May 2013
6 posts
April 2013
5 posts
March 2013
6 posts
You Are Boring →
pedstrom:
via your monkey called
February 2013
2 posts
7 Words that Came About from People Getting Them... →
nevver:
PEA
Originally the word was “pease,” and it was singular.The sound on the end was reanalyzed as a plural ‘s’ marker.
CHERRY
The same thing happened to “cherise” or “cheris,” which came from Old French “cherise” and was reanalyzed as a plural. So the singular “cherry” was born.
APRON
Originally “napron” often enough as “an apron” that by the 1600s the “n” was dropped.
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January 2013
1 post
December 2012
7 posts
“Wherever your life ends, it is all there. The utility of living consists not in...”
– Montaigne on death and the art of living – half a millennium later, still an indispensable read. (via explore-blog)
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you...”
– Mark Twain (via: always-and-forever-mine)
November 2012
3 posts
October 2012
6 posts
Brisbane Zombie Walk →
“1. Do not feel absolutely certain of anything.”
– Bertrand Russell’s 10 commandments of teaching (and learning)
September 2012
4 posts
“No, you can’t deny women their basic rights and pretend it’s about your...”
– President Barack Obama
August 2012
2 posts
July 2012
2 posts
June 2012
2 posts
May 2012
7 posts
“There’s no competitive advantage today in knowing more than the person next to...”
– Harvard’s Tony Wagner, author of Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World, speaking at Skillshare’s Penny 2012 conference.
Wagner’s insights echo John Seely Brown’s in the excellent A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant... 