{"id":52722,"date":"2013-05-21T09:30:03","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T13:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=52722"},"modified":"2013-05-21T10:41:59","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T14:41:59","slug":"nobel-tweets-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/21\/nobel-tweets-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Nobel Tweets, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/NobelTweetLarge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/NobelTweetLarge.jpg\" alt=\"NobelTweetLarge\" width=\"600\" height=\"366\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-52723\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/NobelTweetLarge.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/NobelTweetLarge-300x183.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<li>From <em>The Hairpin<\/em>, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/thehairpin.com\/2013\/05\/etymological-origins-of-words-related-to-insults\" target=\"_blank\">Etymological Origins of Words Related to Insults<\/a>.\u201d (And we really like that <em>nice<\/em> is on there.)<\/li>\n<li>A little <a href=\"http:\/\/flavorwire.com\/392332\/incredible-reading-rooms-around-the-world\" target=\"_blank\">reading-room escapism<\/a> to brighten your Tuesday.<\/li>\n<li>\u201c5 candidates have been selected for 2013 #NobelPrize in #Literature according to Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy.\u201d A rather innocuous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/books\/10070378\/Swedish-Academy-tweet-sparks-frenzied-Nobel-speculation.html\" target=\"_blank\">tweet by the Swedish Academy <\/a>(yes) has launched a flurry of Nobel speculation.<\/li>\n<li>Angry Wikipedia revenge-editor Qworty turns out to be novelist Robert Clark Young. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2013\/05\/17\/revenge_ego_and_the_corruption_of_wikipedia\/\" target=\"_blank\">Writes Andrew Leonard<\/a>, dramatically, \u201cQworty\u2019s edits undermine our faith in this great project. Qworty\u2019s edits prove that Wikipedia\u2019s content can be shaped by people settling grudges and acting out of spite and envy. Qworty alone, by his own account, has made 13,000 edits to Wikipedia. And Qworty, as the record will show, is not to be trusted.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Hairpin, \u201cEtymological Origins of Words Related to Insults.\u201d (And we really like that nice is on there.) A little reading-room escapism to brighten your Tuesday. \u201c5 candidates have been selected for 2013 #NobelPrize in #Literature according to Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy.\u201d A rather innocuous tweet by the Swedish Academy (yes) has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2512],"tags":[10882,4279,10913,1291],"class_list":["post-52722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-the-shelf","tag-etymology","tag-nobel-prize","tag-robert-clark-young","tag-wikipedia"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Nobel Tweets, and Other News by Sadie Stein<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"May 21, 2013 \u2013 From The Hairpin, \u201cEtymological Origins of Words Related to Insults.\u201d (And we really like that nice is on there.) 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