For a possible class project...

[bethbethbeth]

Do you guys have favorite essays? Any era or topic (but especially: Arts, Activism, History, Politics, Pop Culture or Science).

Online links or enough of a citation (author/title, at least) so I can track it down, please!

Thanks in advance. :)

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[iibnf]

Hope you have a great birthday!

[bethbethbeth]

Thank you!!

[geoviki]

Three random links because I don't know exactly what you might find useful:

50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice: http://chronicle.com/article/50-Years-of-Stupid-Grammar/25497

Why Have Young People in Japan Stopped Having Sex? http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/20/young-people-japan-stopped-having-sex

The Curious Case of the Game Show Neuroscientists http://mackle.wordpress.com/2009/09/03/the-curious-case-of-the-game-show-neuroscientists-or-how-not-to-research-an-online-community/

It was so great to see you again! Happy b'day!

[bethbethbeth]

Thank you!!

And yes, it was excellent. I wish we all lived closer :(

[goseaward]

If TED talks are okay, I have a list of some of my favorites here. (Looking at it now, I'd probably put the Adichie piece at #1 rather than the Abani.) Hasn't been updated lately--the signal-to-noise got too low around 2010 and I stopped watching the talks regularly. You might also like VS Ramachandran's talk on mirror neurons (which has some great storytelling as well as interesting science--9 mins) and the (scary) medical talks by Ben Goldacre and Brian Goldman.

I remember being quite fond of Orwell's Shooting an Elephant in high school.

One of the most emotionally difficult pieces I've ever read, but excellent: Fatal Distraction, telling the story of children who die after being left in hot cars--and of their parents.

[bethbethbeth]

Thank you!! (I'm especially interested in scary medical talks *g*)

just dropping by to say

[psyfic]

Re: just dropping by to say

[bethbethbeth]

Awwww! Thank you, hon.