by Richard
The Oxford English Dictionary is the gold standard for dictionaries. This is the one you always found in some remote corner of the library, open on its own wooden stand. It had to have its own stand because it was far too big to ever fit on one of those shelves. Puny shelves, leave Hulk OED [...]
by Richard
The middle young dude, Zippy the Monkey Boy, goes to a private school, which means we pay (out the nose) for his education. And the lovely thing is this means it’s like he’s going to college for four years before he goes to college.
Anyway, there are times when he’s overjoyed to be going there and [...]
by Richard
Your brain is a muscle, dude. And, just like every other muscle in your body, you’ve got to exercise it if you want it to perform when it’s needed.
Last month, a research team from UC San Francisco (said) that practicing simple visual tasks can improve the accuracy of short-term or working visual memory.
At the same [...]