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Have you ever returned from vacation and on your first day back at work asked a colleague, “How was your vacation?” While knowing that what you really wanted was to talk about yours? Think about...

Sports, once the pinnacle of dreams and aspirations for every young man and many young women, need heroes and heroines, need some good news, and need concern for individuals to become a...

So, it’s ‘back to school’ time, once again, for millions of students all over the world, for whom it’s a new year, full of new friends, new possibilities, new challenges and new adventures. At...

Our planet is the most diverse of environments, from its oceans and seas to its rivers and lakes, to its incredible diversity of habitats, its arid deserts, its arctic wastes, its tropical forests, to...

We are born worriers, aren’t we? We can’t seem to help it. Whether we are concerned about things we have done, or worried about our futures, it appears to be a very human state to doubt whether we...

What worries you? What concerns you? It’s probably nothing that would appear on an academic list of global concerns, but will almost certainly be something that is personal and experiential, to you,...

Whether teaching or lecturing, I would always have a ‘road map’ of my lessons on the board, so my students could see where they were going and what they would be doing and to be sure, I would...

I resisted purchasing an electric vehicle, or EV as they are known now, for years, for the most irrational of reasons: I couldn’t stand the arrogance of Elon Musk and couldn’t stand the thought...

Andy Byron, the fifty-year-old CEO of Astronomer, a data and AI giant in Cincinnati, Ohio and Kristin Cabot, the company’s HR chief have, in a perverse sort of way, achieved global notoriety after...

Survival is defined as the state or fact of continuing to live or exist, typically in spite of ordeal or difficulty and its nature being directly proportional to its intensity and its possible...

British statesman Winston Churchill was scorned by the Germans and adored by the British during World War II. A hero! But another of the same name, yet unrelated, was also brave, colourful and heroic!...

How does one fall from the giddy heights of national treasure and international acclaim to the depths of national chagrin and scorn? The praise of the world’s media for then New Zealand Prime...

Journalism’s Identity Crisis and How Engagement Metrics is Distorting Public DiscourseThe controversial phenomenon of ‘clickbait’ has been described variously as harmless, a nuisance, a clever...

This week has taken me on a journey, as Of course, this hasn’t come just ‘out of nowhere,’ but out of a concern, a fear, at the tensions between Israel and Iran, the widening involvement of the...

Actor Christopher Reeve, the actor played the original ‘Superman,’ during the late seventies and the eighties. Off-screen he also proved to be a man of steel, after a horse-riding accident in 1995...

Metaphors, idioms and colloquialisms have become an ever-increasing component of the English language, therefore making it difficult for English as a second language learners to keep their heads about...

How can an ethnic group, rich in culture and tradition, and numbering more than 30 million people, not have a home to call their own? The Kurdish people are a proud people, gentle, yet, in protecting...

Mythology, whether Egyptian, Greek, or Roman mythology, has played a role in all our lives as stories, myths and legends that have influenced us virtually since the beginning of time. The deities,...

Learning English is compulsory in Oman and I believe rightly so. It is the unrivaled global language in the world of business, commerce and finance; and has become the most effective because it is...

We talk too much. So many of us seem to need attention, so we speak what is in, or on, our minds, without having thought through, or processed sufficiently, speaking without thinking those thoughts.Is...