December 2010
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meta-phor-play
as a wee raynorling, i lumped the concept of metaphor into the same category as rhyme and alliteration—mere ornaments of language. but just as my taste in fashion matured from aeropostale and abercrombie & fitch to armani and prada so too have my thoughts on the importance of the metaphor.  indeed i now recognise the metaphor as the very nature of human thought. to understand through metaphor...
Dec 14th
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Dec 13th
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from an actual academic journal published in the...
if you didn’t know already, i am a steadfast advocate of: 1. exhaustive research & 2. establishing standards. so when i came across this scholarly article which calls for standardising the “elicitation of a pain cry from infants” (for research purposes!) i knew that i had found a cause for me to rally behind. get a hot load of this: Presently, there appears to be a lack of...
Dec 7th
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Dec 2nd
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Dec 1st
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