World AIDS Day: Africa Still Suffers
Filed in A-Featured & Current Events & Health & History & World History | November 30, 2007
We celebrate World AIDS Day.
Archive for November, 2007
Friday Procrastination: Link Love
Filed in A-Featured & Blogs | November 30, 2007
What Rebecca has been reading this week.
This Day In History: King Tut’s Tomb Opened
Filed in A-Featured & Archaeology & World History | November 29, 2007
A look into ancient Egypt.
The Shocking Story of “Tase”
Filed in A-Featured & Dictionaries & From A To Zimmer & Lexicography | November 29, 2007
Ben Zimmer looks at the word taze/tase.
Very Short Introductions: International Migration
Filed in A-Featured & Geography & Politics & UK & VSI | November 29, 2007
Khalid Koser answers a few questions on his book International Migration: A Very Short Introduction.
Sex With Mae West
Filed in A-Featured & American History & Biography & Film & Leisure | November 28, 2007
An excerpt from Mae West: An Icon in Black and White.
Monthly Gleanings
Filed in A-Featured & Lexicography & Oxford Etymologist | November 28, 2007
Anatoly answers readers’ questions and looks at the origins of bigot.
Calais, Maine
Filed in A-Featured & Ben's Place of the Week & Geography | November 27, 2007
Ben’s Place of the Week is Calais.
On Coleridge, Faust and the Love of Books
Filed in A-Featured & Literature & Poetry & Prose | November 27, 2007
A look at Faustus translated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Snake Oil Science: The Use of Placebos in Research
Filed in A-Featured & Health & Medical Mondays & Psychology & Science | November 26, 2007
An excerpt from Snake Oil Science.
