Never mind learning by doing, how about learning by dreaming? According to a study carried out at Harvard Medical School, dreaming is the brain's way of learning and making sense of the world. People who nap and dream about a task they have just learned perform it better when they wake up than those who […]
A nice play on the words "dressed to kill" which simply means to be dressed to impress, but replacing the word "kill" with "kilt", the Scottish national dress.
The President of the Philippines, Gloria Arroyo, said that schools nationwide must revert to using English as the medium of instruction to make Filipinos globally competitive. “If we really want to compete globally, we have to bring back English as our medium of instruction because that is the language of technology,” Mrs. Arroyo said in […]
Inspired by the recent "greedy scoundrel" insult handed out by an Indonesian student to his marching band mentor (which earned him a six month suspended sentence) Here's a list of wittier insults that I hope will inspire him. "I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here."- Stephen Bishop "He is a […]
Here in the United Kingdom we are supposed to have four seasons, each of about three months long; winter, spring, summer and autumn (fall in America) - though sometimes we seem to get them all in one day: There's an English saying, "If you don't like the weather, wait a few minutes and it will change".
The local drinking hole Originally uploaded by waɪ.tiː "The local drinking hole" is slang for a pub or bar where you can get a drink. In this photo you'll notice this is the bird's local drinking hole.