I have to admit, I was a little nervous about whether or not I was going to be able to read this selection of the Inquisition trials. However, I’m really starting to adjust to the common vocabulary and abbreviations used in these documents, and once I became accustomed to the scribe’s handwriting style (and the […]
As chance would have it, William and Mary’s Theatre department chose this semester to perform Stoppard’s translation of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull. I hadn’t planned things this way, but the timing couldn’t be better! Though the play is obviously not original material for Stoppard, after watching the play, it is easy to see why he […]
My first final deadline for graduate school applications is the 1st of December - and my thesis chapter is not finished. Oops. After revising outlines and reviewing notes, I think I’ve managed to destroy several sections of the first copy. I have a much clearer idea of how I’m arguing certain points, […]
Discovery is hosting this huge self-help-through-neuroscience convention in Philly this week. Gazzaniga will be there, and it will be free, so if you can make it there by 7p this Thursday it would be pretty cool to meet him. Levitin will also be there, and apparently he’s got a new book out. Personally, I felt […]
Okay. I’ve gone through Low’s diary in much greater detail this past week, figuring it would be helpful to look at it more closely since my larger argument and thought processes have really developed over the past week or so. And going through Low’s diary again has been a really rewarding experience. It fascinates me […]
Literally, every project I had to do for my other classes was due today, plus the regular homework and a Latin quiz, plus my mom visited…so, needless to say, I did not get anything done on my thesis this weekend. I did, however, begin writing a little bit on Thursday; I organized my ideas […]
The first is Steve Novella, for this post where he uses the logic of science to tear apart accupuncture. I do love good science.
The other is this quote from Eric Ambler, which is the most poetic intro I’ve yet found for my research:
” With most persons, recognition was based on the perception of vague, half-observed […]
Monday I had a meeting with my adviser. He said I was making good progress and had good sources, but I don’t feel that confident after this week. Tuesday I continued to tweak my outline until I had a solid one for my chapter. I started writing on Wednesday, and got through a pretty solid […]
In the news today: the best description of environmentally generated individual differences within an evolutionarily generalized psychological mechanism that I’ve read since Lee Kirkpatrick’s most excellent book on attachment and religion. I, of course, highly recommend that you buy the book; it’s funny, insightful, and will fundamentally and forever change the way that you think […]
Stoppard’s The Invention of Love is the last of the three plays (the other two being The Real Thing and Arcadia) which are usually mentioned when discussing love and romance in Stoppard’s writing. Much like his subject, scholar poet A. E. Housman, Stoppard was frequently considered early in his career to be ‘heartless’ in that his […]