Thing Finder

From an essay by Michael Dirda, reviewing The Letters of Pliny the Younger . See Wikipedia for background on Pliny the Younger and his uncl...

From Contexts of Optimal Growth in Childhood by Mihaly Csikszentmahlyi, Daedulus , Volume 122, No. 1, Winter 1993. As the importance of cul...

Arthur C. Clarke, Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination, in Profiles of the Future Clarke's Law: When a distinguished but el...

From the blog site, Knowing and Doing - Reflections of an Academic and Computer Scientist there is a post, Creativity, Productivity, Discipl...

Peter Dickinson, In Defence of Rubbish . Nobody who has not spent a whole sunny afternoon under his bed rereading a pile of comics left ove...

And for the heavy duty word lovers out there, here is the American Corpus site, using 400 million words from spoken narrative and written wo...

From Contexts of Optimal Growth in Childhood by Mihaly Csikszentmahlyi, Daedulus , Volume 122, No. 1, Winter 1993. Reproductive success is n...

From E.D. Hirsch's Cultural Literacy Once the relevant knowledge has been acquired, the skill follows. General programs contrived to te...

Word Frequency Lists and Dictionary of American English . There are so many intriguing sites out there. On this particular page, they offe...

From Charles Murray's Human Accomplishment . He is describing Samuel Johnson's London, (1737-1784, population approx. 700,000) and...