Lingabites
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Learn English with Idioms – Beating a dead horse
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Why We’re Losing the Ground Beneath Our Feet
The Crisis Happening Under Cities Every December 5, the world observes World Soil Day, and this year the message hits closer to home than ever. The 2025 theme is “Healthy Soils for Healthy Cities“, a recognition that the fastest soil destruction isn’t happening on distant farms but right beneath our feet in urban areas. By…
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The Golden Ratio… nature’s obsession with 1.618
The number that shouldn’t exist There’s a number that appears so frequently in nature that Renaissance artists became convinced God had hidden a divine code in creation. It’s approximately 1.618. It has no ending. It never repeats. It’s irrational, which is to say, it cannot be expressed as a simple fraction, no matter how hard…
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Expanding the vocabulary: Suspire
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The mathematics that runs your life
In 1936, a young British mathematician named Alan Turing wrote a paper that most people ignored. It wasn’t about building computers; those didn’t exist yet. It was about something stranger: whether certain mathematical questions could ever be answered by following a set of mechanical steps. The paper was theoretical, abstract, obscure. But buried in it…
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Learn English with Idioms – Barking up the wrong tree
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Expanding the vocabulary: Calque
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Learn English with Idioms – Back to the grindstone
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When the sky falls
On the night of November 12, 1833, the stars began to fall. Not metaphorically. Not in some poetic sense. They actually fell, or appeared to, by the tens of thousands, streaking across the sky in every direction, so many that people stopped counting and started praying. Some thought it was the end of the world.…
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Expanding the vocabulary: Colloquial