April 2010

For the love of books: The benefits of bedtime stories

by Sheila Wallace on Thursday, April 29, 2010, 12:13 pm · 1 comment

in News

Do you read regularly to your children? I remember enjoying a bedtime story almost every night of my preschool years. But apparently that’s not the norm today… Read: More than half of teachers say ‘many of our pupils have never heard a bedtime story’ The poll found 55.7 per cent of primary school teachers have [...]

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When proofreaders fail: The costly mistakes of misprints

by Sheila Wallace on Sunday, April 18, 2010, 11:01 am · 1 comment

in Editing,News,Publishing

No, this isn’t a cookbook for cannibals. This is an example of a major proofreading error: Pasta Cookbook pulped over ‘freshly ground black people’ misprint An Australian publisher is reprinting 7,000 cookbooks over a recipe for pasta with ‘salt and freshly ground black people.’ Penguin Australia’s head of publishing, Bob Sessions, acknowledged the proofreader for [...]

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The “science” of Anthropogenic Climate Change: manipulation and exaggeration

by Sheila Wallace on Sunday, April 11, 2010, 10:29 am · 1 comment

in Featured eBooks,Miscellaneous

From Science & Public Policy Institute: Authors veteran meteorologists Joe D’Aleo and Anthony Watts analyzed temperature records from all around the world for a major SPPI paper, Surface Temperature Records – Policy-driven Deception? The startling conclusion that we cannot tell whether there was any significant “global warming” at all in the 20th century is based [...]

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Rick Mercer’s iPad humor: Get the iSlab

by Sheila Wallace on Monday, April 5, 2010, 3:56 pm

in Miscellaneous

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