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Wacky weather and silly season jokes : laugh and learn about science
\"Learn about sun, rain, tornadoes, snow, the reason for the seasons, and more. Read jokes about all of these topics, and learn how to write your own\"--Provided by publisher.
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“That's really clever!” Ironic hyperbole understanding in children
Hyperbole supports irony comprehension in adults by heightening the contrast between what is said and the actual situation. Because young children do not perceive the communication situation as a whole, but rather give precedence to either the utterance or the context, we predicted that hyperbole would reduce irony comprehension in six-year-olds (n = 40) by overemphasizing what was said. By contrast, ten-year-olds (n = 40) would benefit from hyperbole in the way that adults do, as they would perceive the utterance and context as a whole, highlighted by the speaker's ironic intent. Short animated cartoons featuring ironic criticisms were shown to participants. We assessed comprehension of the speaker's belief and speaker's intent. Results supported our predictions. The development of mentalization during school years and its impact on the development of irony comprehension is discussed.
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Shopfloor Cultures: The Idioculture of Production in Operational Meteorology
Each workplace operates within a cultural context in which local features of interaction influence how employees conceptualize their workplace self. Building on small-group research, I argue that understanding these idiocultures as action arenas helps to specify how group knowledge, practices, and beliefs are expressed and affect occupational identity. To demonstrate the power of microcultures, I analyzed local offices of the National Weather Service (NWS) through ethnographic methods. I focused on the Chicago office, demonstrating how its culture, which emphasizes autonomy and resistance to authority, shapes the staff's images of scientific practice and the contours of being a scientist. The culture is revealed in their joking relations as well as in other office traditions. I then compared this culture with that of Flowerland, a spin-up office established in the 1990s. These two offices use their cultures to differentiate themselves, creating distinct work practices. As all work groups have local cultures, giving greater attention to small-group dynamics helps us understand how workers define themselves, how cultures differ, and how the effects of these differences shape the experience of work.
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Towards evidence based emergency medicine: best BETs from the Manchester Royal Infirmary. Weather dependent nasal erythema in reindeer (Rangifer tarandus)
A short cut review was carried out to establish whether nasal erythema in a reindeer might be a useful navigational aid on Christmas Eve. From a search of nine papers, five presented evidence relevant to the question. The author, date and country of publication, \"subjects\" studied, study type, relevant outcomes, results and study weaknesses of these papers are presented in table 3. The clinical bottom line is that a reindeer with a red nose at rest at the North Pole would not inspire confidence.
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Rationalizations from an aspiring snowbird
Between being buried in sequential snowstorms and enduring bone-chilling bitter cold, people from New York to California and even down to Atlanta have seen the effects: airports closed, livestock dead, 1,500 car traffic jams under two feet of snow and people freezing to death in their homes. After a snowstorm deposited six inches of snow in Atlanta, paralyzing the city and the airport, my trip to Key West was to be extended by four days, until Delta could guarantee a flight out. A recalled perspective As a youngster I spent many hours outside, swimming at the park across the street from my house, playing tennis and softball, and riding my Schwinn bike.
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Tuesday Night Is Nut Loaf: Women's Music-Festival Foods
As the title suggests, this essay is a humorous but appreciative look at the cuisine of lesbian/feminist music festivals, which since 1974 have ranged from one-day events to two-week campouts in almost all of the fifty American states. Fans of the women's music movement—which long before Lilith Fair had introduced artists as diverse as Holly Near, Toshi Reagon, Melissa Etheridge, and the Indigo Girls—enjoy several days of concerts and receive meals with their festival packages. These usually vegetarian repasts are an entire subculture of humor and socializing around “lesbian food” of a certain era. How is food important, politically, to this feisty community? How do workers prepare meals for up to 8,000 shirtless women in the woods, in all kinds of weather? And in this very informed, radical community, is the traditionalwomen's workof cooking and cleaning truly respected—or, ironically, taken for granted?
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Odd Lives
A sampling of the work of Robert Malcolm called The Prince of Palagonia is presented with the singular fancy of the Sicilian nobleman to whom it relates is variously ascribed to eccentricity of humor, or derangement of intellect. The prince, a man of immense fortune, devoted his whole life to the study of monsters and chimeras, greater and more ridiculous than ever entered into the imagination of the wildest writers of romance or knight-errantry.
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