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Truth about Chinese prisons [UPDATE]", "url": "https://metaphorhacker.net/2011/05/when-is-subtle-manipulation-of-data-a-flat-out-lie-truth-about-chinese-prisons/", "published_at": "2011-05-02T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087a4-4ffc-71d8-9342-d6475b09270a", "title": "I object: A male feminist's view on the Duchess of Cambridge's Wedding dress", "url": "https://metaphorhacker.net/2011/04/i-object-a-male-feminists-view-on-the-dutches-of-cambridges-wedding-dress/", "published_at": "2011-04-29T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087a4-4ffc-71d8-9342-d6475b2d760b", "title": "Poetry without metaphor? Sure but can it darn your socks?", "url": "https://metaphorhacker.net/2011/04/poetry-without-metaphor-sure-but-can-it-darn-your-socks/", "published_at": "2011-04-24T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087a4-4ffc-71d8-9342-d6475b9f088b", "title": "Religion, if it exists, is negotiation of underdetermined metaphoric cognition [UPDATED]", "url": "https://metaphorhacker.net/2011/04/religion-if-it-exists-is-negotiation-of-underdetermined-metaphoric-cognition/", "published_at": "2011-04-09T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087a4-4ffc-71d8-9342-d6475c5c8038", "title": "Life expectancy and the length and value of life: On a historical overimagination", "url": "https://metaphorhacker.net/2011/04/life-expectancy-and-the-length-and-value-of-life-on-a-historical-overimagination/", "published_at": "2011-04-05T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087a4-4ffc-71d8-9342-d6475cf7eadc", "title": "Why don't metaphorical hawks kill metaphorical doves?", "url": "https://metaphorhacker.net/2011/04/why-dont-metaphorical-hawks-kill-metaphorical-doves/", "published_at": "2011-04-03T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087a4-4ffc-71d8-9342-d6475d508816", "title": "Are we the masters of our morality? Yes!", "url": "https://metaphorhacker.net/2011/03/are-we-the-masters-of-our-morality-yes/", "published_at": "2011-03-26T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087a4-4ffc-71d8-9342-d6475da7475e", "title": "Comedian identifies a critical flaw in structuralism: Are distinctive features like leather sleeves", "url": "https://metaphorhacker.net/2011/03/comedian-identifies-a-critical-flaw-in-structuralism-are-distinctive-features-like-leather-sleeves/", "published_at": "2011-03-24T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087a4-4ffc-71d8-9342-d6475e6c89fb", "title": "Epistemology as ethics: Decisions and judgments not methods and solutions for evidence-based practice", "url": "https://metaphorhacker.net/2011/03/epistemology-as-ethics-decisions-and-judgments-not-methods-and-solutions-for-evidence-based-practice/", "published_at": "2011-03-20T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087a4-4ffc-71d8-9342-d6475e9225d8", "title": "Do science fiction writers dream of fascist dictatorships?", "url": "https://metaphorhacker.net/2011/03/do-science-fiction-writers-dream-of-fascist-dictatorships/", "published_at": "2011-03-13T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087a4-4ffc-71d8-9342-d6475e9545c1", "title": "The brain is a bad metaphor for language", "url": "https://metaphorhacker.net/2011/03/the-brain-is-a-bad-metaphor-for-language/", "published_at": "2011-03-11T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087a4-4ffc-71d8-9342-d6475f72d664", "title": "Literally: Triumph of pet peeve over matter", "url": "https://metaphorhacker.net/2011/02/literally-triumph-of-pet-peeve-over-matter/", "published_at": "2011-02-23T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087a4-4ffc-71d8-9342-d64760678d16", "title": "The most ridiculous metaphor of education courtesy of an economics professor", "url": "https://metaphorhacker.net/2011/02/the-most-ridiculous-metaphor-of-education/", "published_at": "2011-02-20T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087a4-4ffc-71d8-9342-d64761488cce", "title": "Philosophers’ songbook #philbitescomp", "url": "https://metaphorhacker.net/2010/08/philosophers-songbook-philbitescomp/", "published_at": "2010-08-17T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087a4-4ffc-71d8-9342-d647620f1433", "title": "Metaphor is my co-pilot: How the literal and metaphorical rely on the same type of knowledge", "url": "https://metaphorhacker.net/2010/08/metaphor-is-my-co-pilot-how-the-literal-and-metaphorical-rely-on-the-same-type-of-knowledge/", "published_at": "2010-08-06T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087a4-4ffc-71d8-9342-d6476299f491", "title": "The Tortoise and the Hare: Analogy for Academia in the Digital World?", "url": "https://metaphorhacker.net/2010/08/the-tortoise-and-the-hare-analogy-for-academia-in-the-digital-world/", "published_at": "2010-08-04T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087a4-4ffc-71d8-9342-d647630dc31d", "title": "Why Chomsky doesn't count as a gifted linguist", "url": "https://metaphorhacker.net/2010/08/why-chomsky-doesnt-count-as-a-gifted-linguist/", "published_at": "2010-08-01T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087a4-4ffc-71d8-9342-d64763ac70ac", "title": "Why ideas aren't enough to solve the Palestine-Israeli conflict", "url": "https://metaphorhacker.net/2010/07/why-ideas-arent-enough-to-solve-the-palestine-israeli-conflict/", "published_at": "2010-07-30T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087a4-4ffc-71d8-9342-d647641a1d0a", "title": "I write like… a new more sophisticated stripper name?", "url": "https://metaphorhacker.net/2010/07/i-write-like-a-new-more-sophisticated-stripper-name/", "published_at": "2010-07-22T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087a4-4ffc-71d8-9342-d64764782da3", "title": "What it's not about so much about", "url": "https://metaphorhacker.net/2010/07/what-its-not-about-so-much/", "published_at": "2010-07-21T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087a4-4ffc-71d8-9342-d6476501c08f", "title": "Hacking a metaphor in five steps", "url": "https://metaphorhacker.net/2010/07/hacking-a-metaphor-in-five-steps/", "published_at": "2010-07-18T00:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087a4-4ffc-71d8-9342-d64765a3494e", "title": "What it’s all About", "url": "https://metaphorhacker.net/2010/07/what-its-all-about/", "published_at": "2010-07-18T00:00:00+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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2025

