orphans is a dead end kid driving a coffin with big tires across the Ohio River wearing welding goggles and a wife beater wit… - [Trouble in Ambridge: Optical illusions and hypostesized narratives](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/10/27/trouble-in-ambridge-optical-illusion-and-hypostesized-narratives/): BBC - Radio 4 - Feedback Love quadrangle Things have been getting very steamy in the cowshed at Brookfield lately and Archers listeners who've written to Feedback talk of sensat… - [Revenge of the Nerds (1984) - Review 1](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/10/24/revenge-of-the-nerds-1984/): Revenge of the Nerds (1984) They've been laughed at, picked on and put down. But now it's time for the odd to get even! I decided it's time to start keeping track of my frequent… - [Analogies in public discourse: Negotiation of Frames and Hypostasis of Channels](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/10/21/analogies-in-public-discourse-negotiation-of-frames-and-hypostasis-of-channels/): Buzz Out Loud: CNET's podcast of indeterminate length on CNET.com [ click here to listen to clip ] recently featured this fascinating discussion of analogies. A caller suggests … - [Localized textual performance in everyday narrative](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/10/21/localized-textual-performance-in-everyday-narrative/): 14 WFIE, The Tri-State's News Leader: Manhunt Ends, Baby Found Safe A fugitive couple who hid in a camper are now behind bars. The kidnapped baby is safe, and the funeral for th… - [YouTube of the 1890s](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/10/21/youtube-of-the-1890s/): BBC - Radio 4 - Archive Hour - 21 October 2006 Matthew Parris uncovers the remarkable story of the Electrophone, the first sound broadcasting service to operate in Britain. Elec… - [Psychological violence, cuts, bruises and world peace](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/10/20/psychological-violence-cuts-bruises-and-world-peace/): Evening News 24 - Cyclist attacked by An N&N spokesman said: “According to sources this gang has been doing this for a while - stopping people at the bridge and demanding mone… - [Is mathematics an empirical science?](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/10/19/is-mathematics-an-empirical-science/): Maths has the reputation of a a 'pure' discipline which sets both the practice and essence of mathematics apart from all other fields of inquiry. Mathematicians often use this '… - [Local grammars and space exploration](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/10/06/local-grammars-and-space-exploration/): One small word is one giant sigh of relief for Armstrong “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind,â€? they heard him say as he dropped from the ladder of h… - [Frame negotiation on the media](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/10/03/frame-negotiation-on-the-media/): On The Media-- The War in Iraq = Iraqi Civil War ETHAN BRONNER: Our policy is not to label it a civil war. We recognize and describe elements of civil war in what's going on in … - [Accuracy of metaphor and debates](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/09/16/accuracy-of-metaphor-and-debates/): On The Media-- Eau-Stained Wretch BOB GARFIELD:: He describes another perfume as, quote, "sweeping over you like the silent, massive shadow of an Airbus A340, and yet another is… - [Scenarios behind education](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/08/24/scenarios-behind-education/): Bearing witness to a teacher's task - The Boston Globe Many people believe they know what makes effective schools because they have attended school. This is akin to saying I am … - [Scenarios behind technology and education debate](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/08/22/scenarios-behind-technology-and-education-debate/): The Books Google Could Open The nation's colleges and universities should support Google's controversial project to digitize great libraries and offer books online. It has the p… - [Framing in perceptions of news bias](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/08/11/framing-in-perceptions-of-news-bias/): On The Media-- I Know You Are But What Am I? SHANKAR VEDANTAM: [The study] just showed six television clips of the conflict to 144 observers, some of whom were pro-Israeli and s… - [Jazz in America/Classical in Europe: Functional equivalence](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/08/11/jazz-in-americaclassical-in-europe-functional-equivalence/): NPR : Roundtable: The Future of Jazz Radio News & Notes with Ed Gordon, August 10, 2006 · Some experts say the jazz radio format is in crisis. Some of the few stations devoted t… - [Gender models and types of evidence for them](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/08/02/gender-models-and-types-of-evidence-for-them/): MercuryNews.com | 07/31/2006 | Internet raises gender gap This gender gap, which affects everything from the marketing of new technology to attracting more women for engineering… - [Values and statements about education](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/07/24/values-and-statements-about-education/): BostonHerald.com - Opinion & Editorial: Education studies show: $$ wasted on them Choice, competition and freedom are core values that define what we are about as a nation. The … - [Language awareness as part of linguistic competence](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/07/09/language-awareness-as-part-of-linguistic-competence/): 'Google' becomes an official verb - ZDNet UK News Though you may have been "googling" people for years, the verb you were using was technically slang, until recently. In fact, m… - [Rationality and immigration](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/05/23/rationality-and-immigration/): English is Spoken Here - Yahoo! News The second dumbest statement in the debate over Senate legislation establishing English as the national language came from Sen. Ken Salazar … - [Limes Americanum - the symbolic and the practical in US foreign relations](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/05/22/limes-americanum-the-symbolic-and-the-practical-in-us-foreign-relations/): Czech lobby in Washington takes a second seat to Poland - 22-05-2006 - Radio Prague There are three criteria that countries must fulfil in order to qualify for the proposed amen… - [Linguistic nationalism and the USA](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/05/20/linguistic-nationalism-and-the-usa/): CNN.com - 'National' or 'common'? Senate ponders what to call English - May 19, 2006 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Whether English is America's "national language" or its national "common … - [Role of examples in social debate and research](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/05/17/role-of-examples-in-social-research/): Cartoon Warfare (Ann Applebaum, WP) In recent years "the personal is political," a phrase whose origins are lost deep in the history of the women's movement, has among other thi… - [Beginning of History](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/05/14/beginning-of-history/): Liberalism and Western style democracy have not been able to help realize the ideals of humanity. Today these two concepts have failed. Those with insight can already hear the s… - [Feminism as Islam](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/05/11/feminism-as-islam/): Feminismus jako islám Muslimové mají obecně rádi feministky asi stejně jako feministky muslimy. Přesto je feminismus jako islám. ProÄ?? Protože: a) islám je hlubokým … - [Extension of 'diversity' as a conservationist metaphor](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/04/27/cbc-radio-quirks-quarks-april-8-2006/): CBC Radio | Quirks & Quarks | April 8, 2006 Heading into the 21st Century, our planet is undergoing rapid change. Species are disappearing daily, and along with them human langu… - [Research-generated assonant symmetries, equal gender rights and global sexual satisfaction](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/04/27/npr-global-sex-survey-satisfied-in-the-west/): NPR : Global Sex Survey: Satisfied in the West A groundbreaking international sex survey reveals that couples in Western countries are the most sexually satisfied, while countri… - [Feminism and computer gaming](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/04/24/feminism-and-computer-gaming/): Wired News: How Lara Croft Steals Hearts I think young boy gamers loved Lara for reasons that were considerably stranger. They weren't just ogling her: They were identifying wit… - [Cadences and harmonies of verbal and dramatic narratives](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/01/25/cadences-and-harmonies-of-verbal-and-dramatic-narratives/): Several years before his death, the famous Estonian semiotician Yuriy Lotman came to Prague and the thing that I still remember from his talk is an admonition that boundaries ar… - [Periodicity of nationalist conservatism: A hypothesis to be tested](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/01/25/periodicity-of-nationalist-conservatism-a-hypothesis-to-be-tested/): I was just listening to the UK Prime Minister's Question Time. I don't do it very often, because the questions and answers are predictable in content and not particularly inform… - [Multiple perspectives-models-stories in fiction and science](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/01/24/multiple-perspectives-models-stories-in-fiction-and-science/): AfterEllen.com - The L Word's Vanishing Bisexual The L Word’s representation of bisexuality reflects popular and sometimes opposing ideas about bisexuality. One belief--repres… - [Geena Davis and the importance of individual role-model narratives](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/01/17/geena-davis-and-the-importance-of-individual-role-model-narratives/): CNN.com - Quotes from the Golden Globes - Jan 16, 2006 "As I was coming in, I felt a little tug at my skirt. And I looked, and there was a little girl maybe 8 or 10 in her first… - [Semantic prosody of web design](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/01/17/semantic-prosody-of-web-design/): Technology News: E-Commerce: Study: Poor Web Design Alienates Customers One twentieth of a second. That's about how long it takes for a Web site Get Linux or Windows Managed Hos… - [Prejudice, shared meanings, local grammars and Google as a resource for research](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/01/16/prejudice-shared-meanings-local-grammars-and-google-as-a-resource-for-research/): The Prejudice Map The Prejudice Map According to Google, people in the world are known for... Here's an interesting 