October 2009
4 posts
BBC NEWS | UK | Scotland | Glasgow, Lanarkshire...
The world’s largest thesaurus is being published after more than 40 years of work by the English Language department of Glasgow University. The Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary has nearly 800,000 meanings, organised into more than 236,000 categories and subcategories. Its 4,500 pages are published in two volumes by Oxford University Press. The project, which started...
Drilling Down - Veteran Critics More Persuasive...
October 19, 2009 Drilling Down For Critics, Soft Approach Can Go Far By ALEX MINDLIN Experts are more persuasive when they seem tentative about their conclusions, a study soon to be published in the Journal of Consumer Research suggests. But the opposite is true of novices, who grow more persuasive with increasing certainty. In one experiment, college students were randomly...
“A new week is coming with a fresh collection of five beautiful must have sans...”
– 5 Must Have Sans Serif Fonts for Web Designers (via feedly)
China celebrates 60 years - The Big Picture -...
China formally kicked off its mass celebrations of 60 years of communist rule with a 60-gun salute that rung out across Beijing’s historic Tiananmen Square earlier today. Hundreds of thousands of participants marched past Tiananmen Square in costume or uniform, with floats and dancers mingling with soldiers and military hardware. Collected here are photographs of the once-in-a-decade...