The Lepage Primary school in Melbourne has removed the world gay from Australia's iconic song "Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree", to stop children tittering when they sing it. The school's head, Garry Martin, said he did not mean to insult gay people by replacing the word "gay" in the chorus, with the word […]

The publishers of the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford University Press , have said that the latest edition may not be printed. Yes, after more than twenty years of publication, e-dictionaries and reference websites have put paid to a British institution. A team of 80 lexicographers has been working on the third edition since 1989, with […]

Before you decide to drop out of school, college or university, consider this: according to a report published last month in the journal Brain, people with higher levels of education cope better with the damage to the brain associated with old age. Basically, people with more education suffer less from dementia. So, keep on learning.

We've been talking about WalMart. Today's reading was taken from: http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/77/walmart.html We'll be discussing some of the issues raised in the article. How much is too much?Are we shopping ourselves out of jobs? Here are some links:- http://www.walmart.com/http://jobs.lovetoknow.com/Wal-Mart_Jobshttp://mises.org/daily/2219

A system of systems. A sea of data to drown in. A central nervous system for the planet. This has been the discussion topic on Wednesday's iVisit session for the past couple of weeks. Do we actually want this?

English-speakers in America and the UK have adopted the German word "über" (or "uber") in everyday conversation. But, as often happens with adopted words, it has taken on a new, decidedly un-German, life of its own. First of all, in English, there's no umlaut. In German, the word is usually used as a preposition (it […]