How to say : Short and long consonants
[youtube=http://youtu.be/t7Rs-2b-1og] This week’s How to say is a bit different although very important with respect...
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TED Tuesday: Nerdcore comedy
Performer and web toymaker Ze Frank delivers a hilarious nerdcore stand-up routine, then tells us...
9 types of intelligence
[Image source] When we talk about someone intelligent, we usually mean it in a way...
Sunday Spotlight: Ancient scripts
[Image source: AncientScripts.com] While there are numerous good resources available on the Internet to the...
Sunday Spotlight: Ethnologue
Ethnologue is an encyclopaedic reference work cataloguing all of the world’s 6,912 known living languages....
Decoding antiquity
Development of language and writing as means of communication has been one of the most...
Sumerian cosmology
[Image source: Zecharia Sitchin’s wesbite] This blog entry was originally going to be a summary...
From “xocolatl” to chocolate
Yesterday was Valentine’s Day and it still is in some parts of the world depending on...