Golf vs. the Wife in ICU

Sal Wallerstein was at the country club for his weekly round of golf. He began his round with an eagle on the first hole and a birdie on the second. On the third hole he had just scored his first ever hole-in-one when his cell phone rang… It was a doctor notifying him that his [...]

Wisdom of Yoda

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Culturomics and Ngrams

Dear gentle blog reader, Learned something new today about cultoromics and Ngrams: To borrow from the Bard, what’s in a word? When and how often a word is used in literature says a lot about culture, society and trends, claim researchers who created a computer program to analyze words and phrases in millions of books. [...]

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