I get a kick out of these articles that talk of "risk of death". Isn’t the risk of death always 100% for all of us? How can an activity possibly increase our risk of death? It’s absurd language, and yet it appears daily in our media. Experts: Sitting too much could be deadly – Yahoo! [...]
Posts from ‘January, 2010’
Language Symposium, Northwestern University
Language Symposium | CLI | Northwestern University Language Symposium 2010Dates: Friday, April 16 – Saturday, April 17, 2010Place: University of ChicagoTheme: Best Practices in Language InstructionKeynote Speaker: TBA
Some very good deals for travel within East Asia
If you’re living in East Asia and thinking of taking a trip in the region soon, you should check out http://goholiday.airasia.com.
Be afraid. Be very, very afraid. Please.
So, ten times the number of children, and presumably people in general, caught H1N1 than doctors thought. What this means is that the virus is even less serious than we already thought. In fact, is it in any worse than a really bad cold or normal flu? I think not. And how much money exactly [...]