Last year, I made an earnest effort to create a series of posts, categorized as “Catching Up”, that would spotlight some links of interest.  So, I’m resurrecting that and, without planning to, I seem to have hit on the theme of language: An online database of names, HearNames.com lets you type in a name and [...]

Here’s some links from the last week or so that you may have missed and may be worth a look: The longest solar eclipse of the century - some extraordinary images from Boston.com’s “The Big Picture” China Launches Arabic TV Channel – BBC.co.uk reports on China’s launch of an Arabic-language television service for Middle East and North [...]

As a news consumer, I’ve been finding it a little difficult to reconcile today’s (mainstream) media cycle. Over the last few weeks in particular. To think there once was a time when reporters and journalists would file their work usually to meet one or two deadlines over the course of a day. Today, there is [...]