How Amazon Got Its Name
In 1994, a Princeton graduate named Jeff Bezos left the New York hedge fund D.E. Shaw, where he had quickly risen through the ranks, to start a new venture. As Brad Stone tells the story in his new...
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A creepy 15th century language experiment took place on this island - io9
A creepy 15th century language experiment took place on this islandio9This is Inchkeith Island, the Scottish Isle with the least romantic history possible. Not only was it a quarantine island for the...
View ArticleO que significa cut corners?
O que significa cut corners? Quando usar essa expressão? continue lendo para aprender quase tudo sobre essa expressão. O Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English define essa expressão assim:...
View ArticleHow to Map a Web Resource to a Local File in Charles
Brush up on your Charles knowledge with our very own Swaraj Banerjee, a member of the Expect Labs...
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Protecting the French language, one lunch break at a time - National Post
National PostProtecting the French language, one lunch break at a timeNational PostThe Office Quebecois de la langue francaise (OQLF) has done it again, springing into action just in the nick of time...
View ArticleSupporting English-Learner Achievement: What States Can Do
The Education Commission of the States outlines a number of policy arenas where states can focus time and energy to help their growing populations of English-learners.
View ArticleCompare Translations.
Via XIX век, what looks like it could be a fantastically useful resource: the website Compare Translations. When it works, as for Proust, Turgenev (Fathers and Sons), or Aeschylus (Seven Against...
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Naming tests: Study on dyslexic versus average children
Rapid Automized Naming (RAN) tests were conducted on 43 average children and 25 with developmental dyslexia. The task involved naming colors, digits, pictures words and word lists displayed multiple...
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"Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if I'd stuck with it."
When you were young, you used to want to be a comic book artist and used to practice drawing all the time. But you stopped drawing and haven't done it for many years. Now you have just seen an old...
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Notes from ¿Qué tal? - g, gu, j
In Spanish, the letter g followed by e or i has the same sound as the letter j followed by any vowel: [x]. It is similar to the English h, although in some dialects is pronounced with a harder sound....
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Memrise Merges Science, Fun and Community to Help Learn Thai Online for Free...
Learn Thai with 'Mems' that Create Vivid, Sensory Memories Memrise Thai is a fun, community-oriented (i.e. 'social') and - gasp! - scientific way to learn Thai online. The idea behind the interface is...
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Memrise Merges Science, Fun and Community to Help Learn Turkish Online for...
Learn Turkish with 'Mems' that Create Vivid, Sensory Memories Memrise Turkish is a fun, community-oriented (i.e. 'social') and - gasp! - scientific way to learn Turkish online. The idea behind the...
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Memrise Merges Science, Fun and Community to Help Learn Vietnamese Online for...
Learn Vietnamese with 'Mems' that Create Vivid, Sensory Memories Memrise Vietnamese is a fun, community-oriented (i.e. 'social') and - gasp! - scientific way to learn Vietnamese online. The idea...
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Academic freedom isn't in Kansas anymore
This story started floating here overnight about the Kansas Board of Regents new policy about social media. The link is from the WaPo blog The Monkey Cage and it's worth reading.Here's the key passage...
View Article2013 Words of the Year
This list serves as a shorthand of our preoccupations for the year 2013. It’s a cross-section of words across all public arenas, flavored with the zeitgeist, powered by emotions and spread through...
View ArticleSneeze, hiccup, cough
Exceedingly few people (almost none) can write the Chinese characters for the Mandarin word for "sneeze" (dǎ pēntì). I suspect that most people would also get one or both of the characters for...
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6 Traditional English Christmas Songs in Spanish
Now that we are getting closer to Christmas Day, the mood is turning more and more festive. If you are visiting a Spanish speaking country during the Holidays you will hear in Spanish some of the...
View ArticleWord of the day: Litmus test
Litmus test was first mentioned in English by Richard Arnold who travelled to and traded with Flanders. Chronicle a potpourri of information on London and matters relating to commerce was published in...
View ArticleWords in the News: Sheer
Hundreds of theatregoers fled after the ceiling of one of the West End’s premier theatres collapsed midway through a packed evening performance last night. At least 700 people were evacuated from the...
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