The follow-up to an earlier post with fifteen wonderful words with no English, the plainly titled fourteen more words with no English equivalent has been posted at Mental Floss. Personal favourites from this list include: Shemomedjamo (Georgian) You know when you’re really full, but your meal is just so delicious, you can’t stop eating it? …
Dan Phillips is one of the bloggers at Pyromaniacs. World-Tilting Gospel is a book written by him, published by Kregel Publishers. It is currently, for a limited time, available as a free Kindle download. I imagine it will be a punchy, pithy and insightful read. Here’s the description from Amazon. The first generation of Christians …
September 22 is Hobbit Day, the birthday of J.R.R. Tolkien’s literary creations Bilbo and Frodo Baggins.
What is the space of creativity? Turns out that it’s the Coffee Shop. In the 1600s people started drinking coffee and tea, which are stimulants, to purify their water instead of various forms of alcohol, a relaxant. Ideas ensued. Author Steven Johnson delivers a TED talk in which he speaks about the environments which cultivate …
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