@wwaycorrigan [For an audio/vlog version of this story, click here.] For native English speakers of the Old World, namely inhabitants of Britain and (whisper it) Ireland, it can be hard to accept that our New World ancestors have better language conventions than us. For some...
@wwaycorrigan [For an audio/vlog version of this story, click here.] No pain, no gain. The meaning of that proverb needs little explanation, expressed in various guises as it has been throughout the ages. I can’t think of any success of note I’ve had — yes,...
@wwaycorrigan [Listen to an audio version of this blog entry here.] If you’ve ever listened to and/or read the work of Canadian cognitive psychologist, linguist, and popular-science author, Steven Pinker, you’ll know that he’s been at pains to tell us, replete...
@wwaycorrigan «The world has never been better and very few of us know it.» That was the hook for a talk given by the ‘celebrity’ cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker in Bogotá recently. It’s also the thrust of his latest book, Enlightenment Now. No one can...