'mash up' of Google's API that supposedly answers the questio… - [Franklin and the complexities of American national identity](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/01/15/franklin-and-the-complexities-of-american-national-identity/): January 13, 2006, Science Friday = Franklin at 300 Franklin as inventor, socialite and statesman, and take a look at the Tercentenary Exhibition in his honor, now open in Philad… - [Wired News: Military Women Can Hack It](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/01/13/wired-news-military-women-can-hack-it/): Wired News: Military Women Can Hack It Female soldiers have long fought off perceptions that their bodies just aren't equipped to handle the rigors of training and warfare. But … - [Self-organization of iconic linguistic items](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/01/10/self-organization-of-iconic-linguistic-items/): The Aargh Page # Not surpisingly, "argh" is much more frequent than any of the alternatives, and the items with fewer 'a's or 'r's are more frequent than their longer neighbors.… - [Nature of the predictions genre](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/01/09/nature-of-the-predictions-genre/): On The Media-- NAMING RIGHT The key variables that differentiated the titles that had been number-one bestsellers from the titles that had failed to be were whether the title wa… - [News reporting as a cognitive (speech) act](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/01/09/news-reporting-as-a-cognitive-speech-act/): ABC News: Sharon Reportedly Moves One of His Hands The headline is the only thing of interest here. It is an example of several things. On the one hand, it shows how easily a pe… - [Public interest, public interestedness and the self-organization of need](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/01/09/public-interest-public-interestedness-and-the-self-organization-of-need/): ABC News: Sharon Reportedly Moves One of His Hands One headline, two blog posts. What value! There seems to be a fine line between what is in the public interest and what the pu… - [Social hypostasis of linguistic items](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/01/09/the-gif-pronunciation-page/): The GIF Pronunciation Page The GIF graphics file format was invented by CompuServe in 1987. In the years since, a debate has been raging as to the correct way to pronounce "GIF"… - [Transformation of symbols across cultural borders](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/01/09/transformation-of-symbols-across-cultural-borders/): NPR : Muslim Migrants, 'Embracing the Infidel' Author Behzad Yaghmaian spent two years traveling with Muslim migrants and collected their stories on safe houses, bribes, police … - [Urban Legends as examples of folk theories and cognitive models](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/01/09/urban-legends-as-examples-of-folk-theories-and-cognitive-models/): Urban Legends Reference Pages: College (The Unsolvable Math Problem) This legend combines one of the ultimate academic wish-fulfillment fantasies — a student not only proves him… - [City as metaphor for visual aspects online design](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/01/06/a-list-apart-articles-thinking-outside-the-grid/): A List Apart: Articles: Thinking Outside the Grid Because I’d been thinking about this article for some time, the aerial view of these cities struck me as an apt metaphor for … - [Discover Music through The Music Genome Project by Pandora](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/01/06/discover-music-through-the-music-genome-project-by-pandora/): There are two analogies in this post! What great value. Discover Music through The Music Genome Project by Pandora Together we set out to capture the essence of music at the mos… - [Florida high court kills school voucher program](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/01/06/florida-high-court-kills-school-voucher-program/): Florida high court kills school voucher program In a ruling expected to reverberate through battles over school choice in many states, the Florida Supreme Court on Thursday stru… - [Are printed books dead? God I hope so!](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/01/04/are-printed-books-dead-god-i-hope-so/): iRex : The iLiad Digital written content can now be read as easily and conveniently as the printed word on paper. The iRex Technologies E-reader provides true reading comfort, f… - [Analogies and blends - new category old ideas](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2006/01/01/analogies-new-category-old-ideas/): I thought, I might add another category for the new year. analogies. This springs from two separate and seemingly conflicting tendencies in my intellectual life. One is to expos… - [Conceptualizing gender differences in behavior](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/12/29/conceptualizing-gender-differences-in-behavior/): ABC News: Male Domination of the Internet Is Over, Study Finds The study says 68 percent of men and 66 percent of women now go online. Since women make up a larger portion of th… - [Towards a cognitive morphology of the folktale](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/12/29/towards-a-cognitive-morphology-of-the-folktale/): Propp and other formalists had many things figured out quite right. Then the structuralists