Rules for a prescriptive grammar

There is no shortage of grammars, particularly of English, which will tell you how you must write a […]

VR – is it ready yet?

Virtual reality (VR) is hardly new, nor experimental. Aircraft pilots and ships’ crews have been training in VR […]

Oil paints have been used for centuries in most of Europe’s greatest paintings, together worth far more than […]

Paul Cézanne has been repeatedly described as the ‘father’ of several of the major movements in painting which […]

So how should we respond to proposed European legislation to limit artists’ materials containing environmentally harmful substances, like […]

To the devout speaker of British English, the word diaper might seem anathema. To see the BBC, still […]

I get a lot of press releases, but few are as strange and fascinating as that from MJ […]

There are relatively few movies – either full programmes or YouTube videos – about languages or linguistics. Two […]

Are you a synaesthete – someone who experiences sensations in a different sense when experiencing other sensory modalities? […]

“Lonely Planet’s Instant Expert. A Visual Guide to the Skills You’ve Always Wanted.” by Nigel Holmes Lonely Planet […]