{"id":1673,"date":"2011-11-24T09:57:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-24T08:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/?p=1673"},"modified":"2011-11-24T09:57:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-24T08:57:00","slug":"tweets-for-2011-11-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/2011\/11\/24\/tweets-for-2011-11-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Tweets for 2011-11-24"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"aktt_tweet_digest\">\n<li>Creationist slams &quot;research&quot; from @<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/sheffielduni\" class=\"aktt_username\">sheffielduni<\/a> Psychology department <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/rIA2FEfC\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/t.co\/rIA2FEfC<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/tomstafford\/statuses\/137150369062060032\" class=\"aktt_tweet_time\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Ouch! Why is U2 popular? <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/zpMy0XYw\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/t.co\/zpMy0XYw<\/a> &quot;The nostalgia is so thick you have to wipe it from your face. &quot; via @<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/rellimluap\" class=\"aktt_username\">rellimluap<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/tomstafford\/statuses\/137167599640379392\" class=\"aktt_tweet_time\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Economist debate from Dec 2010 &quot;Language Shapes How We Think&quot;. <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/9Wa5zsY4\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/t.co\/9Wa5zsY4<\/a> Boroditsky vs Liberman (of Language Log), round one! <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/tomstafford\/statuses\/137463667208880128\" class=\"aktt_tweet_time\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Round Two! <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/Kus1D5x4\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/t.co\/Kus1D5x4<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/tomstafford\/statuses\/137464358291771393\" class=\"aktt_tweet_time\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Just found my opening music for today&#039;s lecture <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/pfQ7XHiM\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/t.co\/pfQ7XHiM<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/tomstafford\/statuses\/137475208243195904\" class=\"aktt_tweet_time\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>&quot;modelling natural action selection&quot; book just out (and in my sweaty paw)  <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/O3JWKSRW\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/t.co\/O3JWKSRW<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/tomstafford\/statuses\/137580515288023041\" class=\"aktt_tweet_time\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>.@tom_hartley and it is interesting &#8211; a proper evolutionary &amp; computational treatment of decision making! <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/tomstafford\/statuses\/137585688697782272\" class=\"aktt_tweet_time\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Gladstone was prime minister 4 times in the 19C, AND he found time to dabble in linguistic anthropology <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/LAzWO5zQ\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/t.co\/LAzWO5zQ<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/tomstafford\/statuses\/138533349915492352\" class=\"aktt_tweet_time\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Your source for that is, of course, Gladstone, W. E. (1858). Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age. London: Oxford University Press <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/tomstafford\/statuses\/138535345015885824\" class=\"aktt_tweet_time\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Winston Churchill said &quot;They told me how Mr Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served him right.&quot; <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/tomstafford\/statuses\/138535486456209409\" class=\"aktt_tweet_time\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Birth of a myth: Whorf (1940) makes the claim that the Eskimos have many words for snow <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/84OzD3Fe\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/t.co\/84OzD3Fe<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/tomstafford\/statuses\/138539601865355264\" class=\"aktt_tweet_time\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>What&#039;s the collective noun for professors? One correspondent suggested &quot;an absence&quot; <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/FusFgzE4\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/t.co\/FusFgzE4<\/a> in @<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/timeshighered\" class=\"aktt_username\">timeshighered<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/tomstafford\/statuses\/138587512196173824\" class=\"aktt_tweet_time\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Love the straight dope: &quot;Could early man only see three colours?&quot; <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/LAzWO5zQ\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/t.co\/LAzWO5zQ<\/a> (quick answer: no) <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/tomstafford\/statuses\/138665290857852929\" class=\"aktt_tweet_time\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>a solution if you don&#039;t like using a passive author voice, though not a recommended one <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/avpD3oIU\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/t.co\/avpD3oIU<\/a> via @<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mathewe\" class=\"aktt_username\">mathewe<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/tomstafford\/statuses\/139013307058229248\" class=\"aktt_tweet_time\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>RT @<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/PhEMH\" class=\"aktt_username\">PhEMH<\/a> @tomstafford although really this is just another &quot;Polly Matzinger rocks&quot; story &#8230; which she does &lt;&#8211; True! <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/txFVggYw\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/t.co\/txFVggYw<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/tomstafford\/statuses\/139015909556764672\" class=\"aktt_tweet_time\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The more I read of the new Whorfianism the less impressed I am; Lera Boroditsky in Scientific American <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/XgsMqBef\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/t.co\/XgsMqBef<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/tomstafford\/statuses\/139314246612819968\" class=\"aktt_tweet_time\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Preparing for lectures on language and cognition. Do the words we use matter? This complaint to the BBC assumes they do <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/aoOUKra5\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/t.co\/aoOUKra5<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/tomstafford\/statuses\/139371521759121408\" class=\"aktt_tweet_time\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>&quot;Viagra for engagement dysfunction&quot; RT @<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/tombennett71\" class=\"aktt_username\">tombennett71<\/a>: Gamification is bullsh*t <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/2dLN4pVa\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/t.co\/2dLN4pVa<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/tomstafford\/statuses\/139611849686646784\" class=\"aktt_tweet_time\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Fantastic paper from Flaherty &amp; Senghas (2011) showing how language supportings thinking (about numbers in this case) <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/DO5SeiPB\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/t.co\/DO5SeiPB<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/tomstafford\/statuses\/139624940558221312\" class=\"aktt_tweet_time\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<li>&quot;Language as a Cognitive Technology: English-Speakers Match Like Piraha When You Don\u2019t Let Them Count&quot; <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/EpNFjaxC\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/t.co\/EpNFjaxC<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/tomstafford\/statuses\/139625536627539968\" class=\"aktt_tweet_time\">#<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"aktt_credit\">Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/alexking.org\/projects\/wordpress\">Twitter Tools<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creationist slams &quot;research&quot; from @sheffielduni Psychology department http:\/\/t.co\/rIA2FEfC # Ouch! Why is U2 popular? http:\/\/t.co\/zpMy0XYw &quot;The nostalgia is so thick you have to wipe it from your face. &quot; via @rellimluap # Economist debate from Dec 2010 &quot;Language Shapes How We Think&quot;. http:\/\/t.co\/9Wa5zsY4 Boroditsky vs Liberman (of Language Log), round one! # Round Two! http:\/\/t.co\/Kus1D5x4 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tweets"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5KQtW-qZ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idiolect.org.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}