came and elevated emergent properties to the level of meaning creation. This post is … - [Complexities of representation of women in traditional narrative](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/12/25/complexities-of-representation-of-women-in-traditional-narrative/): Christmas season's TV brings a lot of classic stories back to people's narrative environment. Many of these contain complex and multilayered representations of humanity's quest … - [Creation of meaning and music analogies](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/12/25/creation-of-meaning-and-music-analogies/): Now, here's an analogy that occured to me as I was pondering the indeterminacy of the meaning of some technical term in social science (I think it was metaphor). But it occurred… - [New category: Feminism](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/12/25/new-category-feminism/): I realized that I needed another category dealing with issues related to the position of women in society and cognition. I decided to call it feminism in protest against the fre… - [Individuality and culturality of psychotherapeutic needs](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/12/20/individuality-and-culturality-of-psychotherapeutic-needs/): BBC - Radio 4 - All in the Mind It's just under a year since the Tsunami devastated coastal communities around the Indian Ocean . Raj reports from his recent visit to the Tamil … - [Parents' role in education - framing in practice](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/12/20/parents-role-in-education-framing-in-practice/): BBC - Radio 4 - Woman's Hour -Phone-in: parents and schools A recent survey from the Department of Education shows that parents are increasingly unhappy with their local schools… - [Determinism and evidentiary value of belief based on personal experience](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/12/19/determinism-and-evidentiary-value-of-belief-based-on-personal-experience/): BBC - Five Live - Mark Kermode film reviews included this and last week an interesting exchange. First, the reviewer claimed that watching the film The March of the Penguin make… - [Expertise and suitability for policy responsibilities](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/12/19/expertise-and-suitability-for-policy-responsibilities/): Another great interview on onthemedia.org. This one dealing with the reliability of expert predictions (in the media and in general). On The Media-- THE GUESSING GAME PHILIP TET… - [New home](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/12/18/new-home/): My Week in Thought has found a new home right here. - [CADAAD - Conference on Discourse Analysis](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/12/15/cadaad-conference-on-discourse-analysis/): I am coorganizing a conference Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines (CADAAD) to be held at the University of East Anglia on June 29-30, 2006. The first c… - [Consequences of video games - and the cognitive aspects of data interpretation](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/12/14/consequences-of-video-games-and-the-cognitive-aspects-of-data-interpretation/): The Video Game Revolution: "Eight Myths About Video Games Debunked" by Henry Jenkins | PBS The availability of video games has led to an epidemic of youth violence. According to… - [My Week In Thought and Hermeneutic Suspicion](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/12/14/my-week-in-thought-and-hermeneutic-suspicion/): My Week In Thought This PBS essay neatly summarizes almost all the arguments I would ever make - or in some cases have made - in defense of video gaming. OK, there may be a fine… - [There's no Wikipedia entry for 'moral responsibility' | The Register](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/12/12/theres-no-wikipedia-entry-for-moral-responsibility-the-register/): There's no Wikipedia entry for 'moral responsibility' | The Register The first, and the most immediately absurd of these two defenses, is that since nothing at all can be truste… - [Perspective and data in historical analysis](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/12/11/perspective-and-data-in-historical-analysis/): Introduction Imagine that two millenia or so in the future, literary experts attempt to collect the glories of our literature. Most of our paper writings have crumbled into dust… - [Online scholarship](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/12/10/online-scholarship/): "I've read the internet, and it's rubbish" - a comedian on a BBC Radio 4 show. In this essay, I will diagram exactly how this happened, but also include some speculation as to h… - [Complexities of women's rights](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/12/08/complexities-of-womens-rights/): BBC - Radio 4 - Today Programme Listen Again David Cameron promised to tackle the lack of women MPs from his party. What can he do? Audio here An interesting discussion of three… - [Conceptual integration and the creation of news](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/12/08/conceptual-integration-and-the-creation-of-news/): On The Media-- OFF-YEAR COVERAGE The President gave a major speech on Wednesday, and TV news reacted. For every story there's a formula, whether earthquake, missing child, sex s… - [Cultural images of the