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A collection of Carl Hiaasen's best columns from the past twelve years, covering topics, like hurricanes, off-shore drilling, voting rights, and political corruption, that have become national issues.

The man behind @ScientistTrump - ecologist Emilio Bruna at the University of Florida in Gainesville - is no stranger to social-media antics. Last year, as editor-in-chief of the ecology journal Biotropica, he instigated rap battles with the Twitter accounts of other science journals. Bruna started the Trump parody account in July after joking with fellow editors that they should review papers as the presidential candidate would.

Respecto de la transitada polémica entre Boedo y Florida desarrollada en revistas culturales argentinas al promediar la década del veinte, la crítica literaria sostiene que se produjo una distribución de los tonos serios y humorísticos, que se correspondería con la clásica división entre forma y contenido: mientras el \"arte social\" de Boedo se habría concentrado en la denuncia de tono serio, el \"arte por el arte\" que defendió Florida habría encontrado en el humor una de las posibilidades para que la literatura reflexione sobre sí misma. No obstante, una relectura de Los Pensadores, revista en torno de la cual se constituyó el grupo de Boedo, permite advertir que el tono humorístico fue una de sus estrategias centrales para la crítica de la literatura y de la sociedad de su época, en consonancia con su proyecto literario, cultural y político. Palabras clave: revistas culturales, humor, izquierda, arte social, Boedo, polémicas, vanguardias, Florida Regarding the thoroughly discussed polemics between the Boedo and the Florida groups that took place in cultural magazines in the mid 20s, literary critique supports the idea that its display involved a certain distribution of serious and humoristic tones within argentine literary language, which would correspond, in turn, to the classical division between form and content. Whereas the \"social art\" by Boedo would have focused in seriously toned denunciation, grounded in the seriousness of the problems it addressed, the \"art for art's sake\" defended by Florida, would have found In humour a way for literature to reflect about Itself and to produce Its criticism and self-criticism. However, a re-reading of Los Pensadores, the journal around which the Boedo group organized itself, suggests that a humoristic tone was one of its fundamental strategies for the criticism of the literature and the society of its time, in synch with its literary, cultural and political project. Keywords: cultural journals, humor, left, social art, Boedo, polemics, avant-garde, Florida Sobre a conhecida polêmica entre Boedo e Florida desenvolvida nas revistas culturais argentinas em meados dos anos 20, a crítica literária sustenta que houve uma distribuição de tons sérios e humorísticos, que corresponderia à divisão clássica entre forma e conteúdo: enquanto a \"arte social\" de Boedo teria se concentrado em denunciar um tom sério, a \"arte pela arte\" defendida por Florida teria encontrado no humor uma das possibilidades da literatura refletir sobre si mesma. Apesar dessas afirmações, uma releitura de Los Pensadores, revista em torno da qual se formou o grupo de Boedo, permite perceber que o tom humorístico foi uma de suas estratégias centrais para criticar a literatura e a sociedade de seu tempo, em consonância com seu projeto cultural e político. Palavras-chave: revistas culturais, humor, esquerda, arte social, Boedo, polêmica, vanguarda, Flórida

Patients undergoing radiation therapy struggle with many physical and emotional stressors. Many ways to help patients cope with stressors and improve the treatment experience are found in the literature, including humor, art, entertainment, and hospitality. At H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, the radiation therapy nurses and staff members use entertainment in an annual patient appreciation day event as one way to give back to the patients.

Authentic discussions are dialogically oriented classroom interactions where participants present and consider multiple perspectives and often use others' input in constructing their contributions. Despite their instructional effectiveness, authentic discussions are reportedly rare in classrooms. This qualitative case study examines the features of the environment of a fifth-grade classroom community where authentic discussions were frequent. The examination used recorded class sessions, interviews, and field notes to identify seven aspects of the classroom environment that appeared to be essential to the presence of authentic discussions: physical environment, curricular demands and enacted curriculum, teacher beliefs, student beliefs about discussions, relationships among members, classroom procedures, and norms of classroom participation. (DIPF/Orig.).

Incorporating humor into preoperative teaching may improve patients' ability to recall pertinent instruction. This article describes a study in which an experimental, two-group, pretest/posttest design was used to determine whether there was a significant difference in the amount of knowledge patients recalled after receiving a teaching booklet either with (ie, experimental) or without (ie, control) humor. The sample included 50 patients undergoing open-heart surgery. Results indicate that there was no significant difference ( F 1, 48 = .07, P > .05) between the groups in the amount of knowledge gained related to postoperative pulmonary exercises. Both groups, however, had a statistically significant increase in the amount of knowledge gained from pretest to posttest ( F 1, 48 = 39.16, P < .05). Before humorous teaching strategies can be recommended for use in preoperative teaching, further research about the relationship between preoperative instruction, humor, and knowledge retention is necessary. AORN J 74 (Nov 2001) 683–689.

This article examines the stand-up comedy of Cuban exile comedian Guillermo Alvarez Guedes and his use of a culturally specific form of Cuban humor called choteo . Despite being a popular topic of study throughout the intellectual history of Cuba, little scholarship has been dedicated to theorizing the deployment of choteo in exile. Scholarship and mainstream media depictions of the Cuban exile community have traditionally focused on the community's negative affective orientation. This emphasis has led to a lack of scholarship on the important role of the ludic in Cuban exile culture. By offering an analysis of Alvarez Guedes's use of choteo to narrate the evolving political landscape in Miami during the mid-1970s to early 1980s, this article demonstrates how his comedic production helped to consolidate a Cuban exile identity while simultaneously offering trenchant critiques of anti-Cuban sentiment in Miami at the time.

A review essay on books by (1) Israel Reyes, Humor and the Eccentric Text in Puerto Rican Literature (Gainesville: University Press Florida, 2005); (2) Anke Birkenmaier & Roberto Gonzalez Echevarria [Eds], Cuba: Un siglo de literatura (1902-2002) ([Cuba: A Century of Literature] Madrid: Colibri, 2004); (3) Rodrigo Lazo, Writing to Cuba: Filibustering and Cuban Exiles in the United States (Chapel Hill: U North Carolina Press, 2005); & (4) Lillian Guerra, The Myth of Jose Marti: Conflicting Nationalisms in Early Twentieth-Century Cuba (Chapel Hill: U North Carolina Press, 2005).

Sgt Michael E. Klingebiel touched off a heated debate after he sent a humorous and fictitious e-mail message regarding the University of South Florida's police auction. The sergeant's boss fired off a response, condemning what he called Sgt Klingebiel's extremely poor taste and inappropriate act of insensitivity.