First Self-taught sculptor, you should be following on Instagram I sometimes wonder what would it be like if Michelangelo had Instagram. Would he post daily or would he prefer staying anonymous? How m...
Old English started developing after the Germanic tribes invaded the islands. This can be found in the most influential account Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum written by a Catholic monk Bede. ...
Chemex? Barista? Americano? If these terms are close to your heart and you can’t imagine your life without your daily caffeine fix, then I invite you to Turin. If you have not been paying a lot of att...
It is safe to say that many people worldwide, particularly in the west, have heard of Santa Claus, a legendary figure considered the traditional patron of Christmas in the United States, Canada and ma...
We all know that we should maintain a healthy diet filled with plant-based products, stay active throughout the day, shouldn’t smoke, and get 7-9 hours of sleep per night. But there are other small ac...
Na sua vida, algumas coisas não são mais como antes, e isso é normal. Você ainda se lembra de ontem, porque quer você goste ou não, agora faz parte de sua história de vida. Mas, claro, você teve algum...
We all have heard about the myth of Atlantis at some point in our lives. There are many theories and different opinions on this topic and all of them are so interesting and are worth a read. Several w...
When speaking modern English, we use only one second-person pronoun you. It can be used when the speaker is referring to a single person or many. Yet language users can also mention thou which is also...
The problem When linking stains to crime scenes the natural thought is of blood and gore all over the walls. But much of the evidence is latent, or not easily visible to the naked eye. With the modern...
“An Essay Towards the Present and Future Peace of Europe”, written by William Penn, consists of a peace proposal. In the tenth section, the author lists seven benefits that result from it....
Obsessively Searching for Information on the Internet: Cyberchondria The obsessive search for health information on the Internet by individuals is called cyberchondria. This situation results in the d...
It’s this time of the year that ads, retail stores, and decorative street lights start to nudge you into thinking about Christmas. Some Christmas lovers have already planned their gifts and bought the...
Should you buy a lot of presents this Christmas? As the winter holidays are approaching, so is the need to buy presents for our closer ones, but is it a good idea? Should you buy a lot of gifts this C...
Spirit Photography and Spiritualism in the 1800s. We take horror movies and media meant to scare us for granted these days. We go to the cinema, wanting to be spooked, but never really believing in th...
Who is Şükran Moral? Şükran Moral who has been trying to break the Meta of women since the 80s continues to actively work today. The artist rebelling against the cliché judgments of society was born i...
Finger prints are the clear images created under controlled conditions, such as when the police take fingerprints at the police station. Fingermarks are the smeary, partial prints that are found at th...
When we observe an action, parts of the brain responsible for physical action (known as motor networks) become excited. The more familiar the movements are, the greater the excitement. This area of ou...
What is the “Language Planning”? The term “language planning” was first introduced in literature by Haugen (1959). He used it to describe the efforts carried out in Norway to a...
Bernini and the “Bel Composto” How Gian Lorenzo Bernini created a marriage of art, light and architecture in his works Bernini and his background Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598 – ...
The element 108, known as hassium, does not occur in nature and must be created in a particle accelerator. It was invented in 1984 and produced by firing magnesium atoms at curium atoms. Hassium atoms...
In the previous episode, we’ve seen the status planning If you missed it, you can click here: 2. Corpus planning Quoting Wright (2007): “corpus planning is an attempt to change the forms and st...
Previously… National language planning is made up of three elements: status planning, corpus planning, and acquisition planning. The spread of Icelandic The dissemination of the linguistic patte...
Two cities united by a date Let’s analyse two of the most interesting metropolises of the United States of America: Philadelphia and San Francisco. Two cities that might differ in appearance but...
Understanding Afrofuture Since the death in 1996 of African photojournalist Mohamed Amin, an inconspicuous back room in Nairobi, Kenya has been locked off from the public, maintained only by two solit...
Technology is advancing faster than ever before. It took roughly ten thousand years to go from writing to printing press, but only five hundred more to get email. Now it seems we are at the dawn of a ...