Mike Foley's blog
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Turn off the spell checker
A friend emailed this message to me a couple of years ago and, in case you haven’t seen it, I thought I would pass it along: I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid! Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch taem at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t […]
China journal: Shanghai’d!
[Blog and photos by Mike Foley: Originally published July 17, 2009] Shanghai, 2006, with the Yellow River and Bund in the foreground In July 2006 a small group of BYU–Hawaii students, professors and family, and I participated in the China Study Abroad program that took us to Shanghai for four weeks of intensive Mandarin and […]
Rhetoric: Misunderstood, not just words
[Story and photo by Mike Foley, originally published in the BYU–Hawaii “electronic newsroom,” February 2, 2009] Clark Dr. Greg Clark, a BYU Provo professor and Associate Dean of the College of Humanities on exchange with BYU-Hawaii’s Dr. Ned Williams, said in the Honors colloquium on January 28 that the ancient art of rhetoric is “often […]
Polynesian caviar, anyone?
We don’t get it naturally here in Hawaii, as far as I know, but I recently saw a post on one of the popular social media websites reminding me that for some of our South Pacific island cousins, this is the season of “Polynesian caviar” — palolo.