Schemas and Propositions: What and where I've been writing and what's nextoriginal ↗
24 Aug 2025

2023

Narrative vs Ruminative Sense making: The Mind Red in Tooth and Claworiginal ↗
5 Aug 2023

2022

Improving academic writing: Four books to read during #AcWriMooriginal ↗
30 Oct 2022
Unintentional Pygmalions: 4 questions to ask when checking an artificial entity for sentience and how to think about the answersoriginal ↗
9 Aug 2022
Learning is a Journey: Consequences of a metaphororiginal ↗
13 Jun 2022
3 fundamental problems of translating metaphor (or anything else)original ↗
6 Mar 2022

2021

World as a directly meaningful place: A comment on Ecological Psychology and the richness of human experienceoriginal ↗
14 Nov 2021
History as weather: A fractal theory of history for Ian Morris, Jared Diamond and CGP Greyoriginal ↗
3 Jun 2021
Why I am a feminist: A reading listoriginal ↗
8 Mar 2021
The nonsense of style: Academic writing should be scrupulous not stylishoriginal ↗
17 Jan 2021
Metaphors and freedom: On Tolkien's notion of allegory vs applicabilityoriginal ↗
1 Jan 2021

2020

No back row, no corridor: Metaphors for online teaching and learningoriginal ↗
28 Jun 2020
It’s not personal, it’s family: Kin, strangers, guests, and the complexity of social obligationoriginal ↗
16 Feb 2020
How to actually write a sentence: The building blocks of written languageoriginal ↗
1 Feb 2020
Potemkin wisdoms, phronesis and Pixar: How wise sayings protect us from meaningoriginal ↗
21 Jan 2020

2019

So you think you have a historical analogy? Revisionist history and anthropology reading listoriginal ↗
8 Sept 2019
Turing tests in Chinese rooms: What does it mean for AI to outperform humansoriginal ↗
23 Jul 2019
Fruit loops and metaphors: Metaphors are not about explaining the abstract through concrete but about the dynamic process of negotiated sensemakingoriginal ↗
14 Jul 2019
5 books on knowledge and expertise: Reading list for exploring the role of knowledge and deliberate practice in the development of expert performanceoriginal ↗
30 Jun 2019
Writing as translation and translation as commitment: Why is (academic) writing so hard?original ↗
15 Jun 2019
5 kinds of understanding and metaphors: Missing pieces in pedagogical taxonomiesoriginal ↗
14 Jun 2019
Explanation is an event, understanding is a process: How (not) to explain anything with metaphororiginal ↗
29 May 2019
What would make linguistics a better science? Science as a metaphororiginal ↗
28 Apr 2019

2018

Cats and butterflies: 2 misunderstood analogies in scientistic discourseoriginal ↗
8 Nov 2018
3 burning issues in the study of metaphororiginal ↗
7 Nov 2018
3 “easy” things that are hard for both humans and AIoriginal ↗
19 Oct 2018
Innovation is bad for business: 3 more ‘I’ words to compare innovation tooriginal ↗
16 Oct 2018
Does machine learning produce mental representations?original ↗
28 May 2018
Not ships in the night: Metaphor and simile as processoriginal ↗
22 May 2018
How to read ‘Women, Fire and Dangerous Things’: Guide to essential reading on human cognitionoriginal ↗
16 May 2018
Therapy for Frege: A brief outline of the theory of everythingoriginal ↗
16 May 2018
10 ways in which music is like language and 8 (more important) ways in which it is notoriginal ↗
19 Mar 2018

