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Party animals

The social you are, the more of a party animal you become—and the cheaper it becomes to get wasted. Just ask crayfish.

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Posted on April 25, 2017 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Branding: It Burns

According to an Economist review of Wally Olins’ posthumous Brand New: The Shape of Brands to Come (Thames & Hudson, 2014), branding is “about knowing who you are…and showing it.” It sounds simple but for a novelist it is not.

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Posted on November 4, 2014 by Nicola Griffith in 1-essays

Two ways to look at the restored Rijksmuseum

There’s the Economist’s blog article on the brilliantly restored Rijksmuseum, with thoughtful, luscious videography. And then, when your Sunday latte has woken…

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Posted on April 14, 2013 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

More on nuns, money, and the evolution of language

I know, I’ve been largely absent. Life is just being very, hm, lifelike at the moment. But here’s a long, juicy post…

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Posted on August 25, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Portable Legal Consent

While I wait for a couple of publishing-related things to happen, I’ve been catching up on my reading. This week’s Economist has…

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Posted on May 3, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Dirty Old Town

This is “Dirty Old Town,” by Ewan MacColl. As Prospero, the Economist art blog, points out: “Although about Salford, it could be…

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Posted on March 24, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Christopher Logue, poet

I read All Day Permanent Red when it first came out in 2003 (or perhaps it was when it first came out…

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Posted on January 5, 2012 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Novels: the expression of the human condition

Campbell’s Soup I (1968), low-res snapshot so it can (hopefully) be considered Fair Use, via Wikipedia A couple of weeks ago I…

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Posted on November 16, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

The future of publishing: retail?

Today for your delectation and delight, here’s a selection of publishing news for you. According to Publishers Weekly, ebook sales in June…

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Posted on September 13, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Boom-time machine

I lifted the title for this post from the Economist article of the same name: Radiocarbon dating provides a range, often spanning…

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Posted on July 4, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

My ‘risk intelligence’ is high, baby. How about yours?

Via Cassandra, I learnt about the Point Project. According to their website, the Point Project: is a project to gather information about…

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Posted on January 23, 2011 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

English people can’t speak American

On this lovely November Saturday, three things for you delectation and delight. A great review of Kelley’s Dangerous Space by Terry Weyna,…

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Posted on November 20, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

‘Humankind’ vs. ‘Mankind’

In the battle that is Humankind vs. Mankind we all know who would win: for one thing, there are more than twice…

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Posted on November 16, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

The Sound of Science

(Thanks, Angélique) How do you think a doctor knowsHow a disease like cancer grows?How did we learn how we might treat it?How…

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Posted on October 4, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Facebook for spies

A couple of weeks ago, I read a funny article in the Economist, “Yammering away at the office.” (The Economist is often…

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Posted on February 14, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

the Apparatgeist

I cam across a lovely new word last week in the Economist: apparatgeist, in a most interesting piece “The Apparatgeist calls.” ‘How…

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Posted on January 10, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

a tide of ill-informed good will: more about blockbusters

Well, okay, it looks as though the Economist has already said everying I was trying to say yesterday, and said it better….

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Posted on January 6, 2010 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

money in your face

According to the Economist, Jefferson Duarte of Rice University in Houston, Texas, thinks that a person’s creditworthiness can be seen in their…

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Posted on March 18, 2009 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

Tetris + Ecstasy = no PTSD

illustration: The Economist In Medical News Today, I read an article that triggered a lot of thinking. It’s about how playing Tetris…

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Posted on January 12, 2009 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

mind the gap

An interesting article about gender difference in maths and reading test scores in this week’s economist, ‘Vital Statistics‘: Luigi Guiso of the…

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Posted on June 4, 2008 by Nicola Griffith in Uncategorized

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