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Asher

Thinking About Thinking

Are you paying attention or are you browsing inattentively? If you are in the latter camp then.PINK ELEPHANTS. I'm glad I have your attention. Always get their attention, so I've...
Asher

2015: The Year to Kill of the New Year`s Resolution

2014 was the year you would actually fulfil your New Year's Resolution - or so you told yourself. This ceremonial thought has played out year after year like an annual Groundhog Momen...
Wayne

The Peculiar Life of the Lonely Postman by Denis Thériault - review

Shy, unassuming Bilodo is a Montreal postman with a secret. Forsaking physical relationships, he chooses to live vicariously through the personal letters he intercepts and carefully s...
Wayne

The Death of the Novel Inscription

While the much-trumpeted death of the novel doesn`t seem to be happening any time soon, I do have a very real fear that we readers stand on the brink of another literary death. For, n...
Ellese

Seizing Seizures, Converting Conversion and Attacking Agency

Sample Foreword In my opinion those who first attributed a sacred character to this disease were the sort of people we nowadays call witch-doctors, faith-healers, charlatans a...
Ruth

The importance of play

I was reading a paper today, published back in 2012, by Dr David Whitebread from the University of Cambridge. The paper is entitled "The Importance of Play" and it is a review of evid...
Ruth

Phonics

If you have children in nursery, pre-school or primary school at the moment, you will no doubt have heard the word phonics. A school or nursery which communicates well might have had ...
Ruth

Spelling

Spelling is something which has been the bane of my life. I was in the generation of children whose primary teachers had been trained that spelling should be "caught, not taught", bu...
Ruth

Helping your teenager with English

Whether you are a home educator or your children go to school you are an integral part of your child`s education. Once they get to the teenage years, however, it can be difficult to k...
Janos

Cancer stem cells display extremely large evolvability

Cancer is increasingly perceived as a systems-level, network phenomenon. The major trend of malignant transformation can be described as a two-phase process, where an initial increase...