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How Flame Wars Get Started
Please, don’t flame me! Though there is a specific context for this post, I prefer not talking about it. For once, context seems to matter less! Flame wars (FWs) are those personal confrontations which...
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Or “Edmonton is to Calgary as Austin is to Houston.” (Can’t remember how this form is called but it’s pretty common.) At the risk of inflaming some city rivalries, I propose that Edmonton and Austin...
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I did it! I did exactly what I’m usually trying to avoid. And I feel rather good about the outcome despite some potentially “ruffled feathers” («égos froissés»?). While writing a post about PRI’s The...
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Academics and Their Publics
Misunderstood by Raffi Asdourian Academics are misunderstood. Almost by definition. Pretty much any academic eventually feels that s/he is misunderstood. Misunderstandings about some core notions in...
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