i ran with my kids in a really, really great wagon until this winter. four year old twins wearing layers upon layers of winter clothes are too heavy to push through snow. so, i have been looking for an alternative form of exercise on the days i can not get out and run by [...]

there is an article in the book i am reading, After Habermas, called expanding dialogue: the internet, the public sphere and prospects for transnational democracy which seems really interesting. i am not too far into the article, but have found a quote that i love…
What is potentially misleading is the assumption that dialogue must be [...]

as you can see, this blog is going through a major identity crisis. the template i am using here is not nice stylistically. the colors do not work well together, or with the background. it does, however, achieve the affect i am trying to do, so i have uploaded it and will attempt to tweak [...]

a group of us meet in the lab on the last thursday of every month to discuss different aspects of research. today we talked about a variety of things (jim commented that gossip was open source info :-P ) , but one dilemma that comes up over and over again is how involved the researcher [...]

i am looking for a temporary solution for this blog. i am busy reading and writing and doing all sorts of fun academic stuff, as well as preparing umeå’s first v-day. i really liked my last blog layout, but i got a lot of complaints about readability. so, this is my temporary solution until i [...]

today i borrowed a book that really looks interesting called after habermas.
this book has been compiled with the aim of depending and extending the habermasian project by way of both an engagement with habermas and, ore particularly, a consideration of other theories and frameworks which afford us different ways of problematizing and exploring the public [...]

i really like this definition of grammar (by ellis) as presented in david block’s book, the social turn of second language acquisition (book review).

knowledge that the speaker-hearer has of what constitutes appropriate as well as correct language behavior and also of what constitutes effective language behavior in relation to particular communicative goals.
this definition takes grammar [...]

i have to say, i am exceedingly good at killing my blog. so good, in fact, that i should begin a flash archive of my dead/dying blogs. today i tried to upload a different stylesheet as my other was difficult to read (even though i really liked it). i thought i would just use [...]