2014

What language looks like: Dictionary and grammar are to language what standing on one foot is to runningoriginal ↗
5 Nov 2014
Anthropologists' metaphorical shenanigans: Or how (not) to research metaphororiginal ↗
3 Aug 2014
What does it mean when words 'really' mean something: Dismiss the Missoriginal ↗
17 May 2014
What is not a metaphor: Modelling the world through language, thought, science, or actionoriginal ↗
4 Mar 2014
Linguistics according to Fillmoreoriginal ↗
15 Feb 2014
5 things everybody should know about language: Outline of linguistics' contribution to the liberal arts curriculumoriginal ↗
1 Jan 2014

2013

Binders full of women with mighty pens: What is metonymyoriginal ↗
14 Dec 2013
Three books of the year 2013 and some books of the century 1900-2013original ↗
17 Nov 2013
Pervasiveness of Obliging Metaphors in Thought and Deedoriginal ↗
27 Oct 2013
Storms in all Teacups: The Power and Inequality in the Battle for Science Universalityoriginal ↗
20 Sept 2013
Sunsets, horizons and the language/mind/culture distinctionoriginal ↗
24 Aug 2013
How we use metaphorsoriginal ↗
13 Apr 2013
Do we need a gaming literacy: Literacy metaphor hackoriginal ↗
3 Apr 2013
Framing and constructions as a bridge between cognition and culture: Two Abstracts for Cognitive Futuresoriginal ↗
26 Jan 2013

2012

The complexities of simple: What simple language proponents should know about linguistics [updated]original ↗
28 Sept 2012
Cliches, information and metaphors: Overcoming prejudice with metahor hacking and getting it back againoriginal ↗
26 Aug 2012
Pseudo-education as a weapon: Beyond the ridiculous in linguistic prescriptivismoriginal ↗
9 Aug 2012
Character Assasination through Metaphoric Pomposity: When one metaphor is not enoughoriginal ↗
22 Jul 2012
Who-knows-what-how stories: The scientific and religious knowledge paradoxoriginal ↗
20 Jul 2012
RaAM 9 Abstract: Of Doves and Cocks: Collective Negotiation of a Metaphoric Seductionoriginal ↗
31 Mar 2012
21st Century Educational Voodoooriginal ↗
18 Jan 2012

2011

Moral Compass Metaphor Points to Surprising Placesoriginal ↗
2 Nov 2011
There's more to memory than the brain: Psychologists run clever experiments, make trivial claims, take gullible internet by stormoriginal ↗
17 Jul 2011
The death of a memory: Missing metaphors of remembering and forgetting?original ↗
10 Jul 2011
Killer App is a bad metaphor for historical trends, good for pseudoteachingoriginal ↗
3 Jun 2011
Language learning in literature as a source domain for generative metaphors about anythingoriginal ↗
1 Jun 2011
You don't have to be a xenophobe to think Britain being an island matters, but it helps!original ↗
21 May 2011
The natural logistics of life: The Internet really changes almost nothingoriginal ↗
7 May 2011
When is subtle manipulation of data a flat out lie? Truth about Chinese prisons [UPDATE]original ↗
2 May 2011
I object: A male feminist's view on the Duchess of Cambridge's Wedding dressoriginal ↗
29 Apr 2011
Poetry without metaphor? Sure but can it darn your socks?original ↗
24 Apr 2011
Religion, if it exists, is negotiation of underdetermined metaphoric cognition [UPDATED]original ↗
9 Apr 2011
Life expectancy and the length and value of life: On a historical overimaginationoriginal ↗
5 Apr 2011
Why don't metaphorical hawks kill metaphorical doves?original ↗
3 Apr 2011
Are we the masters of our morality? Yes!original ↗
26 Mar 2011
Comedian identifies a critical flaw in structuralism: Are distinctive features like leather sleevesoriginal ↗
24 Mar 2011
Epistemology as ethics: Decisions and judgments not methods and solutions for evidence-based practiceoriginal ↗
20 Mar 2011
Do science fiction writers dream of fascist dictatorships?original ↗
13 Mar 2011
The brain is a bad metaphor for languageoriginal ↗
11 Mar 2011
Literally: Triumph of pet peeve over matteroriginal ↗
23 Feb 2011
The most ridiculous metaphor of education courtesy of an economics professororiginal ↗
20 Feb 2011

2010

Philosophers’ songbook #philbitescomporiginal ↗
17 Aug 2010
Metaphor is my co-pilot: How the literal and metaphorical rely on the same type of knowledgeoriginal ↗
6 Aug 2010
The Tortoise and the Hare: Analogy for Academia in the Digital World?original ↗
4 Aug 2010
Why Chomsky doesn't count as a gifted linguistoriginal ↗
1 Aug 2010
Why ideas aren't enough to solve the Palestine-Israeli conflictoriginal ↗
30 Jul 2010
I write like… a new more sophisticated stripper name?original ↗
22 Jul 2010
What it's not about so much aboutoriginal ↗
21 Jul 2010
Hacking a metaphor in five stepsoriginal ↗
18 Jul 2010
What it’s all Aboutoriginal ↗
18 Jul 2010