We have all experienced them, haven’t we? Those touch-and-go moments in life when we hesitated whether or not to do something, to take a risk. And most of the time it is a fight between the head and the heart. Sometimes the head wins and sometimes the heart. Which one do you think will win … Continue Reading
This is a wonderfully written scene in which lots of things are not directly said but are implied. Let’s see how good you are at inferring things. But first some background…
In this post we’ll have a look at a very short exchange between a customer and tech support about a server problem. Let’s first start with the word “server”…
Cats have a reputation for always landing on their feet, but is it true? Yes, as any cat-owner can tell you, this is mostly true. Cats have a natural balancing system called the “righting reflex”. This system allows cats to orient themselves and land on their feet, not always, but most of the time…
This is from BBC’s Face to Face interview with Bertrand Russell, British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature, in 1959. …
Toponymy is the study of place names (toponyms), their origins, and their meanings, and it can be quite an interesting subject. There are 195 countries in the world today and they have all sorts of names. But where do these names come from?
So who was William Shakespeare? Known as “the bard”, Shakespeare was an author who lived in the Elizabethan era and wrote about a lot of different things. But why is Shakespeare considered such a great artist? In this short video, you’ll get a of who Shakespeare was and what made him special…
Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC since 1963. The programme follows the adventures of a Time Lord called “the Doctor”, an extraterrestrial being who looks like humans. The Doctor explores the universe in a time-travelling space ship called the TARDIS. Its exterior appears as a blue British police … Continue Reading
When a sphere from space lands in New York’s Central Park, the world is faced with a question. The Day the Earth Stood Still is a 2008 American science fiction drama film and a loose adaptation of the 1951 film of the same name. Let’s watch one of its best scenes together: