Idiomatic English
A collection of common English idioms explained for speakers of English as a second language.
Topic
Interesting links
A collection of 113 issues
Twenty common science myths
Chicken soup not good for colds; yawning not contagious; water drains backwards in the southern hemisphere LiveScience.com demolishes your illusions.
Is Jamie Oliver barking up the wrong tree?
A lengthy report in the New York Times Magazine discusses whether making school meals healthier makes children healthier.
Feelings for a new baby
A new mother posts on Ask Metafilter that she worries her newborn baby doesn’t like her (and that she doesn’t like the baby much either). It sparks off a thoughtful and insightful set of responses about post-natal depression (post-partum mood disorder).
Metafilter post about Cricket
I done posted to Metafilter.
Why Europe has mild winters
and, no, it’s not the Gulf Stream.
The goat is on a pole!
What more can I say? An excellent parody (I hope) of fake mysticism.
Manual or automatic transmission?
Metafilter discusses the decline of manual transmission in the US.
Number of the Beast
Everything you wanted to know about 666, courtesy of absoluteastronomy.com.
Citicorp building, NYC
The excellent Damn Interesting tells the story of the Citicorp building on Lexington Avenue, an imposing New York skyscraper, which due to a minor change of plan during construction, was almost blown down by the wind.