A vacation

Yeah. Finally, I am going on vacation next week, probably without the netbook and internet. I will miss for LingQ. But I don't mind to pause a learning process. Listening to English under trees will be more interesting than in the booming city. After recovering I'll back and will continue to study intensively. See you soon. :)

Some crazy ideas in a language learning

In my opinion, everyone should has his/her own methods in a language learning process. As an enthusiastic language learner I have found and developed some unusual ways to increase efficiency in a learning process. And don't know whether it will be useful for you or not. Every one of us is an individual, there are no universal ways to apply.
Music
I think, music one of the great side of the human creativity. Music affects to a brain on a vast scale and creates it again. Our brain is divided into two part: right hemisphere and left hemisphere. The left part is more developed than the right part, because we all virtually are right-handed. And left part of the brain is

What if you could live forever...

I've seen this film yesterday, after 4 years later after the releasing date. Luckily, I got this film in English that was quite impressive.If you are not interested in questions about life, death, and love this film is not for you.
Three parallel stories-about love, death, spirituality, and the fragility of existence as told through the odyssey taken on by one man in his thousand year struggle to save the woman he loves. His epic journey begins in 16-th century Spain, where, as conquistador Tomas Creo, he begins his search for the "tree of life", the legendary entity believed to grant eternal life those who drink of its sap. As a modern-day scientist Tommy Creo, he desperately struggles to find a cure for the cancer that is killing his beloved wife. Traveling through deep space as a 26th astronaut, Tom begins to grasp the mysterious of life that have consumed him more than a century...

Natural resources

I love the laws of thermodynamics, especially the first law. Energy is neither created nor destroyed. We are a part of nature. And we need energy and we have to utilize the natural resources of the earth in order to survive. I'd divide natural resources into two groups: inexhaustible and exhaustible. Most natural resources are exhaustible: for example, fossil fuels such as coal and oil. Humans have been searching for an alternative fuel supply, because using too much fossil fuel cause catastrophic changes such as acid rain, deforestation, widespread loss of water animals and so on. That is why, in my opinion, we have to find an alternative energy source within a short period of time. I hope that Man's mysterious brain will find the solution through using nanotechnology and biotechnology.

Closed logic and its incorrectness

Logic is the most solid column of science and philosophy. Usually, it is being considered the first condition of the intellectual activity.

What is the logic? If I’d define in a few words, it is a relative connection between many causes and many outcomes. For example, 2+3=5, because 3+2=5; because, (1+1+1)+(1+1)=5 and so on. We can make longer these sequences. A common principle that logic has to has a basic. And new ideas form on this basic. That is to say, if you want to be aware of existence of 5, you have to comprehend 1 itself. But, we don’t have to add one million “1” together in order to express a million. There is no difference at all, but cutting into small pieces may complicate our explanation. In other words, we can express a million through 10^6 or 1000^2. Here it comes to the end with the sequence of cause and outcome. Outcome is going to be the cause of the next step. And I think, this is an endless process.  That is true, all logical order can be false, if we couldn’t identify exactly the basic(in my example “1”).  As we know, if we want to express a million we have to use “1”. It is a conditional term. Supposing that if we couldn’t realize “1” precisely,  all logical order in this case would suppose false.

How does an anchor work on a ship?

The anchor prevents a ship from drifting away due to the water currents or tide. A popular misconception is that the anchor itself acts as the main weight to "secure" the ship in its position. On an anchoring run, the ship would lay the anchor together with a length of its iron cables on the seabed. The length to be released would depend on factors such as the depth of the water etc. So it is not the weight of the anchor, but the weight of the huge iron cables connected to the anchor that "secures" the ship.

Genius people about knowledge

Knowledge is power.
Francis Bacon
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
The only source of knowledge is experience.
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
Information is not knowledge. 
Albert Einstein

 The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
Benjamin Franklin

English translations for the Russian word "дурак"

1. fool
2. idiot
3. stupid
4. silly
5. goof
6. imbecile
7. goose
   

Definitions of "through"

through (thr)
prep.
1. In one side and out the opposite or another side of: went through the tunnel.
2. Among or between; in the midst of: a walk through the flowers.
3. By way of: climbed in through the window.
4.
a. By the means or agency of: bought the antique vase through a dealer.
b. Into and out of the handling, care, processing, modification, or consideration of: Her application went through our office. Run the figures through the computer.
5. Here and there in; around: a tour through France.

The most interesting expression of the day

a stubborn unwillingness to give up

It seems interesting for me, why? An unwillingness might be dogmatic :)