In the Loop: March 2024
Clap Loud, Clap Proud
Let's put our hands together for women! Women all over the world deserve a round of applause and March is the time we decide to do that. We should also clap for all the college athletes, even as they destroy your office March Madness bracket. Let's give a big hand for real and pretend Irish folk as they navigate all things green on March 17. And give it up for all of us as we get to enjoy chocolate eggs and chocolate bunnies and chocolate carrots and chocolate lambs. Encore!
We'll be clapping all month long. This month, you will find regular favorites (Editing Q&A, What's the Diff?, Stuff We Like) as well as a brand new feature (aka What a Weird Word). And if you're a fan of songs that clap, we've got a playlist for you. We hope it's cheers (and no jeers) all month long.
Editing Q & A: How to Cite a TikTok Video đź‘Źđź‘Źđź‘Ź
MLA
Higareda, Martha [@marthahigardaofficial. “Double date ! Clapping #clapping.” TikTok, 25 December 2019, https://www.tiktok.com/@marthahigaredaofficial/video/6774587074789068038?lang=en.
Chicago
(@9Gag). 2022. “a round of applause to the good boi 👏👏 (📹 @champgoldenpup) - #dog #goldenretriever #clapping # applause #wholesome #9gag.” TikTok, December 19, 2022. https://www.tiktok.com/@9gag/video/7175820949529611566?lang=en.
APA
Chang, J. [@Joshua Chang]. (2021). I think someone did something similar to this once a while back... tag him/her if anyone did #clapping #funny #lol #relatable #humor #fyp #firsttime [Video]. TikTok. https://www.tiktok.com/@joshchang20/video/6935154772395756806?lang=en
Playlist: Put Your Hands Together for This Playlist (click the image)
What's the Diff?
There are a lot of sneaky words out there—worThere are a lot of sneaky words out there—words with similar spellings, similar sounds, or just similar vibes. Here’s the lowdown on some of those commonly swapped-by-accident words.
Clap (v.): To clap means to strike two things together (perhaps the hands) to produce a percussive noise. Clapping can be used to capture attention, keep a beat, or covey a message like “hurry the heck up.” Clap also means to repeatedly strike the hands together, as in applause.
Applaud (v.): To applaud means to express approval by way of clapping the hands. It is a action to show praise, like a series of self-inflicted high fives.
Cool Guide: Let's Hear It for the Girls
Stuff We Like
Want more brainpower? Well, put your hands together.
Do you remember the song at the end of Revenge of the Nerds? The song that won over all the student population and made Lambda Lambda Lambda the Kings of the Greeks? You are welcome.
A beginner’s guide to palmistry (aka how to read hands).
The record for the longest standing ovation goes to Guillermo del Toro at Cannes. But the record for the longest live standing ovation goes to Placido Domingo (80 minutes!).
Clap on! Clap off! Do you remember The Clapper?
There are a bunch of celebrities who clearly do not know how to clap their hands.
What does it mean when you receive applause in your dreams?
Ah. The slow clap. A classic. Here’s a compilation.
The “high five” is a surprisingly new invention. Thanks, sports!
Steve Reich’s “Clapping Music” as “performed” by Angie Dickinson and Lee Marvin. Or check out this classy version with 5 performers.
A lot of different guys claim to be the “fastest clapper in the world.” If you want to learn how to clap really fast, here’s a tutorial.
If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands. But what if you’re not so sure about it?
A brief history of applause.
Just how accurate is the clap-o-meter? Haha.
What a Weird Word!
Pay It Forward!
Meet Natasha Goldman, PhD! Natasha is President of WISSEN, Inc. and Visiting Researcher at Boston University. She is a higher education consultant, published scholar, and federal grant winner.
Natasha started in the grants world back in the late 80s, during her college years. After college, she chose an academic path, and was a professor for seventeen years, teaching art history and visual culture at a range of institutions, from small, elite, liberal arts colleges to large, public and private universities.
She began cutting her teeth with a large corporate grants firm in 2014 and founded WISSEN in 2018. Natasha loves helping clients formulate grant projects and strategize their priorities. Among others, she has won NSF, NEH, DOJ, Fulbright, Dept. of Labor, EDA, and foundation awards for her clients.
Her book, Memory Passages: Holocaust Memorials in the United States and Germany, was published by Temple University Press (2020). She is a 2018 and 2020 awardee, along with co-director Page Herrlinger, of an NEH Summer Seminar for School Teachers on the topic of “Teaching the Holocaust through Visual Culture.”
You won't want to miss her delightful guest post over on the blog.
