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Eyjafjallajökull - Thats Easy For You To Say ! Eyja   fjalla   jökull It's not LL as in miller. It's TL as in antler. Stress is on syllables shown in bold. "Eyja" - island - ayuh…

Many Americans go to foreign news sources for coverage of the war in Iraq and Palestinian-Israeli conflict because western media outlets censor gruesome war-time images, according to a study in Media…

Electronic readers allow children to interact with texts in ways they don't interact with the printed word, encouraging them to read, according to Kansas State University professor of Education Lotta…

This is just to mention that I have been blogging for this site for exactly one year. During the last twelve months here I have observed a few changes from the old blog which I ran at wordpress.…

Life and health insurance companies are greedy, for-profit enterprises that do not care about public health, according to Harvard researchers writing in the American Journal of Public Health. Why…

If church attendance is any indication, Americans are as religious as they were 30 years ago. But the makeup of the nation's congregations has undergone significant changes during that same stretch,…

Biology is entering a period where the science can be underlaid by explanatory and predictive principles, rather than little bits of causality swimming in a sea of phenomenology. - Eric Davidson,…

Star LegoI just came across this excellent YouTube video. Enjoy!

Arctic Bright Another little poem which I hope will be of use to educators and students of EFL. Please feel free to copy for educational purpose or other, similar fair use, with attributions. Arctic…

I withdrew from blogging for a while to garden. Wild violet patrol has been my mission and freelance gig. Wild violets – a.k.a. Viola papilionacea (or one of the several other species…