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Monthly Archives: August 2009
Fenzel on Dragon Ball #3: Metonymy and Metaphor
Textalyzing Albums: Word Frequency in the Lyrics of Born To Run, Straight Outta Compton, and Taylor Swift
We now have a new tool to help us decipher pop music lyrics: totally unnecessary quantitative analysis.
Overthinking Lost: Episodes 3.17-3.22
At the end of season three, I take a look back at the first half of Lost… with the power of mathematics!
Episode 58: I Know Now Why You Floss
The Overthinkers tackle the Artistic Projects of John Hughes, Thomas Pynchon, and Eddie Murphy.
RIP John Hughes (1950-2009)
Open Thread for August 7, 2009
John Hughes (1950–2009).
The Best Fake Real American Hero [Think Tank]
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Through the Player’s Eyes
I was reading an essay called “Art and Answerability” by Mikhail Bakhtin the other day, where he makes the claim that one of the most important differences between novels and dreams is that in novels, we see the main character…
The Dark Inquisitor
… all will follow him, crying, “Who can compare with this beast? He has given us fire from heaven!”