Homer, Bart, Lisa, Marge, and their friends in Springfield, Wherever-it-is, have given us fancy words of pure invention, worthy of Lewis Carroll, like cromulent ‘legitimate, but not really’, and words built from worthy English parts, like the blend of opposites in craptacular ‘crappy, with attitude’ and embiggening ‘enlarging’, as well as catch phrases like cowabunga, dude!, and Don’t have a cow. Embiggening is the sort of word you make up from scratch when you’re lacking the edumacation to know that enlarge already exists, and edumacation is the sort of word you use if you also use embiggening.
Archives for December 2014
How ‘Deprogramming’ Kids From How to ‘Do School’ Could Improve Learning
The Everything Book: reading in the age of Amazon
How We ”Email” Hardware To Space
This is so cool and shows some of the true purpose for 3D printing. While “emailing” a wrench to space is a neat example, the true benefit will be expanding use to remote and underserved regions.