Blogs about: George Lakoff
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Trees Like Broccoli: Metaphors We, Like, Live By
Trees Like Broccoli Foodscapes by Carl Warner can be viewed at http://www.carlwarner.com/warner.html On an early spring morning, two adults prepare for work and ready their small daughter for daycare.… more →
Imaginary Boundaries
Women, Fire & Dangerous Things
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wrote 2 weeks ago: Fantastic article about difficult languages on The Economist. It’s quite long, but, for obviou … more →
Lady Gaga, Ballet, Synchronous Objects, etc.
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wrote 1 month ago: I haven’t updated as recently as I would have liked. There is so much going on here at the end … more →
Trees Like Broccoli: Metaphors We, Like, Live By
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wrote 2 months ago: Trees Like Broccoli Foodscapes by Carl Warner can be viewed at http://www.carlwarner.com/warner.html … more →
Happy Halloween!
wrote 2 months ago: The costume might seem funny to some, but what they don't realize is that in the current social … more →
Ever since I was thirteen I wanted to be Wise
wrote 2 months ago: I think it was the only way I could image to escape the terror I felt every day. I figured if I und … more →
On Idioms and Metaphors
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wrote 2 months ago: In More than Cool Reason, George Lakoff writes: Metaphors are so commonplace we often fail to notice … more →
Towards YouTopia: Must All Public Good Providers Remain Earthbound?
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wrote 2 months ago: Our newest guest post, the first of a series, comes from Max Borders. Max works in the trenches of t … more →
Authoritarians And Other Conservatives
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wrote 2 months ago: FiveThirtyEight.com, Nate Silver’s website, posted a piece on Monday by Tom Schaller that brie … more →
There Are No Coincidences: Three Progressive Presidents Won The Nobel Peace Prize--Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Barack Obama--Narcissistic Personality Disorder!
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wrote 2 months ago: “What needs emphasis today is the political significance of the family. A people whose marri … more →
new conservapedia translation of the bible
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wrote 2 months ago: [Based on "The Word of God has a well-known liberal bias" from Bilerico and Conservapedia's "Conserv … more →
George Lakoff on the Metaphorical Situation of Moral Politics
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wrote 3 months ago: From University of California Television: “UC Berkeley professor of Cognitive Science and Ling … more →
The Primaries
wrote 3 months ago: Friedrich Nietzsche Bodies. Language. Expression. Metaphors. Meaning. That’s a list of issues … more →
Metaphors We Live By
wrote 3 months ago: from today’s Boston Globe Ideas section: Metaphors aren’t just how we talk and write, they’re … more →
George Lakoff--Videos
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wrote 3 months ago: “Angry people are not nice people. They are people to stay away from. They explode now and then … more →
Prototypical Objects
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wrote 3 months ago: In the last entry I began to unpack what kinds of variables mark out the category of those entities … more →
Matter, Metaphor and Mind
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wrote 3 months ago: David Hubel, in ‘Eye, Brain and Vision’ (1995), remarks that the brain is a machine ‘that does tas … more →
Obama Not A Mama Last Night
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wrote 3 months ago: In the past we’ve discussed linguist George Lakoff’s writings about Republicans being ve … more →
Cognitive Metaphors
wrote 3 months ago: The particular form that the human mind takes is the result of the parsimony of evolution and its de … more →
Liberty Stance - No Compromise
wrote 4 months ago: One of my favorite author/bloggers is David Limbaugh. In this article he paints a true, if not pret … more →
