11 Jul 2006
Carlos do Amaral Freire, a Brazilian linguist, easily translates 60 languages, including Chinese, Portuguese and Sanskrit. Is he a genius? A freak of nature? Surprisingly, Freire probably isn’t much different from your average bilingual. more…

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11 Jul 2006
While playing with little boats he’s made from various board games: Captain: Take us to the Corner of Doom! First Officer: No, take us to the other Corner of Doom!

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11 Jul 2006
So look who I found on the blogosphere today… Weirdly, the very first post starts off, “Well its been more than awhile since I posted in this blog….” Im hoping new tracks will be posted from time to time ;@)

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10 Jul 2006
Tips from marathoner Brandon Seils such as “Get High”, “Pain is your friend” and “Break through the wall“: For most runners, there’s a wall at the three mile mark. This goes for the most beginner runners up to and probably including the long-time marathoners. The first three miles of any run are the most difficult

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06 Jul 2006
in stores now Reuters: A Dutch design student bored with conventional advertisements has set up a fake online agency offering advertising space for beer, cars and TV stations on prostitutes’ thighs and cleavage. On his website www.instoresnow.nl, Raoul Balai also proposed painting brand names on zoo animals and floating huge billboards off popular beaches to

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