Education in America
adminMy younger daughter may be going over to the US for high school. I am looking forward to seeing her older sister attend university in the US, but am wary…
Brains work differently in US and Asia
That's what a study done at MIT says. East Asians and Americans were asked to make both absolute and relative judgments about shapes and length of lines in a drawing.…
Spellify Spell Checker for your website
I use Firefox as my browser, much better than Internet Explorer. One of the add-ons I use is a spell checker. But many people don't have a spell checker in…
Love on Campus
William Deresiewicz writes a stupendous article, Love on Campus, for the American Scholar in the style of a literary critic about how English professors are portrayed in the movies these…
Distance Learning and Daylight Saving Time
Daylight Saving Time changes this year in the US on the first Sunday in November (the 4th) at 2 AM. This is a week later than usual. Bush changed it…