If you’re a fan of gothic literature, horror movies or real-life disinterments, you’ll know that attempts to exhume the dead rarely end well. Think of Dr Victor Frankenstein, the hero of Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel, who sought scientific immortality by cobbling together the body parts of various deceased people and endowing the resulting creature with life. (more ...)
Why Australians are hopeless at learning foreign languages
It’s difficult to find anyone who doesn’t think that the ability to speak a foreign language is a useful skill to have. We are not a nation of nitwits, so why are so many of us rubbish at learning foreign languages? (more ...)
More blog entries to come, as inspiration strikes. Or as perspiration gathers on my brow, precipitated by a self-imposed deadline and the need to pump out compelling copy.
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