“What really happened to the news business”

“For my beginning students, anaphora is a device they already have some familiarity with through popular culture and history. Pointing out this knowledge to students can be a way for them to enter into poetry and to demystify what students can see as a daunting subject.”

“In “Neuro,” Rose and Abi-Rached see the real problem: neuroscience can often answer the obvious questions but rarely the interesting ones. It can tell us how our minds are made to hear music, and how groups of notes provoke neural connections, but not why Mozart is more profound than Manilow.”

“The story is prioritizing the conflict of familial envy over the more grandiose problem of divine revelation.”

Eudaimonic well-being promotes favorable gene-expression profiles, while hedonic well-being creates adverse expression profiles.

” I was thinking of all the literary themes based on nature that I had studied back in school — the awesome beauty and the spirituality inherent in the natural world and the unrelenting destruction of it, wrought by this thing that we call civilization or progress.”