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Which English translation of Montaigne's
Complete Essays do you recommend--
Donald Frame's or
M. A. Screech's? (Also, feel free to recommend another--these are the two I know of.)
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at 6:53 PM on August 5, 2008
(7 comments)
Do American institutions of higher education collectively grant more doctorates annually in the arts and humanities than in the "hard" sciences (that is, biology, chemistry, physics, and for this discussion, mathematics)?
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at 8:19 AM on April 28, 2008
(6 comments)
What does the phrase "out of pocket" mean, and what's its origin?
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at 6:05 AM on April 3, 2008
(66 comments)
Does the practice mode of the PS2 version of
Rock Band offer the options to play through songs at a slower-than-normal speed, and to select difficult sections of songs to practice repeatedly?
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at 10:03 AM on January 2, 2008
(2 comments)
What factors influence the value of 4-week T-bills in the United States?
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at 9:48 AM on April 12, 2007
(9 comments)
Why would my beard need to "get used" to an electric razor?
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at 12:29 PM on January 2, 2007
(17 comments)
Is Shelby Foote's
The Civil War: A Narrative widely considered to be authoritative?
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at 9:53 AM on December 7, 2006
(10 comments)
A question about the "Back to the Old School" line of hip-hop compilations published by Castle Music UK.
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at 8:38 AM on November 5, 2006
(1 comment)
Is the Woman Who Has Too Much Power and Must Be Stopped a commonly recurring plotline in genre works? If so, what are some examples?
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at 12:31 PM on July 8, 2006
(27 comments)
Is there any evidence to support the idea that headphones need to be "burned in" to sound better?
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at 7:30 AM on June 5, 2006
(18 comments)
A set of questions related to
this review in today's
New York Times--it's the inaugural review of a new science-fiction column.
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at 10:33 AM on March 5, 2006
(52 comments)
I want to listen to Richard Wagner's Ring cycle. Where should I begin?
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at 7:36 AM on January 23, 2006
(16 comments)
I'm a first-time cellphone buyer and I currently live in a state other than the one where I have a driver's license. Will this affect the area code of my cellphone number? (Keep in mind that I know little or nothing about cellphones.)
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at 8:04 AM on January 4, 2006
(15 comments)
What's the best English edition of
War and Peace?
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at 6:51 AM on August 12, 2005
(12 comments)
In James T. Farrell's novel
The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan (1934), Studs's favorite beverage of choice (other than booze) is a
coffee an'. What is a
coffee an' ?
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at 7:54 AM on July 15, 2005
(7 comments)
Ballpoint pen question: I bought a Parker Jotter 0.7 mm-point refill last month, and after about twenty pages of writing it's already starting to crap out on me--its line is unacceptably light, and sometimes disappears completely. (These refills usually last me a year or more.) Is there anything I can do to save it (soaking the tip in some substance, etc.), or is it a lost cause?
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at 12:25 PM on June 15, 2005
(9 comments)
I purchased a Moleskine notebook yesterday (previously discussed at length in
this MeFi thread), and I have a feeling that it will be the first of many--overblown marketing aside, the design of these things really is excellent. But $11 for a pocket-size notebook is pretty expensive. Where's the cheapest place online to find them? Bulk purchasing is a possibility.
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at 7:57 AM on May 15, 2005
(22 comments)
As a non-Catholic, I have a (very long) question about the depiction of American Catholicism in Richard Hofstadter's book
Anti-Intellectualism in American Life.
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at 11:23 AM on March 15, 2005
(11 comments)
Does Neal Stephenson's
Baroque Cycle undergo any stylistic changes in volumes two and three that will make it more readable?
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at 12:51 PM on March 1, 2005
(22 comments)
Which zombie movies do you consider to be canonical?
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at 8:49 AM on October 2, 2004
(21 comments)
I'd like advice about how to begin learning how to play the game of go--I'm specifically thinking of recommended introductory texts for the absolute beginner, but anything else useful you have to say is welcome.
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at 11:46 AM on August 2, 2004
(15 comments)
I want to register a domain, which I've never done before. Is it best to register a
domain by proxy? Also, is Godaddy.com good for this kind of thing?
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at 5:40 PM on June 21, 2004
(20 comments)
PhilosophyFilter--I have a question about the work of Michael Dummett, specifically his book
Truth and the Past. [more inside]
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at 11:53 AM on June 5, 2004
(3 comments)
Suppose that you're at a party, or wandering down the street in a small town, or in your local coffee shop, and you run across someone you've briefly met before several months ago, but whose name you don't remember. However, he or she remembers yours, and greets you effusively. In this circumstance you'd rather not say, "You'll have to forgive me, but even though you apparently remember me quite well, I don't have a clue what your name is." Is there a way to get the person to say his or her first name to you
without you admitting to him or her that you've forgotten it? Assume that there are no other people involved in your conversation, that you have fifteen minutes to get their name from them, and that you have a reasonable ability to direct the conversation topic to whatever subject you wish.
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at 10:05 AM on June 3, 2004
(31 comments)
I'm going to
Churrascaria Plataforma in NYC in a couple of weeks, an all-you-can-eat Brazilian restaurant that encourages gastronomic excess. What are strategies I can employ to help me consume more food than a person should reasonably eat in a single sitting? (Time isn't a factor, I don't think--it's a fixed-price menu, and I believe you can stay as long as you like.) And is there any Brazilian cuisine that I should try while I'm there?
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at 12:34 PM on May 3, 2004
(36 comments)
Super Hard AskMe Challenge! A few years ago, when listening to the low end of the radio dial late one night, I heard an arrangement of all four movements of Rimsky-Korsakov's
Scheherezade, performed entirely by two acoustic guitars. I'd very much like to hear it again. Who recorded this, is it available on compact disc, and where can I find it for sale (if at all)?
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at 12:40 PM on April 12, 2004
(8 comments)
Is
this an April Fool's joke, or not? The
New York Times (reg. req.) appears to think that it isn't, but it's on
this list of online April Fool's jokes.
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at 6:29 AM on April 1, 2004
(27 comments)
Has anyone around here used
Rosetta Stone software for learning foreign languages? Did it work well for you?
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at 1:01 PM on February 24, 2004
(7 comments)
I'm planning on spending this coming weekend (February 20-22) in New York City. On the agenda is the
MeFi meetup, of course, but some other time that weekend I'd also like to go dancing somewhere. Can anyone recommend a good club, or a DJ that's appearing somewhere? [more inside]
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at 5:32 PM on February 17, 2004
(5 comments)
The film
Perfect Blue is very confusing. (more inside, with major spoilers)
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at 6:05 PM on January 19, 2004
(11 comments)
Can anyone recommend a good Mac OS X-native word processor that
isn't Microsoft Word? [more inside]
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at 7:52 PM on December 21, 2003
(11 comments)
What are your favorite DVD commentary tracks?
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at 1:28 PM on December 8, 2003
(51 comments)
