10 Facts About the Father of Country Music
Ten of the most interesting things about Jimmie Rodgers.
Ten of the most interesting things about Jimmie Rodgers.
Oxford Etymologist, Anatoly Liberman, traces the roots of the word “yeomen.”
Elvin Lim looks at the election results in Iran.
Some entry excerpts from The Oxford Concise Dictionary of Mathematics
An excerpt from Weighing the World.
The authors of A Parent’s Guide to Raising Grieving Children: Rebuilding Your Family after the Death of a Loved One share the answers to some frequently asked questions.
Are you the kind of writer who struggles through a page or who writes twenty in an afternoon?
What Rebecca has been reading.
Peggy Pascoe shares the history of the holiday Loving Day, happening June 12th.
The podictionary word of the week is “technology”.
An excerpt from The European Union: A Very Short Introduction.
Anatoly Liberman demonstrates the difficulty of tracing the origins of every day words–especially considering the lack of consensus among linguists.
What health care reform means to Obama’s legacy.
Nigel Warburton talks about his book Free Speech: A Very Short Introduction.
Ten slang words so hip they don’t even sound like slang.
Science historian Patricia Fara looks at environmentalism.