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Parenting in England, 1760-1830

Parenting in England 1760-1830: Emotion, Identity and GenerationJoanne BaileyOxford University Press 277pp £65We know surprisingly little about the history of parenting, given its centrality to human experience. There is no lack of easy generalisations ... [Published History Today - 3 hours ago]
First reported Jun 18 2013 - Updated Jun 18 2013 - 1 reports

Betting On 'Table Stakes'

It's one of those gambling phrases that seems, like gambling places, to be popping up more and more. A recent Boston Business Journal story speaks of table stakes "for enterprise mobility." Around 90 percent of Americans favored the passage of some sort ... [Published NPR - Jun 18 2013]
First reported Jun 18 2013 - Updated Jun 18 2013 - 1 reports

Stilly Crying for Freedom

Battle Cry of Freedom, James M. McPherson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the Civil War, may be the finest one-volume history of any American war ever written, let alone the Civil War. Its publication twenty-five years ago was a publishing phenomenon. ... [Published Daily Beast - Jun 18 2013]
First reported Jun 17 2013 - Updated Jun 18 2013 - 1 reports

'Tweet' added to Oxford English Dictionary

And yes, the definition is less than 140 characters.EnlargeThe Oxford English Dictionary along with the Oxford American College Dictionary are published by Oxford University Press. (Nicholas Kamm/AFP/)The word "tweet" can now be found in the illustrious ... [Published GlobalPost - Jun 17 2013]
First reported Jun 13 2013 - Updated Jun 13 2013 - 1 reports

Congress is wrecked

We know Congress is broken. Really broken. Health care, immigration, civil rights. But many of us on the outside don't know just how badly broken it is, and we have only vague spectator ideas of how to fix it. What we do know is what we want, which is ... [Published The Portland Phoenix - Jun 13 2013]
First reported Jun 13 2013 - Updated Jun 13 2013 - 1 reports

MadMeta success

Birmingham Fellow Dr Justin Clarke-Doane to present at the 2013 Wisconsin Metaethics Workshop.We are delighted to hear that Clarke-Doane's paper 'Debunking Arguments: Genealogical and Explanatory' has been accepted for Professor Russ Shafer-Landau's tenth ... [Published University of Birmingham - Jun 13 2013]
First reported Jun 13 2013 - Updated Jun 13 2013 - 1 reports

Experts from Rutgers-Camden: Human Gene Patent

Edin Velez talks about his fascination with human faces and how James Joyce influenced his work....Computer scientists Amelie Marian and Thu D. Nguyen received a grant from Google to develop a personal data system that draws from social media pages, personal ... [Published Noodls - Jun 13 2013]
First reported Jun 12 2013 - Updated Jun 12 2013 - 1 reports

Flex your writing muscles with OUP

The Oxford University Press has announced an English short story writing competition. The winners will get published in a book that will be launched at the Karachi Literature Festival 2014. The stories must be written on the following topics: The meaning ... [Published The News International - Jun 12 2013]
First reported Jun 06 2013 - Updated Jun 06 2013 - 3 reports

Drops of life: ‘New blood in KWSB could fix water woes’

KARACHI:The Karachi Water and Sewerage Board (KWSB) seems to be struggling to quench the thirst of a thriving city of 18 million people. One way it can improve the situation is to bring new blood on board, said Prof. Noman Ahmed, the chairperson of NED ... [Published The Express Tribune - Jun 06 2013]
First reported Jun 04 2013 - Updated Jun 04 2013 - 2 reports

Oxford University Press rips American psychiatry reveals the following 13 examples of moral corruption and quackery

Oxford University Press rips American psychiatry, reveals the following 13 examples of moral corruption and quackery Oxford University Press has laid it on the line when it comes to the fraud, moral corruption and pure quackery of American psychiatry.In ... [Published Big News Network - Jun 04 2013]
First reported May 31 2013 - Updated May 31 2013 - 3 reports

BBC Radio 2 Chris Evans 500 Words childrens writing competition: Trends analysed by Oxford University Press

If you've ever wondered what's going on inside your child's mind when they're scribbling a story - and if they're writing the same sort of creative tales as their peers - you might be about to find out.A children's writing competition run by for youngsters ... [Published This Is Money - May 31 2013]
First reported May 29 2013 - Updated May 29 2013 - 3 reports

Radio 2 and Oxford University Press unveil research into 500 WORDS entrants' language usage

(M2 PRESSWIRE via COMTEX) --Category: Radio 2Are you sitting comfortably? Then, we'll begin... Once upon a time, Chris Evans launched a short story competition for children on BBC Radio 2 called 500 WORDS. And the response? Well, it was magical!This year, ... [Published TradingCharts.com - May 29 2013]

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...His honors thesis was titled "They're here, they're queer, they're vulnerable: The American adolescent coming-out process." As a counseling psychology Ph D student at New York University, Michael cofacilitates a nationally funded longitudinal study of more than 1,100 LGBT...
According to the news editors, the research concluded: "The purpose of this review is to discuss the role of arginase in cardiovascular pathologies, its contribution to the development of several cardiovascular disease states and the feasibility of using arginase inhibition as a therapeutic strategy."
...increasingly used for the sequence-specific inhibition of gene expression by the cleavage of mRNAs encoding proteins of interest [Welch et al., "Expression of ribozymes in gene transfertransfer systems to modulate target RNA levels." Curr Opin Biotechnol. 1998 October; 9(5):486-96]...
...Democritus thought that people derive as much pleasure from scratching themselves as they do from having sex. Aristotle asked "Why are people ashamed to admit that they want to have sexual intercourse, whereas this is not the case with drinking or eating or other such things? Is it because most of our desires are for things we must have, some of them actually being essential for life, whereas sexual desire is a non-vital indulgence? (Ps.-Aristotle, Problems). Epicurus (yes, that Epicurus, the one who regarded pleasure as life's central purpose) said that "sexual intercourse has never done anyone any good and we should be content if it does us no actual harm" (Epicurus, frg. 62)."

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Making Sense Of Type Classification (Part 2) [Published Smashing Magazine - 1 hour ago]
    In the first installment of this two-part series on type classification, we covered the basics of type classification — the various methods people have used, why they are helpful, and a brief survey of type history, classifying and identifying ...
"A Social Dimension For A Changing European Uni... [Published Social Europe Journal - Jun 18 2013]
The problem with the concept of ‘Social Europe’ is that there is no one social model that applies. Moreover, there is a collective action problem for member states even if they wish to achieve a single model – a point discussed later. But without a ...
The Epistemology of Hatred: A Case Study of Iri... [Published 3quarksdaily - Jun 17 2013]
by Liam Heneghan  If I asked you to choose from among the several notable Irish William Kings who might possibly serve as first formulator of a hypothesis on the development of bog vegetation you might choose wrongly. The three candidates: William ...
Melissa Mohr: Bringing trench talk home [Published National Post | Full Comment » Full Comment - Jun 14 2013]
Chloe Cushman/National Post In a new book, Melissa Mohr traces the migration of cursing from the trenches to the homefront, to movies and TV. A young soldier comes home to his family after World War II. His grandmother asks him how his time in the ...
Melissa Mohr: The ancient words that tore Chris... [Published National Post | Full Comment » Full Comment - Jun 13 2013]
Chloe Cuhman/National Post In a new book, a historian tells the long history of swearing — from ‘By God’s Bones’ to ‘**** you’ In the Middle Ages, the equivalent of modern obscenity was not “foul words,” but oaths. Swearing then meant only one ...
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