Today is UNESCO World Poetry Day, so here's a poem by Tony Harrison titled Social Mobility.
Ah, the proved advantages of scholarship!
Whereas his dad took cold tea for his snap,
he slaves at nuances, knows at just one sip
Chateau Lafitte from Chateau Neuf du Pape.
Two worlds, irony, scepticism and just a hint of self loathing, all in four lines: not bad going.
The data are on a 1-5 scale, the mean is 4.61, and the standard deviation
is 1.64 . . . What’s so wrong about that??
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James Heathers reports on the article, “Contagion or restitution? When bad
apples can motivate ethical behavior,” by Gino, Gu, and Zhong (2009): There
is s...
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