One thing is clear: Christmas traditions differ in every country in which they are celebrated. The pre-Christian Germanic peoples centered their winter celebration, Yule (which…
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Robin Williams photo credit: Dan Dion When I first encountered Set List: Stand-Up Without A Net, I felt the same satirical spirit I’ve experienced in…
by Victor Adedayo Abstract This paper uses analogies to establish visualized connections between football and citation analysis as used to compute impact factor in…
by David Comfort “Forget grammar and think about potatoes.” Gertrude Stein In 1918, Cornell professor, William Strunk, Jr., self-published The Elements of Style. In the…
By Dan Geddes
If the recent leaks about the NSA’s surveillance of all worldwide electronic communications have left you upset or confused, then you may be experiencing one of the five stages of NSA surveillance grief.
Much like Kuebler-Ross’ Five Stages of Grieving about death, the Five Stages of NSA Surveillance Grief shows the natural phases that individuals go through after learning that the US government has had complete access to all their electronic communications for many years.
By Dan Geddes Darkness. Rain. Punishing winds. Gray skies. “Oh God, when will it end?” These are some of the words that come to mind…
by Starr Sackstein, MJE and concerned city school teacher _______ With new initiatives changing like hygienic people change their undergarments, little success can be expected…
By Dan Geddes Gossip is a form of legal tender, a social coinage we enjoy spending or saving as we would any other form of currency.…
By Dan Geddes This winter Amsterdam’s canals froze over for the first time since 1997. The ice was deemed safe enough to skate on, and…
by Dan Geddes Like many Amsterdam residents, my family does not have a back garden, and so during warm summer days, when we wish to…
by Dan Geddes They say you can get the best apple-pie in Amsterdam on Saturday at the little café on the Noordermarkt. I get mine…
Not German. That’s the first thing they tell you, in the Dutch language books and everywhere else. Well, it’s really not. Linguists even date Dutch…
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