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Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation
Fascinating, if not slightly unsettling, piece on BBC Radio 4 Today on Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation, a new brain stimulation technique being pioneered at Oxford University that co...
READ MORE | 26 Jan 2012
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New font designed for readers with dyslexia
Nice piece and video presentation on Springwise.com about a new typeface aimed at dyslexics. The new font by Dutch typographers and graphic designers, StudioStudio is specifically created to be r...
READ MORE | 17 Jan 2012
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Language is hardwired to be optimistic, even if people aren’t
Is English a perversely positive language no matter what is going on in the world? i09.com reports on a new study by mathematicians at the University of Vermont that analyzed millions o...
READ MORE | 13 Jan 2012
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Punto y Coma Presentation Video
Happy New Year or should we say, ¡Feliz año nuevo! We've just added to our site a new video presentation of Punto y Coma, the bi-monthly audio magazine for intermediate to advanced speake...
READ MORE | 5 Jan 2012
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Fun piece in the Economist's Johnson column on the British love of euphemism and the wide gap between what we say in certain situations and what we mean. As one commenter perceptively points out, euph...
READ MORE | 16 Dec 2011
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Loose Ends and the Etymologicon
Think that 'gene pool', 'car pool' and 'pooling your resources' have something to do with water? Then you'll need to think again, thanks to Mark Forsyth's new book, Etymologicon, a circular tour throu...
READ MORE | 4 Dec 2011
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The word of the year? 'Squeezed middle' says Oxford Dictionary
It's official: the Oxford English Dictionary have declared 2011’s Word of the Year to be 'Squeezed middle'. The term was originally coined by the Labour leader, Ed Miliband. This...
READ MORE | 24 Nov 2011
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Surely, this must be a first on British TV, a foreign language comedy show with sub-titles. Women! (Vous, les femmes), a sketch show in French and produced in France is currently screening on Fridays...
READ MORE | 16 Nov 2011
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Nice piece on Language Johnson, an Economist blog dedicated to language use, on the recent influx of 'Britishisms' into American English. Apparently, 'kerfuffle', 'snog', 'nick' and 'c...
READ MORE | 15 Nov 2011
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European Ventures Seek to Fill a Void in World News
Stumbled on this fascinating article in the New York Times about three new news services, Worldcrunch, European Daily and Presseurop which take articles from leading European newspapers and trans...
READ MORE | 3 Nov 2011
