An interesting article by Philip Ball, author of Critical Mass: how one thing leads to another, on crowd control at the IKEA opening has been published on UCL’s website (after publication in the Guardian). The article contains some detail on why crushes happen, but my favorite paragraph is one that criticses the whole IKEA experience: [...]
The BBC has dipped its toes into the water of popular linguistics before, with Radio 4 programmes such as Melvin Bragg’s Routes of English, however it’s not every day that they launch a whole website and pan-BBC project devoted to linguistics. The project is named Voices, and encompasses a Radio 4 series called Word4Word and [...]
My friend Claire recently commented to me that she thought Apple might be running some subtle marketing campaign, as everywhere she looked she saw people walking down the street with the iPod’s distinctive white headphones in their ears. Since then, I’ve noticed it too. The press have been keen to pick up on the iPod’s [...]