Posted by: Kat on: Thursday, 26 February 2009
Nadya Vessey lost her legs as a child and thought it would be cool to be a mermaid. Who wouldn’t?
clipped from www.stuff.co.nz
Ms Vessey’s mermaid tail was created by Wellington-based film industry wizards Weta Workshop after the Auckland woman wrote to them two years ago asking if they could make her a prosthetic [...]
Posted by: Kat on: Friday, 13 February 2009
clipped from www.time.com
children’s socioeconomic status tends to correlate with their language facility. The better off and more educated a child’s parents are, the more verbal that child tends to be by school age — and vocabulary skill is a key predictor for success in school. Children from low-income families, who may often start [...]
Posted by: Kat on: Friday, 13 February 2009
clipped from youdecide.hubblesite.org
You’re In Control! In 1609, Galileo turned his telescope on the night sky for the first time. Now, 400 years later, your vote will help make the momentous decision of where to point modern astronomy’s most famous telescope. “Hubble’s Next Discovery — You Decide” is part of the International Year of [...]
Posted by: Kat on: Tuesday, 3 February 2009
More at the source.
clipped from www.delsquacho.com
as a public service to regular folks who appreciate lofty grammatical ideas such as punctuation and spelling, we thought we’d translate some of the more outlandish comments into standard English. We should also point out that in many cases, we just had to guess. And [...]
