Always coaching with his hands…
Rocky Mountain Loop
In 10 days, Don and I plan to leave for Grand Teton National Park, then north to Glacier, Banff and Jasper. From there, we’ll go east across Canada and south through Minnesota to home. We plan to be gone for three weeks.
Baseball Prospectus | Baseball ProGUESTus: Global Warming and Home Runs: Is There a Connection?
This scientist understands the power of a “news peg.” What will people be talking about? Figure that out, and you have a hook for teaching physics, and lots of other things. Add “global warming” and you get lots of hits.
Nathan is Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. After a long career doing collisions of subatomic particles, he now spends his time studying the collision of ash with cowhide. He maintains an oft-visited website devoted to all things related to the physics of baseball: go.illinois.edu/physicsofbaseball.
via Baseball Prospectus | Baseball ProGUESTus: Global Warming and Home Runs: Is There a Connection?.
Don’s post
This is for Don. Now I will take his picture.
First iPad post
This is an iPad post. I typed it
“Hopefully” is worth a story?
I was in New Orleans when it happened April 13, when the powers that be at the Associated Press announced that “hopefully” was OK to use however anybody wanted. The audience of American Copy Editors Society members may have been the only group in America who even knew that “hopefully” had standards of usage. But I was hungry for lunch. Maybe my news judgment was skewed by my hunger. I didn’t find that style rule change to be worth a story in the Washington Post. Hmm. The 225 commenters (so far) couldn’t be all wrong, I hope.
AP’s approval of ‘hopefully’ symbolizes larger debate over language – The Washington Post.
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Headline was verified
“Headless body in topless bar” killer denied parole – chicagotribune.com.
Great headline in print in the New York Post in 1983 also works for the Web because the words are specific. The Tribune story said the Newsday headline read “Night of Terror.” That worked on a newspaper page with the context of other words and pictures, but it is too general for a good match in a search engine.
The story goes that the New York Post sent a staff member to verify that the bar had topless dancing. The Poynter story explains it.
NYTimes partners with Chinese publication to get Chinese reaction
Chinese Readers on the ‘iEconomy’ – NYTimes.com.
The articles about Apple are intriguing. I also find this editing strategy to be so. How do we encourage reader reaction? Here’s one way.
Paraphrase falls short
King’s words, all of them, to be restored – The Washington Post.
The Post story explains that the inscription on the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial will be edited — a difficult job in granite.
If you listen to the entire sermon titled “The Drum Major Instinct,” you hear how insufficient the inscribed paraphrase is to capture the extended metaphor of the sermon. The other problem is point of view: King is saying what he would have others say about him; the inscription makes it sound as though he were saying those words about himself. It’s all clear if you listen to the sermon.
What other words from the sermon might have been used for the memorial inscription?
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