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Rate our Charles Dickens Caricature
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
We are ready to launch our next batch of Simply Charly sites this Fall and we'd like you to give us your feedback on some of the sketches we're considering.
We'd love to hear your opinions. Please post your comments below.
Rate our Beethoven
Monday, August 30th, 2010
We are ready to launch our next batch of Simply Charly sites this Fall and we'd like you to give us your feedback on some of the sketches we're considering.
We'd love to hear your opinions. Please add your comments below.
Does Your Language Shape How You Think?
Sunday, August 29th, 2010
Seventy years ago, in 1940, a popular science magazine published a short article that set in motion one of the trendiest intellectual fads of the 20th century. At first glance, there seemed little about the article to augur its subsequent celebrity. Neither the title, “Science and Linguistics,” nor the magazine, M.I.T.’s Technology Review, was most people’s idea of glamour. And the author, a chemical engineer who worked for an insurance company and moonlighted as an anthropology lecturer at Yale University, was an unlikely candidate for international superstardom. And yet Benjamin Lee Whorf let loose an alluring idea about language’s power over the mind, and his stirring prose seduced a whole generation into believing that our mother tongue restricts what we are able to think. Read more…
Scholars Test Web Alternative to Peer Review
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
For professors, publishing in elite journals is an unavoidable part of university life. The grueling process of subjecting work to the up-or-down judgment of credentialed scholarly peers has been a cornerstone of academic culture since at least the mid-20th century. Read more…
Rate our T.S. Eliot Sketch
Monday, August 23rd, 2010
We are ready to launch our next batch of Simply Charly sites this Fall and we'd like you to give us your feedback on some of the sketches we're considering.
We'd love to hear your opinions. Please add your comments below.
E-Books Make Readers Less Isolated
Sunday, August 22nd, 2010
VOLUMES have been written about technology’s ability to connect people. But burying one’s nose in a book has always been somewhat isolating — with its unspoken assertion that the reader does not want to be disturbed. So what about a device that occupies the evolving intersection between? Read more…
Simply Charly Launches Streamlined Forums
Sunday, August 15th, 2010
Simply Charly has launched newer, streamlined forums for each of its affiliate sites.
These customizable and embeddable forums, powered by Tal.ki, will make it easier for visitors to join and start their own conversations and topics without the typical forum hassles like creating new account profiles. Now users will be able to login using their favorite social networking service, such as facebook, twitter, google, yahoo, wordpress, and a handful of other providers. Additionally, our new forums will allow users to upload images and embed other media, such as video. And with a simple search you'll be able to find topics of interest so you may join the conversation.
Rate our Charles Dickens Sketch
Tuesday, August 10th, 2010
We are ready to launch our next batch of Simply Charly sites this Fall and we'd like you to give us your feedback on some of the sketches we're considering.
We'd love to hear your opinions. Please add your comments below.
Rate our Charles Dickens Caricature
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
We are ready to launch our next batch of Simply Charly sites this Fall and we'd like you to give us your feedback on some of the sketches we're considering.
We'd love to hear your opinions. Please post your comments below.
Rate our Beethoven
Monday, August 30th, 2010
We are ready to launch our next batch of Simply Charly sites this Fall and we'd like you to give us your feedback on some of the sketches we're considering.
We'd love to hear your opinions. Please add your comments below.Does Your Language Shape How You Think?
Sunday, August 29th, 2010
Seventy years ago, in 1940, a popular science magazine published a short article that set in motion one of the trendiest intellectual fads of the 20th century. At first glance, there seemed little about the article to augur its subsequent celebrity. Neither the title, “Science and Linguistics,” nor the magazine, M.I.T.’s Technology Review, was most people’s idea of glamour. And the author, a chemical engineer who worked for an insurance company and moonlighted as an anthropology lecturer at Yale University, was an unlikely candidate for international superstardom. And yet Benjamin Lee Whorf let loose an alluring idea about language’s power over the mind, and his stirring prose seduced a whole generation into believing that our mother tongue restricts what we are able to think. Read more…
Scholars Test Web Alternative to Peer Review
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
For professors, publishing in elite journals is an unavoidable part of university life. The grueling process of subjecting work to the up-or-down judgment of credentialed scholarly peers has been a cornerstone of academic culture since at least the mid-20th century. Read more…
Rate our T.S. Eliot Sketch
Monday, August 23rd, 2010
We are ready to launch our next batch of Simply Charly sites this Fall and we'd like you to give us your feedback on some of the sketches we're considering.
We'd love to hear your opinions. Please add your comments below.E-Books Make Readers Less Isolated
Sunday, August 22nd, 2010
VOLUMES have been written about technology’s ability to connect people. But burying one’s nose in a book has always been somewhat isolating — with its unspoken assertion that the reader does not want to be disturbed. So what about a device that occupies the evolving intersection between? Read more…
Simply Charly Launches Streamlined Forums
Sunday, August 15th, 2010
Simply Charly has launched newer, streamlined forums for each of its affiliate sites.
These customizable and embeddable forums, powered by Tal.ki, will make it easier for visitors to join and start their own conversations and topics without the typical forum hassles like creating new account profiles. Now users will be able to login using their favorite social networking service, such as facebook, twitter, google, yahoo, wordpress, and a handful of other providers. Additionally, our new forums will allow users to upload images and embed other media, such as video. And with a simple search you'll be able to find topics of interest so you may join the conversation.
Rate our Charles Dickens Sketch
Tuesday, August 10th, 2010
We are ready to launch our next batch of Simply Charly sites this Fall and we'd like you to give us your feedback on some of the sketches we're considering.
We'd love to hear your opinions. Please add your comments below.