powerless](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/12/08/cultural-images-of-the-powerless/): One article, two thoughts . Good going! TPM Online Article One of the things you notice, both as a skeptic and as an American in the UK , is that according to the British media … - [How we should judge torture - Los Angeles Times](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/12/08/how-we-should-judge-torture-los-angeles-times/): How we should judge torture - Los Angeles Times Naturally, human rights groups are appalled by the suggestion that harsh treatment is ever justified. Similarly, blogger Andrew S… - [Reliability of common wisdom - models and power](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/12/08/reliability-of-common-wisdom-models-and-power/): TPM Online Article So: whom to believe? There seems to be no doubt, as these authors and recent research suggest, that there's a genetic component to obesity. Nor is there any d… - [Salient cases and social causality](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/12/08/salient-cases-and-social-causality/): The great 'On the Media' had an interview with 'the devil' - Bill Kristol of the Weekly Standard. But he did bring up an interesting point regarding the actual influence of the … - [Navigating the 'human terrain' - Los Angeles Times](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/12/07/navigating-the-human-terrain-los-angeles-times/): Navigating the 'human terrain' - Los Angeles Times THE U.S. ARMED forces have a problem. They have the technical capability to hit any target on the planet. But which targets sh… - [Universal preschool's and cause and effect in education](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/12/07/universal-preschools-and-cause-and-effect-in-education/): Universal preschool's big payoff - Los Angeles Times IT HAS LONG been an American article of faith that early schooling for poor children can work wonders. A word-rich classroom… - [Anthropology.net | Beyond bones & stones](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/12/05/anthropologynet-beyond-bones-stones/): Anthropology.net | Beyond bones & stones Anthropology is defined as the study of humankind and their origins throughout different places and times. The study focuses in detail o… - ['Gay weddings' become law in UK](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/12/05/gay-weddings-become-law-in-uk/): BBC NEWS | UK | 'Gay weddings' become law in UK Hundreds of gay couples are preparing to form civil partnerships in the coming weeks as the law changes after decades of campaign… - [Kazakhstan and the principles of democracy](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/12/05/kazakhstan-and-the-principles-of-democracy/): World News Article | Reuters.co.uk Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev won re-election by a landslide on Monday, official preliminary results showed, but the opposition … - [Authors and texts](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/12/04/authors-and-texts/): Narnia's lion really is Jesus - Sunday Times - Times Online AN unpublished letter from the novelist C S Lewis has provided conclusive proof of the Christian message in his Narni… - [Common sense vs.hypocrisy](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/12/04/common-sense-vshypocrisy/): Be realistic about death penalty: PM - National Breaking News - Breaking News 24/7 - NEWS.com.au "But I think we have to be a little bit realistic in suggesting that the Governm… - [Identity and modularity](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/12/04/identity-and-modularity/): news @ nature.com - Mind trick 'whittles the waist' - Illusion helps scientists to spot brain regions that shape our body image. Scientists have harnessed a perceptual trick kno… - [Challenges facing feminism in post-communist Czech Republic](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/12/03/challenges-facing-feminism-in-post-communist-czech-republic/): iDNES.cz - Nový zákon přesně urÄ?uje, co je sexuální obtěžování Nový trestní zákon, který přijali poslanci tento týden, zavádí trestný Ä?in, který přesně d… - [Digitizing literature and styles of reading](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/12/03/digitizing-literature-and-styles-of-reading/): Digitizing literature - The Boston Globe But the act of reading a great book requires something of the reader: time. A book must be ''read," it can't be background noise nor can… - [Fiction as a resource for academic inquiry](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/12/03/fiction-as-a-resource-for-academic-inquiry/): John Grishamm, The Broker Sure, this is a great book that fulfills all the prerequisite of its genre in a way that allows the reader to probe some of the possibilities of depth.