{"id":92113,"date":"2015-11-19T09:20:46","date_gmt":"2015-11-19T14:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=92113"},"modified":"2015-11-19T11:02:22","modified_gmt":"2015-11-19T16:02:22","slug":"where-science-meets-superstition-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/19\/where-science-meets-superstition-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Science Meets Superstition, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_92115\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/almanacs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-92115\" class=\"wp-image-92115\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/almanacs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/almanacs.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/almanacs-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-92115\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trustworthy enough.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>With the National Book Awards over and done with, we can turn our attention to a more pressing matter: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2015\/nov\/18\/bad-sex-award-2015-the-contenders-in-quotes\" target=\"_blank\">the annual <em>Literary Review<\/em>\u2019s Bad Sex in Fiction Award<\/a>. As a close follower of this prize, I can assure you that this year\u2019s nominees have written some of the best worst sex in its illustrious history. The competition is stiff. E.g.: \u201cGwennie shoved him in though she was dry. He shut his eyes and thought of mangoes, split papayas, fruits tart and sweet and dripping with juice, and then it was off, and he groaned and his whole body turned sweet.\u201d Or: \u201cShe stroked my pole and took off my briefs, and I got between her and spread her muscular thighs with my knees and rubbed myself against her until she was wet as a waterslide, and then I split her.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Wyatt Mason thinks you should read <em>War Music<\/em>, Christopher Logue\u2019s version of the <em>Iliad<\/em>. If you\u2019ve always found Homer boring, then Logue\u2019s is the <em>Iliad<\/em> for you\u2014he translated it even though he couldn\u2019t read Greek. \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/11\/22\/magazine\/letter-of-recommendation-christopher-logue-war-music.html?mtrref=undefined\" target=\"_blank\">His Homer sounds like no version of that ancient story you\u2019ve ever heard \u2026 This is not Homer: it\u2019s Logue\u2019s Homer<\/a>. Like all translations, it departs fundamentally from the language of the original. Unlike many translations, it arrives at a version that, because of its radical departures, gets us closer to the original than many more defensibly \u2018faithful\u2019 translations have ever managed \u2026 He died before he could conclude much more than half of a full account of those ancient sounds. But, oh, what he managed to leave us: a vision of Homer as intimate and alive as a breath.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Look alive, people. These are the days of the winner-take-all economy, the days when only a handful of novels each year attain \u201cmust-read\u201d status\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/betting-big-on-literary-newcomers-1447880214\" target=\"_blank\">the days of the seven-figure advance for debut novels<\/a>. \u201cThe lack of a sales track record is one of the factors that makes debut authors most appealing, publishers say, because there is no hard data to dampen expectations \u2026 Some worry that large payouts for debut novels could do more harm than good. They put pressure on first-time authors and consume resources that otherwise might go to authors who have posted moderate sales, some agents and publishing executives said \u2026 Moreover, if the book doesn\u2019t turn a profit, the relationship between the author and publisher can sour. And those disappointing sales figures are available for any other publisher to peruse when the author tries to sell her next novel.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Delete your weather app, turn off your GPS, and purge weather.com from your bookmarks\u2014all you really need is <em>The Old Farmer\u2019s Almanac<\/em>, which has been hailed for its accuracy since 1792. It remains, in its stubborn way, a forerunner of the Information Age: \u201c<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2015\/11\/how-the-old-farmers-almanac-previewed-the-information-age\/415836\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Old Farmer\u2019s Almanac <\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2015\/11\/how-the-old-farmers-almanac-previewed-the-information-age\/415836\/\">has long had a reputation for getting the forecast right, and doing so on an outlandish timescale<\/a>. In the 1930s and 1940s, people would write to the <em>Almanac<\/em> to ask about weather conditions for specific days, months in advance. Brides wanted sunshine for their wedding days; rabbis would ask for the exact time of sunset in a certain city, so they could plan the lighting of altar candles \u2026 <em>The Old Farmer\u2019s Almanac<\/em> didn\u2019t have to be right all the time, it just had to be right most of the time. The perception that it was is a big part of why the <em>Almanac<\/em> has endured.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Today in wishful thinking: using the power of language, you can see a positive trend in any outcome, any set of data. Suddenly, significance is everywhere. Scientists learned this lesson a long time ago, as <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2015\/11\/16\/500-phrases-from-scientific-pu.html\" target=\"_blank\">this list of weasel words from their research papers<\/a> suggests: \u201ca margin at the edge of significance,\u201d \u201ca marginal trend toward significance,\u201d \u201ca near-significant trend,\u201d \u201ca clear tendency to significance,\u201d \u201ca barely detectable statistically significant difference\u201d \u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the National Book Awards over and done with, we can turn our attention to a more pressing matter: the annual Literary Review\u2019s Bad Sex in Fiction Award. As a close follower of this prize, I can assure you that this year\u2019s nominees have written some of the best worst sex in its illustrious history. 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