Planning for a trip is always an exciting endevour.  The intended traveller read books and guidebooks, surf the web, read blogs, make notes, comparisons etc.  But as time progresses, the trip always evolves, more than once.For years (since discovering B

Llama Photo by Wil Macaulay. We've long been talking of a trip to Ecuador, but I had serious doubts whether it would happen. But as of last Friday, we have tickets. These are probably the messiest set of tickets I've ever had to book. I was buying

You can't help wondering what direction your life might have taken, had things been different. I still wonder sometimes, even after all these years. I also wonder how history is recorded. The current occasion that caused me to wonder is the image

A recent study of “bilingual” Chinese-English speakers found that they subconsciously “resort to” their native language. In this case all of them had acquired ...

Pity the poor economists amongst us. They spend their days looking at graphs, crunching numbers and thinking about things that leave most of us in a zombie state with drool hanging out of our mouths. Is it any wonder that when t ...

A second-year participant in the EPIK program in Korea recently published an article in the Korea Times (thanks to Tesall.com for the link) essentially saying ...

Immersion leaves native language speakers tongue-tied might just provide an explanation for my absentmindedness with English language vocabulary. Near the end of this post ...

If you find the science of human origins fascinating and you're not afraid of hard, dirty, tedious work, signing on to work as an archaeological ...

One of the things I always do in preparation for a vacation is to research the public transportation system and create a little “notebook” to ...

For a long time now, you've probably wondered why you never made it to the big time in football. Why someone like Wayne Rooney was able to go on to stardom, while you are lucky to see playing time in your Sunday league games. It ...

I hate being unprepared. Let me rephrase that: I hate looking like I don’t know what I’m doing. I suppose it is ...

I’m finally back from Kiev. Actually, I’ve been back for two days, but I’ve been occupied with the Cricova champaign that I brought back ...

Germany is off to its best World Cup start in 32 years and if you are to believe that scientific research at least part of ...

There have been a few games this World Cup where my heart has felt like it was going to jump out of my chest during ...

Indonesia is the world's second largest crude palm oil producer after Malaysia. Palm oil is one of the main export commodities of Indonesia with output ...

American scientists are lining up to do research in Indonesia. Whether its volcanoes, new species or ancient cultures you are interested in, Indonesia has got ...

Yesterday we stayed on the ICIPE site all day, which I predicted might be outrageously dull, but actually turned out to be a really interesting ...

It's January. I won't be leaving until May. I don't even have the money for my trip. And I'm overplanning. I've been crazily researching on the ...

Thanks to a very successful ecotourism program whale sharks – the world’s largest fish – are positively thriving in WA’s Ningaloo Reef, reports Ecological Applications