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		<title>Animal words are strange fishes</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andrew Chapman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 11:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m currently editing a book about a zoo. One of the things it&#8217;s drawn my attention to is the oddity of animal plurals. Discounting irregular forms such as &#8216;geese&#8217; and pedantry such as &#8216;octopodes&#8217;, there seems to be a whole thorny area around what are known as &#8216;zero plurals&#8217;, where the plural is the same [&#8230;]<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'>
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		<title>Simple methods get my vote</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:23:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[For the last decade I&#8217;ve been following the fascinating work of Gerd Gigerenzer and colleagues (especially Dan Goldstein) – as briefly as I can state it, he has identified a number of very simple heuristics which outperform far more complex models for decision-making processes or making predictions about certain kinds of data (this stuff has [&#8230;]<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'>
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		<title>A new look at the publisher&#8217;s lunch</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 09:42:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As usual, everyone&#8217;s talking about how publishing can survive, and how to make money on the internet. Paul Graham has written an excellent essay, Post-Medium Publishing, where he observes that it is wrong to think publishers sell &#8216;content&#8217; – rather, they sell a means of distribution, and prices are dictated by that (ie, historically, the [&#8230;]<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'>
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		<title>Cough cough</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andrew Chapman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Dec 2008 12:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[So, we did that thing, you know, where you take an ickle baby to church on Christmas Day. Unlike the carol service the other night, which we had to abandon after 20 minutes due to said ickle baby screaming his ickle bright red head off, he slept through it and all was well. We had [&#8230;]<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'>
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		<title>Parenthood and its discontents</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andrew Chapman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As if having a baby wasn&#8217;t exhausting enough, the received wisdom on looking after the little blighter is a nightmarish minefield of theory and counter-theory. The chief debates are these: &#8216;On demand&#8217; vs &#8216;routine&#8217;. Theorists abound and create whole industries around their bestselling books. On the left, I give you attachment parenting: William Sears,&#160;Margot Sutherland [&#8230;]<div class='yarpp yarpp-related yarpp-related-rss yarpp-template-list'>
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		<title>Howzat?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Slipping on peanut butter</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Andrew Chapman]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The music of the warming spheres</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>I&#8217;m loading the gun now</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Nov 2007 18:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Methodism in the madness</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2007 09:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
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