I am often asked why English is such a difficult to learn for non-native speakers. In fact, how hard it is to learn depends on what your native language is; and this follows as languages are more (or ...

In the half-light before sunrise, when the land still belongs to shadows and silence, Sri Lanka’s wilderness begins its ancient ritual of awakening. A solitary leopard melts into the golden grasses of ...

There are currently ∼7,000 different living human languages. The peak of language diversity may have been ∼10,000 years ago when up to 20,000 different languages might have been spoken. Languages ...

Python still holds the top ranking in the monthly Tiobe index of programming language popularity, leading by more than 10 percentage points over second-place C. But Python’s popularity actually has ...

I made a summary of The Correspondent to remind you of the plot, characters, and important moments in the book for your next ...

I have spent a lot of time lately thinking about how we handle noise. It feels like we’re living in a time where everyone is ... Read More ...

Hello and welcome to another edition of the Weekly Vine. In this week’s edition we look at the dog controversy at the AI summit, decode Marco Rubio’s civilisational erasure warning for Europe, the ...

The structure of a text is how it is organised and how its parts fit together. Writers structure their texts deliberately to have an effect on the reader. Exam questions ask you to comment on how ...