… - [A Man's Right to Choose - A Feminist Issue?](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/12/02/a-mans-right-to-choose-a-feminist-issue/): A Man's Right to Choose - New York Times NOBODY is arguing that we should let my friend who impregnated his girlfriend off the hook. If you play, you must pay. But if you pay, y… - [Conceptual consequences](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/12/02/conceptual-consequences/): Nature or nurture? - The Boston Globe Well, it turns out that the more you believe homosexuality is innate, the more accepting you are of gay rights. A full 79 percent of people… - [Culture wars and personal identity](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/12/02/culture-wars-and-personal-identity/): Conservative U. -- in cyberspace - Los Angeles Times FIFTEEN YEARS AGO, conservatives saw a country that was split about 50-50 between the left and the right, as it is today and… - [Death penalty: Time to rethink? :: The Daily Herald, Provo Utah](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/12/02/death-penalty-time-to-rethink-the-daily-herald-provo-utah/): Death penalty: Time to rethink? :: The Daily Herald, Provo Utah Capital punishment does send a message that society will not tolerate brutal murders. Some killers, certainly, wo… - [Why is the 'new' UK drive toward synthetic phonics ridiculous](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/12/01/why-is-the-new-uk-drive-toward-synthetic-phonics-ridiculous/): BBC NEWS | Education | Primary reading set for overhaul The way children are taught to read in primary schools in England needs to be changed, says a government review. It has b… - [Some remarks on individualism and collectivism](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/11/30/bbc-thought-for-the-day-29-november-2005/): BBC - Thought for the Day, 29 November 2005 Should the aid workers [recently kidnapped] still have been in Iraq? I was struck yesterday by the different perspective of those com… - [Why school achievement isn't reaching the poor - The Boston Globe](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/11/30/why-school-achievement-isnt-reaching-the-poor-the-boston-globe/): Why school achievement isn't reaching the poor - The Boston Globe Other research in places like Dallas and Houston that show how high-poverty students are so much more likely to… - [Labor's Lost Story](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/11/29/labors-lost-story/): A column about labor relations and automotive job losses. Labor's Lost Story Almost everybody right of center sees the job losses as inevitable, the result of the American auto … - [Terror's stealth weapon: women - Los Angeles Times](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/11/29/terrors-stealth-weapon-women-los-angeles-times/): Terror's stealth weapon: women - Los Angeles Times The stereotype exploited by terrorists is that women are gentle, submissive and nonviolent. Women evade most terrorist profile… - [Managing social processes vs. managing the context of social processes](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/11/28/managing-social-processes-vs-managing-the-context-of-social-processes/): The Very Foundation of Conservatism - New York Times The Olin Foundation's leaders understood that success is often unplanned, and so they focused on creating the conditions for… - [Real literacy?](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/11/28/real-literacy/): Killing the written word by snippets - Los Angeles Times Students are trading in books for search-and-seizure learning on the Internet, and real literacy is getting lost along t… - [Speed of technological progress and social effects](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/11/28/speed-of-technological-progress-and-social-effects/): iDNES.cz - Å est Å¡kůdců, kteří zaruÄ?eně zniÄ?í váš poÄ?ítaÄ? Pokud nenastane zvrat v použitých technologiích, za 15 let budou procesory a grafické Ä?ipy vyzařova… - [There's no 'good' divorce - The Boston Globe](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/11/28/theres-no-good-divorce-the-boston-globe/): There's no 'good' divorce - The Boston Globe Many experts and parents embrace the idea, confident that it's not divorce itself that harms children but simply the way that parent… - [Models in professional knowledge](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/11/27/models-in-professional-knowledge/): Unexpected countenance of change - The Boston Globe SOMEONE, a psychiatrist, discouragingly once said that people don't change very much, but the little ways they change, when t… - [Discrepancies in Testing](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/11/26/discrepancies-in-testing/): Students Ace State Tests, but Earn D's From U.S. - New York Times A comparison of state test results against the latest National Assessment of Educational Progress, a federal te… - ["Intellectual defense of xenophobia"](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/11/26/intellectual-defense-of-xenophobia/): www.lidovky.cz - Intelektuální obrana xenofobie Podle Huntingtona dezinterpretovali liberální multikulturalisté 70. a 80. let povahu Ameriky, když ji líÄ?ili jako kulturn… - [The American Dream and varieties of national self-esteem](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/11/25/the-american-dream-and-varieties-of-national-self-esteem/): Replant the American Dream When I lived abroad, Thanksgiving was always my favorite holiday. It was a chance to scrounge up a turkey, gather foreign and American friends, and ce… - [They Held Their Noses, and Ate - New York Times](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/11/24/they-held-their-noses-and-ate-new-york-times/): They Held Their Noses, and Ate - New York Times Proper notions of English husbandry generally demanded that flesh be domesticated, grain neatly planted and fruit and vegetables … - [Values, rules, patterns and theories of social causation](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/11/23/bbc-news-politics-a-third-of-pubs-to-open-longer/): BBC