by Jamie Chavez | Mar 14, 2011 | Miscellany, Words & Language
Words—and the way they are pronounced—can be such funny things. And people are often passionately attached to their own interpretation, even if they’re … well … wrong. Like the pronunciation of Van Gogh. (Look it up; you may be surprised.) The Irishman and I have done...
by Jamie Chavez | Jul 15, 2010 | Words & Language
Newsweek recently had an article about the aging brain. Some of the news is as bad as you might imagine: reasoning ability peaks at about age twenty-eight (only 6 percent of top scorers are in their fifties, and only 4 percent are in their sixties). Now, I tell people...
