Category: Interesting links

A collection of common English idioms explained for speakers of English as a second language.

Chicken soup not good for colds; yawning not contagious; water drains backwards in the southern hemisphere LiveScience.com demolishes your illusions.

A lengthy report in the New York Times Magazine discusses whether making school meals healthier makes children healthier.

A new mother posts on Ask Metafilter that she worries her newborn baby doesn’t like her (and that she doesn’t like the baby much either). It sparks off a thoughtful and insightful set of responses about post-natal depression (post-partum mood disorder).

I done posted to Metafilter.

and, no, it’s not the Gulf Stream.

What more can I say? An excellent parody (I hope) of fake mysticism.

Metafilter discusses the decline of manual transmission in the US.

Everything you wanted to know about 666, courtesy of absoluteastronomy.com.

The excellent Damn Interesting tells the story of the Citicorp building on Lexington Avenue, an imposing New York skyscraper, which due to a minor change of plan during construction, was almost blown down by the wind.