NEWS | Politics | 'A third of pubs' to open longer About one-third of all the pubs, clubs and shops in England and Wales licensed to sell alcohol are to get longer opening h… - [On some mental representations of personal identity](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/11/23/some-mental-representations-of-personal-identity/): Who would have thought that a simple misspelling of a person's name would cost me so much time. But it did happen and it was an entirely my fault. A friend whose name is pronoun… - [Turning academia into a cafeteria - Los Angeles Times](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/11/23/turning-academia-into-a-cafeteria-los-angeles-times/): Turning academia into a cafeteria - Los Angeles Times DECADES AGO, I clutched an official New York state examination booklet as a proctor threatened me and hundreds of my nervou… - [Ad-hoc metaphors as cohesive devices](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/11/22/ad-hoc-metaphors/): Bring Democracy to Congress Perhaps we should redeploy the democracy experts we have sent to the Middle East and ask them to work on our Congress. The past few days have confirm… - [Laws of social and natural sciences](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/11/22/laws-of-social-and-natural-sciences/): Senators are blowing smoke on gas - Los Angeles Times Unless they can repeal the law of supply and demand, they can't do a thing about prices. ... Gas, like everything else, has… - [Marx's and Darwin's accomplishments: Finding the mechanism of evolution and social change?](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/11/22/marxs-and-darwins-accomplishments-finding-the-mechanism-of-evolution-and-social-change/): Here's definitely a podcast worth listening to ! Niles Eldredge and Edward J. Larson discuss the upcoming Darwin exhibit and Darwin's legacy. Particularly their discussion of Da… - [Possible cognitive and affective implications of the new media paradigm shift](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/11/22/possible-cognitive-and-affective-implications-of-the-new-media-paradigm-shift/): A Library for The New World Digitized, instant communication is the great technological revolution of our time. It has streamlined business and delivered more information more q… - [Socio-economic trends in interaction](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/11/22/socio-economic-trends-in-interaction/): BBC NEWS | In Depth | The Thatcher years in statistics It is 15 years since Margaret Thatcher resigned as prime minister. Use this graphical guide to see how life in Britain cha… - [Thatcher's role for women and the influence of women in politics on women's rights](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/11/22/thatchers-role-for-women-and-the-influence-of-women-in-politics-on-womens-rights/): BBC NEWS | Politics | Thatcher's role for women Patricia Hewitt, a minister Tony Blair's Cabinet, told the BBC News website: "Margaret Thatcher broke through the glass ceiling i… - [Access vs. close-reading journalism as a metaphor for educational standards](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/11/21/access-vs-close-reading-journalism-as-a-metaphor-for-educational-standards/): Access Holy Wood - On the Media BROOKE GLADSTONE: Ah, Watergate, the gift that keeps on giving. But aside from Woodward's access to well-placed anonymous sources, there's little… - [More on theory and fact (medicine and ritual)](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/11/21/more-on-theory-and-fact/): There was an interesting discussion on the BBC's Today Programme (click for audio) over some recent Lancet-published study doubting the efficiency of homeopathic treatments vs. … - [Oral vs. written tradition and new technologies](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/11/21/oral-vs-written-tradition-and-new-technologies/): Portable Media Expo and Podcasting Conference Saturday Sessions Audible's CEO Don Katz's keynote address at the Podcast Expo brought together very many interesting points regard… - [The Bosnian Example for Iraq](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/11/21/the-bosnian-example-for-iraq/): It's hard to avoid the comparison between the country [Bosnia] deemed a quagmire in the 1990s and the one where the United States is bogged down today. Start with the U.S. and o… - [The rituals and mythic nature of democracy and the press](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/11/21/the-rituals-and-mythic-nature-of-democracy/): The fall of Bob Woodward - The Boston Globe The free press is an absolute value not only because the unfettered flow of information is essential to the republican system, nor on… - [Some misconceptions by the defenders of the Theory of Evolution](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/11/18/reason-fact-and-fiction-on-evolution-intelligent-designs-five-favorite-myths/): Evolution is, in fact, the foundation of the entire science of modern biology and much of modern medicine. No, there is no absolute ''proof" of evolution, but that's not how sci… - [Welcome to Dominik's Week in Thought](https://hermeneuticheretic.net/2005/11/17/welcome-to-dominiks-week-in-thought/): This is a blog (with the prospect of a podcast) that will track my thoughts on a variety of subjects as they come to me in my online life.