Lex Ferenda

I have recently finished reading a translation of Patrice Flichy’s wonderful 2001 book, L’imaginiare d’Internet, published in English this year by MIT Press as The Internet Imaginaire. (MIT Press, Amazon). My French is woeful (and certainly not up to academic reading, and certainly certainly not up to sociology), so while aware of the [...]

Via that well-known academic periodical, the Annals of Improbable Research, comes news of this year’s Ig Nobel prizes. I particularly enjoyed the paper that won the Literature prize, which will interest the more library-minded readers of this blog. It’s a paper on how to treat the word ‘the’, concluding that the best solution [...]