Dan Ariely, a professor of behavioral economics at Duke University, presents examples of cognitive illusions that help illustrate why humans make predictably irrational decisions. Increasing numbers of people are using prescription drugs like Ritalin to boost alertness and brain power, say experts. Up to a fifth of adults, including college students and shift workers, may be using cognitive enhancers, a poll of 1,400 by Nature journal suggests. Red full story at TheEng.

The first of our winter rains has come; in the Adelaide Hills the creeks and streams trickle and begin to run, the European trees have lost their leaves and the beautiful eucalypts shimmer in the early winter sunshine. The English Ale is coming and the Spirit of Albion lives on! Saturday May 16th 2015.

The esiest way to learn English. How does it work? Here you can find plenty of drawings that show the different vocabulary terms.

Lunes, 2 de diciembre de 2013. The other day I was very privileged to assist to the presentation of an extraordinary and extremely useful new webpage called fondofwords. This page has been created by a sixth form student, Ivo Sequeros, as a research work and it must be said that it is an admirable project. Jueves, 28 de febrero de 2013.

Is a website dedicated to informing consumers about how the apples they buy in Supermarkets, Greengrocers, Farm Shops and other outlets are grown, harvested and marketed. Give a weekly update on events in our English apple orchards, using pictures and video clips to follow seasonal activities and giving the consumer a level of detail not available from any other source. Varieties grown commercially are relatively few in number, when matched against the 2300 v.