The latest issue of Sky & Telescope has a short article by astronomy professor Andrew Franknoi on a project to address the high cost of college textbooks. OpenStax, a non-profit based at Rice University, has commissioned a series of new … Continue reading
A brief July 26 Time magazine article by Olivia B. Waxman (link) addresses the historical context of Esperanto, and it’s noteworthy for being relatively accurate. For example, she points out that while Esperanto was initially an “invented” language, it quite … Continue reading
From various places on line. (Note that you don’t need to type the quotation marks shown below, and depending on what browser you use and how it’s configured, you can often type searches right into the address bar.) For useless … Continue reading
I’m having trouble believing this one, but then again, maybe it was a mistake for us apes to give up a useful mood indicator, and if so maybe a bioengineered solution is in order. This reminds me that British author … Continue reading
Here are a couple of interesting short segments about the language Esperanto broadcast on British television programs in the last few years. First, Arthur Smith has a short segment on The One Show: And here Kelly Clarkson learns some Esperanto … Continue reading