The history of the limerick is something of a mystery wrapped in a wisecrack. Trying to determine who wrote the first limerick is a little like […]
Since launching my website last year, I’ve already shared several hundred of my own original limericks covering topics as diverse as Moby Dick, metempsychosis and the […]
I wrote The Legend of Bell a few years ago and left it on the shelf, waiting for the stars to align. Given the events of […]
Cognitive science was once a field reserved for the most elitist of academics in their ivory towers. But thanks to democratizing institutions like NPR and a […]
The history of language is the history of humanity. It’s what separates us from the worms and the beasts. The philosopher Wittgenstein famously said that without […]
It seems like only last year I was sitting down to write my first limerick, embarking on a project that would eventually become my Encyclopedia of […]