Leaps of Faith: Or Word Myths
Marc, our intern, learns a personal lesson from Word Myths.
Marc, our intern, learns a personal lesson from Word Myths.
What Kirsty has been reading in Oxford.
How would you communicate with an alien? A look at how Science Fiction authors tackled the problem.
Benjamin Carp looks at tea parties in historical perspective.
How many words are in the English language?
The podictionary word of the week is “crass”.
A selection of entries from The Oxford Dictionary of Political Quotations around budgets, recession, and money.
A look inside the writing process of Terry Riley’s In C.
Anatoly investigates the origin of the word ‘race.’
A look at environmental restoration and the way these attempts at bringing back healthy ecosystems are succeeding and failing.
An excerpt from ‘Planet Narnia’ by Michael Ward, the basis for the recent BBC documentary ‘The Narnia Code’.
Frederick Grinnell looks at conflict-of-interest in scientific research.
A look at how the Somali Pirates fit into Africa and the world.
What do the first 100 days of a Presidency tell us?
A look at comparative cognition.
The word in the window this week is…