THE FEED: AUG 31ST

What we're reading:

Defining the best
(Guardian): Which is the best free online dictionary?

PhD market share
(Inside Higher Ed): "Ominous clouds on the horizon" for America's dominance of the higher education market

I like it, but what do I do with it?
(Boston Globe): Early books posed similar questions to those that meet today's technological advances

Today's quote:

"It turns out that the colors that our language routinely obliges us to treat as distinct can refine our purely visual sensitivity to certain color differences in reality, so that our brains are trained to exaggerate the distance between shades of color if these have different names in our language. As strange as it may sound, our experience of a Chagall painting actually depends to some extent on whether our language has a word for blue."

~ Guy Deutscher, "Does Your Language Shape How You Think?" (New York Times)

(Via The Economist)

Picture credit: Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com