Tag: Oxford University Press

  • Just in time for Christmas – Oxford University Press Publishes American Classic’s Reading List

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    The Oxford University Press has compiled some of the best books from American literature to read when you’re looking to escape into a story. Of course, they started with Moby Dick – one of the “greatest books of American  literature ever written.” Moby Dick by Herman Melville “Call me Ishmael.” And so begins one of the…

  • Etymology of ‘Simpleton’

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    The Oxford University Press blog has a weekly etymology series.  This week Anatoly Liberman researches the origin of the word “simpleton” and finds it’s not so simple. Simpleton is an irritating word. At first sight, its origin contains no secrets: simple + ton. And that may be all there is to it despite the obscurity of…

  • Solar Powered Sea Slugs

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    The Oxford University Press always has interesting articles, with odd little tidbits of information.  For instance here’s one on “crawling leaves” by Sonia Cruz: ‘Crawling leaves’ or ‘solar-powered sea slugs’ are common terms used to name some species of sacoglossan sea slugs capable of performing photosynthesis, a process usually associated with plants. These sea slugs…

  • People of Color In the Middle Ages Not an Anachronism

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    I ran across the blog Medieval POC while reading an article at the Oxford University Press. The focus of the blog is to “showcase works of art from European history that feature People of Color” and to “address common misconceptions that People of Color did not exist in Europe before the Enlightenment”. Here’s a recent post: The all-white…

  • Art Excites The Whole Brain

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    For those of us whose appreciation for art is simply a personal asthetic, a kind of “aha this speaks to me,” Arthur Shimamura’s article in the Oxford University Press may shed some light on how our brains experience it: …over the past two decades, neuroimaging research has advanced our understanding of the biological bases of many…

  • Superhero essay competition: tell us your favorite superpower

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    For the many talented poets and writers that visit my blog, the Oxford University Press is holding an essay competition: Sharpen your claws… er, pencils… It’s the summer of the superhero here at Oxford University Press. We’re publishing two essay collections on the real powers superheroes hold — on our imagination and our understanding of…