links for 2006-07-25
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On the East-Asian Way of Using English or Reflections on the “Linguistic Air-Guitar”. Fascinating article on how East Asians use and think in English.
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Blind since age 3, Ben Underwood skateboards, shoots hoops and plays video games. How does he do it? Just like bats and dolphins
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It is hailed as a quick fix for depression, schizophrenia, ME - even infertility. Now the government sees it as the answer to Britain’s widespread mental health problem. So what is cognitive behavioural therapy? And does it really work?
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The complete text of the classic book on psychopaths and the psychopathic personality The Mask of Sanity is available online as a pdf file.
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Presentism is a mode of historical analysis in which present-day ideas and perspectives are anachronistically introduced into depictions or interpretations of the past. Most modern historians seek to avoid presentism in their work because they believe it
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