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Health & Fitness > Depression Depression in the holiday season: Tips for surviving the season: 1 of 16
The sun has not shown its face for weeks-perhaps months, depending on where you live-and you have at least a month or two more of gray skies, cold winds, and slushy sidewalks to endure before the first crocus pokes its purple head through the frozen earth outside the kitchen window. You are exhausted from a busy fall season a... More..
Parenting & Pregnancy > Parenting Styles (Other) Should you let children sip your beer, wine or other alcoholic drinks?: 5 of 35
The issue of alcohol is a complicated one. Alcohol causes innumerable problems, including deaths and ruined lives every day in the United States and around the world, but it is also an ancient and probably inextricable part of many human cultures. We learned the hard way that prohibition is disastrous! The question becomes ev... More..
Arts & Humanities > Writing Tips Conducting an interview: Tips for writers: 1 of 6
As a nonfiction writer, you will often need to use information from other people who are more familiar than yourself with a place, person, event, or other topic. Here are some useful tips for interviewing sources to get the facts you need.BASIC TIPS FOR CONDUCTING AN INTERVIEW1. Select the right person or people to interview.... More..
Arts & Humanities > French Language Bilingual education in Canada's elementary schools: 3 of 9
I remember two things about my first day of kindergarten in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. I took the Metrobus to school, and I must have been nervous about attending classes in a language that I didn't yet speak. "But I don't speak French," I remember saying to my mother as the bus neared Military Road.There was a girl in... More..
Health & Fitness > Herbal & Natural Remedies Pros and cons of using colloidal silver as a substitute for prescription antibiotics: 5 of 11
Colloidal Silver: Risks and BenefitsIntroductionSilver has been used as a drug since ancient times to heal the human body and fight germs. Even into the twentieth century, up to around 1938, colloidal silver was commonly used as medicine; however, it has now virtually disappeared from the repertoire of mainstream medicine. Re... More..
Home & Garden > Weeds & Pests The dandelion: It's more than a weed: 5 of 10
"When the dandelions bloom, it's safe to plant corn," farmers used to say. They even sometimes called this common yellow wildflower time-table; other colorful names used to describe the dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) include blowball, cankerwort, chicoria, dashelflower, gowans, lion's tooth, piss-a-bed, priest's crown, puff... More..
Arts & Humanities > Writing Tips The dividing lines between fiction and non-fiction: 1 of 2
In the wake of the James Frey fiasco and other recent scandals in the world of literature, many nonfiction writers are more concerned than ever about the issue of fictionalized nonfiction. This is not actually a new problem-just read some of the "histories" written in the Middle Ages-nor is it an avoidable one. Every writer m... More..
Arts & Humanities > Languages (Other) Louisiana Creole: 1 of 1
INTRODUCTIONThe study of pidgin and creole languages has much to contribute to our knowledge of language in general. Specifically, to understand how the mind creates language and how human language came to be the way that it is, we must look more deeply into those languages whose creation we have been able to witness more dir... More..
Arts & Humanities > Languages (Other) The ergative case parameter in Georgian: 1 of 1
THE ERGATIVE CASE PARAMETERIN GEORGIANIThe Georgian LanguageGeorgian is the official language of Georgia, a former Soviet republic situated in the Caucasus, between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea. It shares borders with Russia, in the North, and Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Turkey in the East and South. The entire Caucasus are... More..
Education > Educational Philosophy Leonardo Da Vinci: The education of a polymath: 1 of 1
Polymath, Renaissance Man, Homo universalis. Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci painted some of the most astonishing artistic works of all timethe Mona Lisa, the Virgin of the Rocks, the Last Supperbut he was much more than a painter. He was good at sports, science and engineering, singing, playing the viol, and telling jokes. He... More..