History is full of silver-tongued scoundrels. So if you find yourself in a 19th-century battle of wits, best not to bring a dagger to a musket fight. The solution for any quantum leaper: Jonathon Green’s new book, Green’s Dictionary of Slang, a 6,200-page lexicon spanning more than half a millennium. Try one of these gems out as you sail through time, you beef-witted dunnigan.
Learning a language at a later stage in your life is hard. Your time is at a premium, and your plate’s already so full that taking on all that new information is a serious challenge. Here’s how to passively attack a new language without much effort or time with the help of technology and the things you already own.
It’s an old adage that practice makes perfect, but studies have shown that passive learning can have a similar impact to active learning. The key is immersing yourself in a language without having to visit another country. The basics of this post come from the idea of task-based learning, or the idea that you learn a language better when you practicing it. Combining that with a passive environment, you will start picking up on words and their meanings.
A big part of travel is that feeling you get when experiencing something completely new, something you haven’t seen or done before. Many travel destinations offer an amenity or two that other places don’t – but there are only a few locations in the world that offer a truly unique experience. Here are some places that could be a reference for your vacation.
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“They went back and they tested it and he came back like 10 minutes later and said, ‘You didn’t happen to purchase cocaine with your textbook did you?'” she said. “I was like ‘No.'” Turns out the package contained about $300-$400 worth of cocaine, which the police confiscated and destroyed.
His Dad bet him $100 that he couldn’t do one backflip (backflip, gainer, wallflip, etc.) each day of 2011…
Microsoft will ship the next version of the Xbox game console in October or November 2013, IGN reports, citing “sources close the the project.”
The gaming news site says that mass production of the system’s GPU will begin at the end of 2012, and will be based on Advanced Micro Devices‘ 6000 series processors. The site says the chip will be similar to the Radeon HD 6670, “which offers support for DirectX11, multidisplay output, 3D and 1080p HD output.”
IGN says that the new console – the Xbox 720 – will have 6x the raw graphics processing power as the 360, and will have 20% higher performance than the new console coming from Nintendo, the Wii U.
According to IGN, developers are likely to receive development kits based on the system’s final configuration in August.
