Slow Science

I like the 'slow food' movement a lot, and for a lot of reasons. Slow Science has been around for a while, but I just learned of a new manifesto from France. Here's the link, and there's an English version.

Many readers probably know this similar thing: slow-science.org, but any manifesto that starts out with 'we don't blog' and 'we don't tweet' may be trying my patience a little. (Of course they actually write 'we don't twitter', which is kind of endearing.)

Really, I guess I'd been expecting some kind of organized backlash to the speeding up of everything in research.

So, verbistas, what do you make of the initiative?

Image from here.

Earthquake humor?

On the Randi Rhodes show just now, the guest host is Nicole Sandler was just reading tweets about the east coast earthquake. In the hope that there weren't serious injuries or damage, here's a language-related bit of humor:

I was rotf, but not l-ing.

I don't know why, but it seems funny.

V Bar: Watering hole for syntacticians

Some of our readers no doubt know that there's a watering hole for syntacticians in Terminal 5 of London Heathrow Airport. A reader has sent along this image of it ...


Makes me thirsty, but I'm not sure if Merge translates here into shaken versus stirred.

A big tip of the bowler, or more modern headgear, to PTR.