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A correspondent from the UK sends along this picture from the Waterstones outlet in Heathrow airport:
Nature has published a letter (subscription required) from Roberts and Burnham responding to this story.
Via Thoreau, a paper from a physicist in Oregon that's pretty much a grenade lobbed into the always-explosive grade inflation discussion:
Your blog is unique in my reading in that I generally just have to look on with amazement at the cool image you've located. I'm just out of my depth in having anything to discuss other that "wow, that's totally cool". consequently I would not feel any pinch if you stopped allowing comments or applied an enthusiastic hand of moderation or something like that..
I like being able to comment even if I don't have much substantive to say about what you've posted.
I only like commenting to tell you how groovy you are, punctuated with the occasional burst of nonsensical gibberish
I am curious what the catalyst was that's soured you to commenting/ers (?) though- did someone particularly illiterate start ranting at you?
No more than usual, Esmeralda! I'll be posting more about this in the next few days - but first I want to let the answers come in with minimal context from me, just to see what all the readers think. :)
I usually don't have anything very useful to contribute, but I like to be able to say "that's coooool!"
You mean, "that's LindaCOOOOOOL!" :)
understood!